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Nora is a village in Jo Daviess County in far northwestern Illinois, lying in the township of the same name at an elevation of about 1,007 feet.

According to the Chicago & North Western Railway's 1908 history of place names, Nora was named by a railroad official for a female settler, while another early source says the short name was chosen because the place itself was quite small.

Nora's post office opened in 1852, and the village still uses ZIP code 61059.

Nora was far bigger in the nineteenth century than it is today: the 1880 census counted 333 residents, more than three times the current population.

The 2020 census counted just 107 residents in Nora, down from 121 in 2010.

At the 2000 census, Nora's 118 residents lived in just 53 households.

For years the village had its own Nora Elementary School, whose athletic teams were nicknamed the Navahos; school consolidation closed it in the early 1980s and the building was converted into apartments.

Nora children now attend school in the Warren Community Unit School District 205.

The entire village covers only 0.83 square miles, all of it land.