Kansas is a village in Kansas Township, Edgar County, Illinois. The population was 670 at the 2020 census.
History
A post office called Kansas has been in operation since 1855. The town was named after the Kansas Territory.
In or before 1972, students and their physical education teacher at the high school invented a game called Deckerball. This has been credited as being the possible origin of the very similar game Wallyball.
Geography
Kansas is located in southwest Edgar County approximately 1.2 miles from the Edgar-Coles county line. The community is at the intersection of Illinois routes 16 and 49 approximately ten miles southwest of Paris.
According to the 2010 census, Kansas has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
As of the 2020 census
Notable people
- John Honnold (1915–2011), former law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School