Farmer City, IL

Farmer City sits in DeWitt County along the prairie and woodland country around Salt Creek. Kickapoo and Potawatomi communities lived in the area before settlers arrived around 1825, and the town later went through several names before citizens chose Farmer City in 1869. That name gives the place a direct connection to the land around it, even though the city’s present-day school story reaches across nearby communities. Farmer City shares Blue Ridge Community Unit School District 18 with Mansfield and Bellflower. The local shorthand is Salt Creek, prairie settlement, a debated town name, and a school district spread across three small Illinois places.