The oldest and least known lost village in Macon County is Murpheysboro (with an "E") in Friends Creek township. It was just south...

Sag Bridge was a village that is now part of the Village of Lemont. It had a hotel and its own post office, a number of businesses, a railro...

Bayville was a village in Pike County, Illinois that flourished on Bay Creek about a mile southeast of the present site of Pleasant Hill, Il...

The Illinois River port of the Village of Montezuma is located in Pike County, Illinois. In 1880 Montezuma had a population around 100. The ...

The benefits of maple trees growing in this native timber area were likely enjoyed long before the Funk family settled in 1824. History has ...

Indian Creek Village is within today's DeKalb County's Shabbona Lake State Park, located north of Ottawa and approximately 6 miles w...

Evans (aka Evans Point) was in Marshall County, Illinois, on the old Chicago & Alton railroad grade.  Evans Township is traversed by two...

Greenridge is located in Nilwood Township, Macoupin County, on Rt 4, two miles north-north-east of Nilwood. It was right next to a railroad ...

The exact location is unknown, but I believe it is very close to Peoria, Illinois. Stacknikville is a desolate ghost town in Tazewell County...

Ledford was an unincorporated community in the Harrisburg Township, Saline County, Illinois. Ledford  was located just south of Harrisburg, ...

Horace has suffered the ultimate indignity: its name is misspelled on Illinois maps as "Harris." It appears to have been a small f...

Fillmore is a ghost town in Bourbon Township, Douglas County, Illinois, that was located one mile northeast of Chesterville. Compiled by Dr....

Bourbonais is a former settlement in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. Bourbonais was located in Concord Township, along the Burlingto...

Wilson was an unincorporated community in southern Warren Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. The community was located along Il...

Although the Big Creek upper watershed is open space now, it was one of the first points settled by Euro-Americans in the 1820s in what beca...

Tracy is a ghost town in Essex Township, Kankakee County, Illinois. Tracy was a relatively small settlement, amounting to about a dozen buil...

When the Indians were sporting over the prairies of Illinois and wolves were prowling through the forests, William Totten placed his family ...

Tedens is a ghost town in Lemont, Downers Grove Township, DuPage County, Illinois. John Henry Tedens (1833-1899) operated a department store...

Tacaogane was a former settlement in Massac County, Illinois. It was shown on the 1684 map of Louisiana by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, w...

Sylvan was a former settlement in Cass County, Illinois, located two and one-half miles west-southwest of Newmansville.  A few old farmhouse...