Ritchie, IL

Ritchie is an unincorporated community and census designated place in southern Will County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 190 residents. Ritchie is located along Forked Creek and Illinois Route 102, three miles southeast of Wilmington in Wesley Township. Ritchie is home to several dozen houses, the Wesley Township hall, a church, a grain elevator, and the house of the founder of Ritchie. Ritchie's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Illinois setting. The local scoop is how Ritchie's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. His house is located at the eastern entry into Ritchie along Illinois Route 102.