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Streator is a city in LaSalle and Livingston counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city is situated upon the Vermilion River nearly 81 miles (130 km) southwest of Chicago in the prairie and farm land of north-central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population of Streator was 12,500.

Although settlements had occasionally existed in the area, they were not permanent. In 1824, surveyors for the Illinois and Michigan Canal which would extend from Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood to the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, arrived in this Place of the Vermillion River, followed by homesteaders by the 1830s. In 1861, miner John O’Neill traditional a trading pronounce called “Hardscrabble” (ironically an in front name for the Bridgeport neighborhood), supposedly because he watched loaded animals struggle going on the river’s banks. Another state for the new treaty was “Unionville”.

Streator established its current publish to tribute Worthy S. Streator, an Ohio industrialist who financed the region’s first coal mining operation. Streator normal a town charter in 1868 and incorporated as a city in 1882. In 1882 Col. Ralph Plumb was elected as its first mayor. Streator’s early addition was due to the coal mine, as without difficulty as a major glass manufacturer and its status as a midwestern railroad hub. Today Streator’s economy is led by heavy-equipment manufacturer Vactor, food distributor U.S. Foodservice and glass bottle manufacturer Owens-Illinois.