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Carlock is a village in northwestern McLean County, Illinois, and part of the Bloomington–Normal Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Carlock was laid out on January 5, 1888 by John Franklin Carlock, who used an 80-acre tract of his own farmland along the railroad to plat the town — making Carlock one of the last towns platted in McLean County.

Carlock succeeded the earlier settlement of Oak Grove, about a mile and a half away, where a post office named Oak Grove had been established in 1866; the community took the Carlock name in 1889.

The 2020 census counted 548 people in Carlock, nearly unchanged from 552 in 2010, when the village had 219 households.

Carlock has grown steadily over the decades, rising from 318 residents in 1960 to 456 in 2000 as Bloomington-Normal expanded.

The village covers just 0.41 square miles along U.S. Route 150, the highway between Bloomington and Peoria.

Carlock Elementary School, located in the village, is part of McLean County's large Unit District 5 based in Normal.

Carlock once had its own Carlock High School, home of the Eagles, which operated from 1916 until 1948 before students were sent to larger neighboring schools.

Growth continues on Carlock's northeast side in the Stoneman Gardens subdivision, a roughly 65-lot development begun after the USDA bought the land in 2004.