Mattoon City Hall is located at 208 North 19th Street, Mattoon, Illinois 61938. Phone: 217‑235‑5511.
The city of Mattoon is located in the east-central Illinois county of Coles approximately fifty miles west of Indiana’s western boundary and fifty miles south of Champaign-Urbana in Champaign County. The original town located in Mattoon Township was platted in the early 1850s in speculation of the domestic and industrial growth expected from the anticipated crossing of the Terre Haute&Alton and Illinois Central rail lines in eastern Mattoon Township. Located within the fertile prairie drained by the Embarras and Kaskaskia Rivers’ watersheds, the community rapidly evolved after the June 1855 crossing of the rail lines into a significant agricultural production center, complementing the local industrial economy generated by the railroads. Possessing a contemporary (2017) population of approximately 18,000, the city of Mattoon and its adjacent environs remain a significant agricultural production base and transportation hub possessing two rail lines, access to Interstate 57, US Route 45 and three State of Illinois highways.