The first settlers arrived in the Chatham area in 1816. The village of Chatham received its name October 22, 1836.
Chatham is located in what was once open prairie between Lick Creek and Panther Creek in Sangamon County, which at that time was about the center of the new state of Illinois, approximately ten miles south of Springfield.
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