Town file
Morton, Illinois
Morton, Illinois is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 293, "All Book, No Cover" (18 June 2022). Morton, Illinois sits close to the middle of the state, roughly halfway between Peoria and Springfield and between St Louis and Chicago.
- Town
- Morton
- State
- Illinois
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 293
- Approximate location
- 40.614, -89.467
Episode 293 / 18 June 2022 / 65 min / express
All Book, No Cover
"we are going to morton illinois ... it is kind of right smack in the middle of illinois, between Peoria and Springfield" about 0:02:51
The case: Murder of Mary Fierer (December 6, 1984). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2022
- Population
- 16,232
- Median household income
- $77,000
- Median home value
- $204,100
- Violent crime
- ▼ about half the average
- Property crime
- ▼ about half the average
The reviews read out
3 stars
"Overall a cool experience if you were an athlete and musician in high school, with a calm, family-based atmosphere, but no reason to live there as an adult."about 0:04:27
3 stars
"A pretty safe town known for being full of wealthy white people, with some middle class to poor people and, as the reviewer puts it, a few coloured people; the school system is nice until high school."about 0:06:37
2 stars
"Not lots of choices and no real nightlife."about 0:07:45
2 stars
"Very clicky, rude to special people groups, and a terrible place to live if you are anything but white and heterosexual."about 0:08:00
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Mount Zion, Illinois65 miles
- Davenport, Iowa88 miles
- Kankakee, Illinois90 miles
- Muscatine, Iowa100 miles
- Keokuk, Iowa103 miles
- Quincy, Illinois111 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.