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McNabb is a village in Putnam County in north-central Illinois, and it is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area.

McNabb owes its existence and its name to a railroad: in 1900 the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad wanted a station in Magnolia Township, and county judge Hon. J. M. McNabb promoted the project, so the resulting station and town were named after him.

McNabb's post office opened in 1900, the same era the railroad arrived, yet the village was not formally incorporated until August 4, 1959.

McNabb had a population of 275 at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 342 residents in 1980.

At the 2000 census, McNabb's 310 residents lived in 125 households.

McNabb covers only about 0.2 square miles of land, which made it a surprisingly dense little village, with about 1,549 people per square mile in 2020.

Just outside McNabb stands the Clear Creek Meeting House, one of the few surviving western Quaker meeting houses, which once hosted local abolitionists such as Benjamin Lundy.

In its early years McNabb had a bank called the Farmers' Bank of McNabb, managed by Judge McNabb himself, along with a thriving Danish church.