{"id":34963,"count":1,"description":"Du Quoin is a city in Perry County, Illinois, United States. The population was 6,448 at the 2000 census.\nDu Quoin is located at 38\u00b00\u203225\u2033N 89\u00b014\u20326\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff38.00694\u00b0N 89.235\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 38.00694; -89.235 (38.006815, -89.234885).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.9 square miles (18\u00a0km), of which, 6.9 square miles (18\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26\u00a0km) of it (1.01%) is water.\nDuQuoin was named after Chief Jean Baptiste Ducoigne of the Kaskaskia, an Illiniwek people, who were defeated by the Shawnee near here in 1802.\nIn the early 19th century, Du Quoin was near the Lusk's Ferry Road, an important early road that connected Kaskaskia with Lusk's Ferry on the Ohio River. The road ran easterly out of Steeleville to a point southwest of DuQuoin. There it turned to the southeast to cross the Big Muddy River and head for Lusk's Ferry.\nThe area east of Du Quoin is known as \"Old Du Quoin.\" The City of Du Quoin was founded in 1853 as the people of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/du-quoin\/","name":"Du Quoin","slug":"du-quoin","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=34963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}