La Fayette, IL

La Fayette is a village in Stark County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 160 residents. La Fayette is located south of Kewanee along IL 17. La Fayette is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. A newcomer can read La Fayette through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, La Fayette comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Once a prominent strip coal mine and farming village with a general store, high school, hotel, bank, grain elevator, train depot, and many other features and amenities.