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==Government and infrastructure== The [[Illinois Department of Corrections]] operates two prisons in the county. [[Pontiac Correctional Center]] is located in Pontiac.<ref>"[http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/facilities/information.asp?instchoice=pon Pontiac Correctional Center]." [[Illinois Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on September 1, 2010.</ref> Pontiac houses the male death row. Prior to the January 11, 2003, commutation of death row sentences, male death row inmates were housed in Pontiac, [[Menard Correctional Center|Menard]], and [[Tamms Correctional Center|Tamms]] correctional centers.<ref name="IllinoisDR">"[http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/news/doc_report/archive/doc_report_online_03_07_03.shtml DOC Report Online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718225214/http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/news/doc_report/archive/doc_report_online_03_07_03.shtml |date=2011-07-18 }}." Illinois Department of Corrections. Retrieved on September 1, 2010.</ref> [[Dwight Correctional Center]] is within [[Nevada Township, Illinois|Nevada Township]] in an [[unincorporated area]] in the county.<ref>"[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US1721358&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on Dwight village, Illinois]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." [[U.S. Census Bureau]]. Retrieved on September 1, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/facilities/information.asp?instchoice=dwi Dwight Correctional Center]." [[Illinois Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on September 1, 2001.</ref> The Dwight Correctional Center is currently unoccupied and was closed in 2013. ===Politics=== Although it was solidly Democratic before 1856, Livingston has since always been a powerfully Republican county. The solitary Democrat to win a majority of the county's vote since [[American Civil War|the Civil War]] has been [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in his 1932 landslide triumph over [[Herbert Hoover]]. Apart from that and the 1912 election when Woodrow Wilson won against a mortally divided Republican Party, Livingston has always voted Republican since that party was founded in 1856. Since 1940, only [[Lyndon Johnson]] in his 1964 landslide victory over the conservative [[Barry Goldwater]] has won more than forty percent of the county's vote. {{PresHead|place=Livingston County, Illinois|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|11,970|4,311|340|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|12,208|4,615|391|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|10,208|4,023|1,111|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|9,753|5,020|304|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|9,191|6,189|289|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|10,316|5,632|91|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|9,187|5,829|405|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|7,653|5,641|1,494|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|8,004|6,007|3,087|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|10,324|5,009|72|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|12,291|4,567|61|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|11,544|4,111|1,168|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|10,097|5,174|369|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|13,217|5,110|12|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|11,963|5,234|963|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1964|Republican|10,239|8,476|0|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|13,139|6,642|2|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|13,939|5,197|7|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|14,095|5,612|20|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1948|Republican|11,184|5,618|74|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|12,436|6,231|52|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1940|Republican|13,909|7,722|55|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1936|Republican|10,801|9,190|343|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|8,403|10,024|162|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|11,161|5,737|94|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|9,695|2,911|2,419|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|10,382|3,101|391|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1916|Republican|9,801|6,462|451|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|2,444|3,334|3,480|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|5,358|3,778|460|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|6,018|2,785|662|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1900|Republican|5,805|4,024|378|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|5,436|4,068|208|Illinois}} {{PresFoot|1892|Republican|3,980|3,960|605|Illinois}}
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