Beaverville (formerly St. Marie) is a village in Beaverville Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 362 at the 2010 census.

In 1851, 32 families from the area of Montreal, Canada, mostly newlywed or single, came taking place the St. Lawrence River in search of farmland on the prairie. They traveled across the Great Lakes and stopped at Fort Dearborn (Chicago). Then they pushed south through the swamps and frontier until they reached the area that is now Beaverville. The settlement, named “St. Marie,” was led by Francis Besse, who became a general merchant. The bureau consisted of families subsequent to names such as Fortin, Dionne, Boudreau, Benoit, Nourie, Lafond, Lemna, and at least six Arseneau families. They approved here because of the great land and the many creeks.

In 1905, the village pronounce was tainted to “Beaverville”, when the village founders realized that there was substitute town in Illinois named St. Mary. The further name was inspired by the loads of beavers in the Place in the at the forefront 19th century, when Beaver Lake right across the be next-door to in Indiana still existed.

Beaverville is house to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, known as the “Prairie Cathedral” or the “Cathedral of the Cornfields”. Built in 1909, the structure is recorded in the National Register of Historic Places and is large plenty that its red, clay-tile roof can be seen from several miles away.