Map of La Fayette village, Illinois

La Fayette (named after Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, pronounced locally “Lay – fay – et”) is a village in Stark County, Illinois. It is located south of Kewanee off Route 78 on Route 17|IL-17 (Madison Street). The population was 223 at the 2010 census, down from 227 in 2000. It is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Once a prominent strip coal mine and farming village with; a general store, high school(until 1970), hotel, bank, grain elevator, train depot, and many other features and amenities. Once the coal mines shut down and railroad was removed in the early 1980s, it slowly became a low income and high poverty village with many people moving away and it eventually diminished to the hollow shell of what it once was.

La Fayette village overview:
Name:	La Fayette village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Illinois
County:	Stark County
Total Area:	0.19 sq mi (0.49 km²)
Land Area:	0.19 sq mi (0.49 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	160
Population Density:	846.56/sq mi (327.15/km²)
Area code:	309
FIPS code:	1740676

Online Interactive Map

La Fayette online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.