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Cypress is a village in Johnson County, Illinois, that began developing around 1898 as a stop on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, built on part of J. H. Lowery's farm.

The village's name most likely comes from the tall cypress trees that grow in the nearby Cache River bottoms, in the heart of southern Illinois's Cache River basin.

Cypress inherited a post office that had operated for years at Gray's Mill east of the present village — earlier still called the Lincoln Green post office — which was moved to the new railroad town.

Cypress stands about seven miles southwest of Vienna, the Johnson County seat, in what a 1925 county history called some of the best farming country in the county.

Cypress Grade School was built in 1917 and served the village for 85 years until a tornado damaged it on April 28, 2002; a replacement school was completed about four years later.

The village's population peaked at 438 in the 1920 census, when Cypress had two physicians and the Farmers and Merchants State Bank, organized in 1908.

The 2020 census counted 217 people in 86 households in Cypress, across a village area of about 0.76 square miles.