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Beecher is a village in Will County, Illinois, situated in the center of Washington Township on the old Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad and the Dixie Highway.

The community was originally named Washington Center, and it was founded in 1870 and incorporated as a village in 1884.

Beecher was named for Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous American orator of his day, by T. L. Miller, a Chicago insurance man who began buying land in Washington Township in 1862 to breed and raise Hereford cattle and greatly admired Beecher.

The 2020 census counted 4,713 people in Beecher, the village's highest population ever.

Beecher was one of the fastest-growing communities in the Chicago suburbs during the 2000s, with its population more than doubling between 2000 and 2010.

Recent Census Bureau survey estimates put Beecher at roughly 1,740 households with an average household size of about 2.7 people.

Beecher's median household income is over $100,000 according to recent Census Bureau survey estimates, well above the Illinois average.

The village hired its first village administrator in 1988 to handle daily operations, after more than a century of being governed only by a village president and board of trustees.

Beecher sits in far southern Will County, keeping a small-town, farming-rooted character even as the Chicago metropolitan area has grown toward it.