🇺🇸 Morton is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. Morton is a suburb of Peoria and is part of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located south-east of Peoria. The community holds an annual Morton Pumpkin Festival in the second week of September, and claims that 82 percent of the world's canned pumpkin is produced in Morton, earning it the designation "Pumpkin Capital of the World".