income for the village was $20,928. About 5.0% of families and 10.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.8% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over. Government and infrastructure The Illinois Department of Corrections Dwight Correctional Center, which closed in 2013, was in Nevada Township in an unincorporated area in Livingston County, near Dwight. The correctional center housed the State of Illinois female death row. Other sites Dwight is also home of the first Keeley Institute and the Frank L. Smith Bank. Dwight station, a train station designed in 1891 by Henry Ives Cobb, operated continuously from the spring of 1892 until October 2016 when a new station opened several blocks away. The original station is now the home of the Dwight Historical Society Museum and the Dwight Chamber of Commerce. The Dwight Veterans' Administration Hospital occupied the triangular-shaped block between Main Street, Mazon Avenue, and Prairie Avenue. Part of the facility was built in 1891 for the Keeley Institute. In 1930 it became the Dwight V.A. Hospital, and an addition opened on May 11, 1947, with a modern surgical suite, wards, clinic, and physical therapy facilities. The buildings survive and are partially occupied by the Fox Developmental Center. Sadie planned a trip to Dwight in the "Sadie's Trip to Dwight" episode of the radio serial Vic and Sade, originally aired on June 4, 1937. The series, set in a vaguely fictionalized Bloomington, Illinois, often used towns near Bloomington in its scripts. Notable people Hannah Tracy Cutler, abolitionist Tim Lee Hall, congressman from Illinois; taught in Dwight Clay Harbor, National Football League player and Reality TV star; raised in Dwight Art Mathisen, college basketball star at the University of Illinois; born in Dwight Diana Oughton, student activist and member of the Weather Underground; born in Dwight; died in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970 Frank L. Smith, congressman from Illinois James G. Strong, congressman from Kansas; born in Dwight Mabel Trunnelle, early film actress; born in Dwight Jerry Weller, congressman from Illinois Harold Jensen Christopher, killed in action on the USS Nevada (BB-36) during Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941; born in Dwight References External links Village of Dwight official website Villages in Livingston County, Illinois Villages in Grundy County, Illinois Villages in Illinois Populated places established in 1854 1854 establishments in Illinois