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Pearl is a village in Pike County, Illinois, sitting along the Illinois River on Illinois Route 100.

The village is named after the pearl buttons that were drilled from the large supply of native mussels that once lived in the nearby Illinois River.

Although settlers arrived in the Pearl area as early as 1824 and 1825, the town of Pearl itself was not laid out until 1855, and its post office opened the same year.

Pearl was incorporated on October 6, 1894.

Pearl boomed during the river-mussel button era, reaching a peak population of 928 in the 1890 census before beginning a long decline.

Pearl had just 103 residents at the 2020 census, a fraction of its 19th-century peak.

At the 2000 census, Pearl's 187 residents lived in 75 households, with 96 housing units in the village.

Pearl covers about 1.59 square miles, roughly 5 percent of which is water from the Illinois River side of the village.

In late 2014, Pearl officially adopted the Case IH 766 farm tractor as the official town tractor.

Pearl was the hometown of Dave Altizer, a major-league shortstop who played for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds.