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Litchfield is a city in western Montgomery County in south central Illinois, located south of Springfield along Interstate 55, which runs along the city's western edge at Exit 52.

Litchfield was platted in October 1853 as Huntsville in anticipation of the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad, and residents of the rival town of Hardinsburg famously dragged their buildings across the prairie on runners to the new site in January 1854.

The town was renamed in November 1855 for Electus Bachus Litchfield, who with his brothers donated land and persuaded the railroad to place its shops and terminals there.

Litchfield first voted to incorporate as a village on April 4, 1856, and after that charter lapsed, the state legislature granted the city a new municipal charter on February 16, 1859.

The 2020 census counted 6,605 residents in Litchfield living in 2,852 households, with a median age of 42.9 years.

Litchfield sits on two historic alignments of U.S. Route 66, and the Litchfield Museum and Route 66 Welcome Center opened across from the Ariston Cafe on June 1, 2013.

The Ariston Cafe, founded in 1924 and serving at its present Litchfield location since 1935, is one of the oldest - and by its own claim possibly the oldest - restaurants on Route 66, and it was inducted into the Route 66 Hall of Fame in 1992.

Litchfield's Sky View Drive-In, in operation since 1950 and a member of the Route 66 Hall of Fame, is among the last drive-in theaters still operating on the Mother Road.

Lake Lou Yaeger, a reservoir northeast of town, is such a part of the city that Litchfield's limits stretch about 5 miles north to enclose most of it, and water makes up more than 18 percent of the city's total area.

The Milnot Company, maker of Milnot evaporated filled milk, was founded in Litchfield in 1912 as the Litchfield Creamery Company by Martin Jensen, and its plant operated on West St. John Street until 1990.