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Reddick is a village lying mainly in western Kankakee County, in northeastern Illinois, with a small portion extending into Livingston County.

The village grew up where two railroads, both built around 1879, crossed each other, and it was originally known as Reddick Station.

Reddick was platted in 1880 and incorporated in 1890, at which point it already had a population of 400.

Coal had been discovered under the land north of Reddick back in the 1860s, helping to draw settlers and business to the crossing.

By 1895 Reddick's businesses included a tile factory, two grain elevators, two hotels, a general store, a millinery and dressmaker shop, lumber and coal yards, a livery stable, a barber shop and a blacksmith.

Reddick's first school was built in 1902 with two rooms and a library staffed by two teachers, and the village's first electric plant opened in 1906.

In the 1980s, Highway 17 was rerouted to bypass Reddick, and in the early 1990s the village's railroad tracks were pulled up and the rail bed converted into a bike trail.

The 2020 census counted 199 people in Reddick, while the 2000 census counted 219 people living in 80 households and 60 families.

Children from Reddick attend schools in Herscher Community Unit School District 2.

Reddick straddles two statistical areas: its Kankakee County portion belongs to the Kankakee-Bradley metropolitan area, while its Livingston County portion belongs to the Pontiac micropolitan area.