Middleport, IL

MIDDLEPORT, a thriving post-village, capital of Iroquois county, Illinois, on the Iroquois river, at the junction of Sugar creek, 150 miles E. N. E. from Springfield. It contains a court house and numerous stores. Population in 1853, about 800.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

MIDDLEPORT  A thriving post village, capital of Iroquois county, on the Iroquois river, at the junction of Sugar creek, 150 miles east-north-east from Springfield and about 90 south from Chicago, It contains a court house and several stores, and is a place of considerable business. Population, about 2,400.  (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)