Raymond, IL

Raymond is a Montgomery County village in central Illinois, with 949 residents in the 2020 census. Illinois Route 48 passes through as O’Bannon Street, running west about three miles to Interstate 55 at Zanesville and northeast toward Taylorville. That highway connection gives the village a practical place in the farm country between Springfield and the smaller communities of Montgomery County. Broad Street carries the Panhandle Community Unit School District offices, and Lincolnwood Senior High School sits at the center of the education map.

Raymond is part of the Panhandle district, which formed in 1947 by bringing together a wide rural area with villages, farms, highways, water systems, and volunteer services. Students from Raymond and nearby towns share that district’s long geography, while the village keeps its own main streets, businesses, and municipal routines. The surrounding Kaskaskia River country shapes the wider county, even though Raymond’s strongest daily signal is the road and school connection. Raymond is an Illinois village where a state highway, a consolidated rural school district, a high school town center, and the farm landscape of Montgomery County meet.