Percy, IL

Percy is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, with 906 residents in the 2020 census. Its municipal history reaches back to an April 14, 1887 incorporation date recorded by the Illinois State Archives. The village occupies less than one square mile, and its population has moved through several different scales: 660 in 1900, 1,280 in 1920, and 906 a century later. That rise and retreat gives Percy a readable small-town timeline even when the modern map looks compact.

The county still treats Percy as one of its named communities, and Village Hall at 201 West Pine Street serves as a local public stop. The County Journal has been published in Percy since 1980, giving the village a newspaper connection that reaches beyond its borders. Randolph County's wider story runs through French colonial settlement, the Kaskaskia-Cahokia Trail, railroads, and the Mississippi, and Percy sits inside that older southern Illinois landscape. The local scoop is the scale change: a village that counted 1,280 residents in 1920 now carries its civic life in a compact grid, a village hall, and a newspaper with deep local roots.