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Morton is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States.The population was 17,117 at the 2020 census.Morton is a suburb of Peoria, located southeast of Peoria, and is part of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Morton Pumpkin Festival is an annual four-day festival held in mid-September in Morton, Illinois since 1967. The event now draws more than 75,000 attendees annually. [ 1 ] It is organized and sponsored by the Morton Chamber of Commerce.
Morton, Illinois, a sleepy hollow outside Peoria, calls itself the ‘Pumpkin Capital of the World’ and has the patches to prove it.
Eureka had styled itself the "pumpkin capital of the world" until its pumpkin-processing plant moved to nearby Morton, Illinois. The Reagan Museum and Peace Garden at Eureka College is a top tourist attraction in the community, especially after the 2010-2011 renovation of the Museum and of the Reagan special collection section at Melick Library ...
Illinois is the top producer of pumpkins in the U.S. Morton, Illinois, claims to be the pumpkin capital because 99% of the world's canned pumpkin is produced in Morton. Oct. 26 is National Pumpkin ...
The Pumpkin Festival may be Morton's signature event, but the community apparently offers far more to upscale home buyers. Of the 10 most expensive homes sold last month in Tazewell County, seven ...
Moline calls itself the "Plow Capital of the World." This list of city nicknames in Illinois compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that Illinois cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
Illinois produced 41 percent of the nation’s pumpkin yield in 2020.