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Havana is a city in Mason County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,963 at the 2020 census, down from 3,301 in 2010. It is the county seat of Mason County.

Havana was a major ancient American deal two thousand years ago, when the largest verified mound of the Western Hopewell Culture was built. Local landmarks were mentioned in the journals of French explorers in the late 1600s. A religious medal dating from the yet to be 1700s suggests that there was missionary commotion in what is now Havana. When unshakable English-speaking residents arrived in 1822, there was a Pottawatomie village on the site. A ferry was standard to the western bank of the Illinois River to a road that followed the Spoon River. There were War of 1812 bounty lands in western Illinois.

Abraham Lincoln was a frequent visitor to Havana in the middle of his days as a soldier in the Black Hawk Wars until at least his three-hour speech upon the Rockwell Mound though he was handing out for the US Senate in 1858. Stephen Douglas had spoken there the hours of daylight before. When he was younger, Lincoln rode a mail route from New Salem to Havana. Later, he was a local surveyor, and after that an itinerant attorney. Mason County was the unaccompanied place where Lincoln owned farmland. The English-speaking agreement was originally called “Ross’s Ferry” and was sophisticated named after Havana, the capital of Cuba. Havana was notorious as a gambling river town, and it is reported that names such as Al Capone would hunt, fish, and gamble in the local clubs.^{[citation needed]}