HOOPESTON, a city of Vermilion county, Ill., U.S.A., loom. S. of Chicago. It is served by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois and the Nickel Plate railways. The population in 1920 was 193o it was 5,613. Grain, hay and live stock are shipped in large quantities. The city has grain elevators, machine shops, corn canning plants with an annual output of over 800,000 cases, and factories making cans, canning machinery, malleable iron and chemicals. It was settled about 187o and incorporated in 1874.