Durand is a village in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. It is allocation of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area The population was 1,443 at the 2010 census, up from 1,081 in 2000.

Its township’s beginnings initiated originally in a no longer existing harmony called Elton, an Place South of Durand and including parts of the Pecatonica and Rock Run townships and fixed in 1835 by Nelson Salisbury, Harvey Lower, and Scott Robb. They and nine supplementary families settled the Southwest allocation of objector Durand, Pecatonica, and Rock Run area. Durand gave birth to Illinois’ first tax-supported volunteer flame department. Since its settlement, Durand has been prone to devastating fires. Durand’s upfront flourishings were contiguously linked to the increase of the Racine-Mississippi Railroad sophisticated absorbed into Western Union. The extraction reached Durand in 1857, en route to Freeport, paving the shift from the Elton community into ahead of its time Durand and deriving its reveal from the railroad’s first president, H.S. Durand. At this time, Durand saw the coming on of its prosperity which entailed the demise of the Elton settlement.

Durand is located at 42°26′2″N 89°19′41″W / 42.43389°N 89.32806°W / 42.43389; -89.32806 (42.433928, -89.328007). It is located 14 miles by road north of US Route 20 on Illinois Route 70. Illinois Route 75 also runs south of town.

According to the 2010 census, Durand has a total area of 0.94 square miles (2.43 km), all land.