The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusRitchie is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in southern Will County, Illinois, United States. It is located along Forked Creek and Illinois Route 102, three miles southeast of the city of Wilmington in Wesley Township. As of the 2020 census, Ritchie had a population of 190. Ritchie is home to several dozen houses, the Wesley Township hall, a church, a grain elevator, and the house of the founder of Ritchie. His house is located at the eastern entry into Ritchie along Illinois Route 102. A railroad track passing through the community was dismantled in the 1990s, but the bridge that carried it over Forked Creek and Route 102 remains. Ritchie was founded by the Lea…
Half of its homes were built before 1938.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Ritchie yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Ritchie’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ritchie’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Ritchie, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Ritchie is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Ritchie has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Eagle Hotel in Wilmington, 4 miles away.
Ritchie and the nearest listed places
Closest to Ritchie
Eagle HotelWilmington · Built 18384mi
Small-Towle HouseWilmington · Upright and Wing4miAlternate Route 66, Wilmington to Joliet (Additional Documentation)Elwood · Structure10.3mi
White and Company's Goose Lake Tile WorksGoose Lake · Site12.2mi
White and Company's Goose Lake Stoneware ManufacturyGoose Lake · Site12.4miHow a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.