Editing Chester, Illinois (section)

==Claims to fame==
On April 11, 1842, [[Charles Dickens]], the author of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' and ''[[Great Expectations]]'', visited Chester with his wife.<ref name="lesson">{{cite web| url=http://www.chesterill.com/index.php?id=23|title=A Bit of a Chester History Lesson| publisher=City of Chester| access-date=2011-01-05}}</ref> [[Mark Twain]], the author of ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'', a pilot on the Mississippi River between 1857 and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], supposedly on many of his trips stayed at Chester's Cliff House, a fine river hostelry. Twain also mentioned the blue windows of Chester's Cohen Home, visible from the Mississippi, in his book ''[[Life on the Mississippi]]''.<ref name="lesson"/>

The [[List of United States post office murals#Illinois|Chester post office]] contains a federally commissioned mural, ''Loading the Packet'', painted by [[Fay E. Davis]] through the [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]], later called the [[Section of Fine Arts]], of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]]. A former postal employee favored the mural so strongly that he said if the building should catch fire, the mural should be saved rather than the mail.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Reeves|first1=Ryan|title=Restoration Project|journal=Illinois Issues|date=December 2002|volume=28|issue=12|pages=26–32|url=https://archive.org/stream/illinoisissues282002sang#page/32/mode/1up/search/Loading+the+Packet|access-date=7 March 2017|publisher=University of Illinois at Springfield|location=Springfield, Illinois|issn=0738-9663}}</ref>

Chester was the filming location of scenes from the 1967 movie ''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)|In the Heat of the Night]]'' and was only mentioned in the 1993 movie ''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/List?endings=on&&locations=Chester,%20Illinois,%20USA&&heading=18;with+locations+including;Chester,%20Illinois,%20USA |title=Titles with locations including Chester, Illinois, USA |access-date=2008-10-18 |work=IMDB.com }}{{Dead link|date=July 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>