Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

Established:		February 27, 1837 (Laws, 1837, p. 33)
Origin of the name of the county:
	Named for Edward Livingston, a lawyer and statesman, Mayor of the City of New York, Representative in Congress from New York and later from Louisiana, United States Senator from Louisiana, Secretary of State under Jackson, and United States Minister to France.
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
	1831–1837	LaSalle
	1831–1837	McLean
	1826–1837	Vermilion
	1827–1831	Tazewell
	1821–1827	Fayette
	1823–1826	Edgar
	1819–1823	Clark
	1816–1819	Crawford
	1815–1816	Edwards
	1812–1815	Madison
	1801–1812	St. Clair
	1790–1801	Knox, Northwest Territory
County Seat:
	1837–	Pontiac
History of county governing board:
	1837–1849	County Commissioners’ Court
	1849–1858	County Court
	1858–	County Board of Supervisors
Township Government
	Adopted:	November 3, 1857
Township Names:
	Amity
	Avoca
	Belle Prairie
	Broughton	Name changed from Broughtonville on October 3, 1860.
	Charlotte	Formed from Saunemin in 1865.
	Chatsworth	Name changed from Olivers Grove on October 11, 1859.
	Dwight
	Eppards Point
	Esmen
	Fayette	Formed from Belle Prairie on February 22, 1870.
	Forrest	Formed from Chatsworth as Forrestville in 1861; renamed Forrest in 1865.
	Germanville	Formed as Germantown from Chatsworth in September, 1868; name changed to Germanville on July 22, 1879.
	Indian Grove	Name changed from Worth on May 11, 1858.
	Long Point
	Nebraska
	Nevada
	Newtown
	Odell
	Owego
	Pike
	Pleasant Ridge	Formed from Saunemin in April, 1859.
	Pontiac
	Reading
	Rooks Creek
	Round Grove
	Saunemin
	Sullivan	Formed from Saunemin in 1863.
	Sunbury
	Union	Formed from Odell in 1864.
	Waldo	Formed as Kansas from Nebraska on September 12, 1860; the name was changed to Waldo because of a name conflict with a township in another county.