Ritchie is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

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(CDP) in southern

Will County Will County is a county in the northeastern part of the state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 696,355, an increase of 2.8% from 677,560 in 2010, making it Illinois's fourth-most populous county. The county sea ...

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. It is located along Forked Creek and

Illinois Route 102 Illinois Route 102 (IL 102) is a state route in northeast Illinois. It runs from IL 53 in Wilmington to the concurrency of U.S. Route 45 (US 45) and US 52 in Bourbonnais, just north of Kankakee. This is a distance of . ...

, three miles southeast of the city of Wilmington in Wesley Township. Ritchie is home to several dozen houses, the Wesley Township hall, a church, a grain elevator, and the house of the founder of Ritchie. His house is located at the eastern entry into Ritchie along Illinois Route 102. A railroad track passing through the community was dismantled in the 1990s, but the bridge that carried it over Forked Creek and Route 102 remains. Ritchie was founded by the Leasure's, Butler's and Warriner families. There used to be a museum of the families but it burned down.

Demographics

Ritchie first appeared as a

in the 2020 U.S. Census.

2020 census

Education

It is in the Wilmington Community Unit School District 209U.
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Unincorporated communities in Will County, Illinois Unincorporated communities in Illinois {{WillCountyIL-geo-stub