According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Clinton has a total area of 3.54 square miles (9.17 km2), all land.

The two men were on their way from Decatur, Illinois back to Bloomington after a business trip and stopped to rest their horses on the open prairie halfway between the two cities.

[6] Clinton is on the 8th Judicial Circuit, on which Abraham Lincoln traveled, along with Judge David Davis, for twenty years.

The house was purchased and improved by lawyer Clifton H. Moore in the 1880s, and is now the DeWitt County Museum.

These books would make up the first collection of the Vespasian Warner Public Library, founded by and named for Moore's son-in-law.

Lincoln's collected papers has a version of the speech taken from a contemporary copy in the Bloomington Pantagraph which doesn't contain it.

[citation needed] As of the 2020 census[2] there were 7,004 people, 3,102 households, and 1,676 families residing in the city.