Wilmington
Wilmington is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States. Located on Illinois Route 53 and Historic U.S. Route 66 along the east bank of the Kankakee River, it is approximately 60 miles south-west from downtown Chicago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,660 residents
- Description: city in Will County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “City of Wilmington”, “Wilmington, IL”, “Wilmington, Illinois”, “Wilmington, Will County, Illinois”, and “Winchester”
- Postal code: 60481
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gemini Giant.
Gemini Giant
Photo: Skyring, Public domain.
The Gemini Giant is a landmark statue on U.S. Route 66 in Wilmington, IL. Now installed at the entrance to the South Island Park, the statue previously stood outside the Launching Pad Restaurant from 1965 to 2024.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lakewood Shores and Custer Park.
Lakewood Shores
Hamlet
Lakewood Shores is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Will County, Illinois, United States. The population was 665 at the 2020 census. Lakewood Shores is situated 2 miles south of Wilmington.
Custer Park
Hamlet
Custer Park is an unincorporated community and census designated place in Will County, Illinois, United States. Custer Park is located on Illinois Route 113 and the south bank of the Kankakee River 4.5 miles east-southeast of Braidwood. Custer Park is situated 4½ miles south of Wilmington.
Braidwood
Village
Braidwood is a city in Will and Grundy counties, Illinois, United States, approximately 53 miles southwest of Chicago and 18 miles south of Joliet. The population was 6,191 at the 2010 census. Braidwood is situated 4½ miles southwest of Wilmington.
Wilmington
- Categories: city in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Wilmington Township, Will, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.3079° or 41° 18′ 28″ northLongitude
-88.14683° or 88° 8′ 49″ westPopulation
5,660Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WQGOpen location code
86HH8V53+57OpenStreetMap ID
node 8365925016OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wilmington” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويلمينغتون، مقاطعة ويل (إلينوي)”
- Arabic: “ويلمينغتون”
- Basque: “Wilmington”
- Cebuano: “Wilmington”
- Chechen: “Вилмингтон (Вилл гуо, Иллинойс)”
- Chechen: “Вилмингтон”
- Chinese: “Wilmington”
- Chinese: “威爾明頓 (伊利諾伊州威爾縣)”
- Chinese: “威爾明頓”
- Danish: “Wilmington”
- Dutch: “Wilmington”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويلمينجتون”
- French: “Wilmington”
- German: “Wilmington (Illinois)”
- German: “Wilmington”
- Gilaki: “ویلمینگتن (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “ویلمینگتن”
- Haitian: “Wilmington, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Wilmington”
- Irish: “Wilmington”
- Italian: “Wilmington”
- Japanese: “ウィルミントン (イリノイ州)”
- Japanese: “ウィルミントン (イリノイ州ウィル郡)”
- Japanese: “ウィルミントン”
- Ladin: “Wilmington”
- Mazanderani: “ویلمینگتون، ویل (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “ویلمینگتون، ویل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wilmington”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilmington”
- Persian: “ویلمینگتون، شهرستان ویل، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “ویلمینگتون”
- Polish: “Wilmington”
- Russian: “Уилмингтон”
- Serbian: “Вилмингтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wilmington, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wilmington”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویلمینقتون، شهرستان ویل، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Wilmington (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Wilmington”
- Swedish: “Wilmington, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Wilmington”
- Tatar: “Вилмингтон (округ Вилл, Иллинойс)”
- Tatar: “Вилмингтон”
- Ukrainian: “Вілмінгтон”
- Urdu: “ولمنگٹن، ویل کاؤنٹی، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “ولمنگٹن، ویل کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Wilmington (Will County”
- Uzbek: “Wilmington, Will County”
- Uzbek: “Wilmington”
- Uzbek: “Wилмингтон (Wилл Cоунтй”
- Vietnamese: “Wilmington, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Wilmington”
- Welsh: “Wilmington, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Wilmington”
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