Live Webcams in Freeport

Freeport is a small city on the Pecatonica River in northern Illinois, the seat of Stephenson County and a two-hour drive west of Chicago, and the live webcams in Freeport show a Midwestern county town through its seasons: parks and ballfields in summer, the river and its bridges, and the long flat light of the prairie around it. Some 24,000 people live here. Freeport keeps Central Time, UTC−6, UTC−5 in summer, so its afternoon falls in the European night. The town's place in history came on 27 August 1858, when Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas met here for the second of their seven debates, and a statue of the two men marks the spot. Summers are warm and humid, winters bring snow from December, and October turns the trees along the river.