Chester
Chester is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Illinois, United States, on a bluff above the Mississippi River. The population was 7,640 at the 2020 census. It lies 61 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,840 residents
- Description: city in Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Chester, IL” and “Chester, Illinois”
- Postal code: 62233
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaskaskia.
Kaskaskia
Village
Photo: C. Houchin, CC BY 3.0.
Kaskaskia is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, on the west side of the Mississippi River. The population of Kaskaskia was 21 in the 2020 United States census, making it the third-least populous incorporated community in Illinois behind Valley City and Florence. Kaskaskia is situated 5 miles west of Chester.
Chester
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Randolph, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.91366° or 37° 54′ 49″ northLongitude
-89.82205° or 89° 49′ 19″ westPopulation
7,840Elevation
669 feet (204 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CSIOpen location code
869GW57H+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 153702008OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Chester” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشيستر”
- Azerbaijani: “Çester”
- Basque: “Chester”
- Catalan: “Chester”
- Cebuano: “Chester”
- Chechen: “Честер”
- Chinese: “Chester”
- Chinese: “切斯特”
- Croatian: “Chester”
- Dagbani: “Chester”
- Danish: “Chester”
- Dutch: “Chester”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيستر”
- French: “Chester”
- German: “Chester, Illinois”
- German: “Chester”
- German: “Home of Popeye”
- Gilaki: “چستر (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “چستر”
- Greek: “Τσέστερ”
- Haitian: “Chester, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Chester”
- Hungarian: “Chester”
- Ido: “Chester, Illinois”
- Ido: “Chester”
- Irish: “Chester”
- Italian: “Chester”
- Japanese: “チェスター”
- Ladin: “Chester”
- Mazanderani: “چستر (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “چستر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chester”
- Newari: “चेस्टर (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “चेस्टर, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “चेस्टर, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “चेस्टर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chester”
- Persian: “چستر، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “چستر”
- Polish: “Chester”
- Portuguese: “Chester”
- Russian: “Честер”
- Serbian: “Честер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chester, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chester”
- South Azerbaijani: “چستر، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Chester”
- Swedish: “Chester, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Chester”
- Tatar: “Честер”
- Turkish: “Chester, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Chester”
- Ukrainian: “Честер”
- Urdu: “چیسٹر، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “چیسٹر”
- Uzbek: “Chester”
- Uzbek: “Честер”
- Vietnamese: “Chester, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Chester”
- Volapük: “Chester”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chester, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chester”
- Welsh: “Chester, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Chester”
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