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Pontiac is a city in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. The population was 11,931 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Livingston County. The town is also the setting of the 1984 movie, Grandview, U.S.A.
People in group quarters in Clinton County, Illinois in 2000: 1,530 people in state prisons; 380 people in nursing homes; 329 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded; 33 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups) 33 people in other nonhousehold living situations