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Chester is a city in and the county chair of Randolph County, Illinois, United States, on a bluff above the Mississippi River. The population was 6,814 at the 2020 census. It lies 61 miles (98 km) south of St. Louis, Missouri.

Samuel Smith is said to be the town’s founder because he built the first home in Chester, established a ferry system, and began the construction of a mill in 1829. The town was named after Chester, England, the city from where his wife Jane Smith was from. The first thing in Chester was a general deposit that opened in 1830 along following a castor oil press usual by R. B. Servant, who furnished farmers when seed and growing methods to later buy the beans they produced for oil extraction. This was a flourishing business until the petroleum industry made it obsolete.
The first wedding in the town of Chester was held upon February 4, 1834. Content Walker, the bride and Amzi Andrews, the groom held their wedding in a 16 feet square log cabin.

The H.C. Cole Milling Company was founded by Nathan Cole in 1839. It started out as a small sawmill as soon as a corn-grinding addition which encouraged the townspeople to plant grains, and in a rude time the first Cole flour mill was built. The mill still exists in Chester but it is now operated by Ardent Mills. Nathan Cole as a consequence brought the first electric generator to Chester and used the surplus of capability from the mill to feint street lights. This was a modern user-friendliness that was not even clear in Chicago at that point. The generator is now upon display at the Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.