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Dwight is a village located mainly in Livingston County, with a small portion extending north into Grundy County.

Dwight was laid out on January 30, 1854, by three railroad engineers - Richard Price Morgan Jr., James C. Spencer and John Lathrop - and it was named for Henry A. Dwight Jr., the financier who raised the money to build the railroad.

Dwight preserves an original stretch of historic U.S. Route 66 - the Chicago-to-Springfield road through town was paved in 1921 and designated Route 66 in 1926.

Dwight's railroad depot, designed in 1891 by architect Henry Ives Cobb, was used continuously as a passenger station from 1892 until 2016.

The First National Bank of Dwight was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1905 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ambler's Texaco Station, built in 1933 at the corner of Route 66, serviced Mother Road travelers until 1999 and is now a restored Route 66 landmark.

In 1879 Dr. Leslie Keeley opened his famous Keeley Institute in Dwight, and its treatment for alcoholism drew hundreds of thousands of patients from around the world, including Elliott Roosevelt, brother of President Theodore Roosevelt.

The John R. Oughton House, home of Keeley's business partner, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and a historic windmill still stands on the former Oughton estate.

In 1930 the state of Illinois established the Oakdale Reformatory for Women in Dwight, which later became the Dwight Correctional Center.

Dwight had 4,032 residents at the 2020 census, and the 2000 census counted 1,667 households in the village.