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Wetaug, Illinois
Wetaug
Wetaug
Wetaug, Illinois is located in Illinois
Wetaug, Illinois
Wetaug, Illinois
Location in Illinois
Wetaug, Illinois is located in the United States
Wetaug, Illinois
Wetaug, Illinois
Location in the United States
Country United States
State Illinois
County Pulaski
Elevation
358 ft (109 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 618
GNIS feature ID 420979

Wetaug is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Illinois, United States. Wetaug is located along Old U.S. Highway 51 south of Dongola and north of Ullin. The community, established in the mid-1850s as a stop along the Illinois Central Railroad, was named for Weatogue, Connecticut, though local folklore long suggested it had been named for a Cherokee chief who had died in the area during the Trail of Tears march in the late 1830s.

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