Sorento, IL

Sorento is a village in Shoal Creek Township, Bond County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 429 residents. Sorento is part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sorento is also considered part of the Metro East region of Illinois. An annual homecoming usually lasting for two days is held every summer normally during August. A major arts and crafts festival known as the Sorento Fall Festival is held in downtown Sorento each autumn, usually on the first Sunday in October. Sorento was home to the now closed Sorento Elementary School which educated students ages pre-K through 8th grade.

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Sorento Elementary was a 2011 Blue Ribbon school, one of only 19 schools in Illinois and 304 in the entire United States. The through line in Sorento is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Sorento makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Sorento was founded as a village in 1882. The town was laid out and platted on August 15, 1882, by August H.