Caledonia, IL

Caledonia is a village in Caledonia Township, Boone County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 183 residents. Caledonia is part of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. A post office was established as Caledonia Station in 1853, one year before the settlement was established. The only school in Caledonia is Caledonia Elementary School, after which students go to one of Belvidere's or Poplar Grove's middle schools. Caledonia's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Illinois setting. The local scoop is how Caledonia's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Caledonia Station was shortened to Caledonia in 1883.