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Heyworth is a village in southern McLean County, Illinois, and is part of the Bloomington-Normal Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Heyworth was laid out by Campbell Wakefield on September 11, 1859, after Wakefield had assembled about 1,500 acres and donated land to bring an Illinois Central Railroad station to the site.

Heyworth nearly had a different name: when the station opened in 1856 it was called Elmwood, but that name was already taken by a town in Peoria County, so the president of the Illinois Central proposed naming it for Lawrence Heyworth, an English director of the railroad, which became official on March 29, 1858.

The village of Heyworth was incorporated on March 31, 1869.

Before settlement, the Heyworth area was heavy timber and underbrush inhabited by the Kickapoo people and supporting large numbers of deer, wild turkeys, and packs of gray wolves, and the first settler families arrived as early as 1824.

Heyworth had a population of 2,791 at the 2020 census, living in 1,028 households, and nearly 40 percent of its households include children under the age of 18.

Heyworth grew from just 300 residents in 1870 and jumped by nearly 50 percent in the 1990s alone, reaching 2,431 people in 2000 as it became a commuter village for Bloomington-Normal.

U.S. Route 51 passes along the west side of Heyworth, about 12 miles south of Bloomington, the McLean County seat, while U.S. Route 136 runs through the center of the village.

Kickapoo Creek flows through the western part of Heyworth on its way southwest to Salt Creek and the Sangamon River.

Heyworth's children attend Heyworth Elementary School for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade and Heyworth Jr/Sr High School for grades 7 through 12, both in the village.