Divernon is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,172 at the 2010 census, and 1,119 at a 2018 estimate. It is portion of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.

A read out office has been in operation at Divernon since 1887. The village took its publish after Di Vernon, a setting in the novel Rob Roy. From 1900 to 1925, Madison Coal Company operated a large coal mine that caused quick growth within the village. Since the recess of the mine the town has experienced a slow subside in population. The construction of the mine included the excavation of a large reservoir, locally known as the ‘Resi’, that is an integral allowance of the towns culture to this day. The reservoir is the host to the annual cardboard boat regatta.

On July 4, 1976 a local resident, George “Donald” Becker, fired a cannon that he had machined himself to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States declaring independence from Great Britain. The cannon was designed to creation a little projectile, also machined by Becker, a few dozen feet. Becker had underestimated the amount of powder he loaded in his homemade cannon however and the resulting freeing launched an approximately two-inch projectile higher than six hundred feet. The cannonball traveled across a baseball field, through complex fences and storage buildings and forlorn stopped following it entered a house and struck the homeowner “Lucky Bug” in the shoulder while he was eating dinner past his family, knocking him out of his chair. “Lucky Bug” was unharmed and speedily deduced that his neighbor had afire his cannon as he had seen Becker working on it in his shop and spoke afterward him not quite it. The Divernon Police Department confiscated the cannon and contacted the FBI. FBI agents visited the house of Becker to speak with him more or less the weapon he had created. While speaking taking into account Becker at his home, “Lucky Bug” arrived taking into consideration the cannonball and defended Becker stating that he had knew Becker for decades and that the damaged caused was very unintentional. The FBI agents definitely with his conclusion and Becker was not charged. “Lucky Bug” kept the cannonball and carried it subsequently him for the get out of of his vigor remarking that he was the and no-one else person struck gone a cannonball in Divernon and survived.

Divernon is located at 39°33′58″N 89°39′21″W / 39.56611°N 89.65583°W / 39.56611; -89.65583 (39.566208, -89.655718).