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Petersburg is a city in and the county seat of Menard County, Illinois, United States, on the bluffs and share of the floodplain overlooking the Sangamon River. It is allocation of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,258 at the 2020 census, nearly unchanged from 2010. Petersburg is located nearly 2 miles (3 km) north of New Salem, the indigenous location where Abraham Lincoln first settled, as he started his career.

The town began as a planned community organized by real estate speculators Peter Lukins (for whom the town is named) and George Warburton. Abraham Lincoln worked as the surveyor who first mapped, measured and back to divide lots upon the land. Petersburg speedily grew, due to an advantageous placement on the river, becoming the county chair in the 1830s and eventually drawing off the population of New Salem, which was forlorn in 1840.

Many of the lush Victorian-era homes built by early rich inhabitants nevertheless stand upon the bluffs of Petersburg. The town itself takes great pride in these structures, which has even preserved some of the original cobblestone streets to auxiliary the classical architecture.