Olivet, IL

Olivet is a census-designated place in Elwood Township, Vermilion County, Illinois. The 2020 census counted 336 residents. Olivet was designed around the Nazarene school. The site for the school was purchased in 1908. Illinois Holiness University was founded 1909 in Olivet, changing to Olivet College in 1923. The College left the campus in Olivet after a fire destroyed the main building in 1939. That mix gives Olivet a clear local shape within Illinois, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. Olivet includes the school then moved to Bourbonnais.