Grand Ridge is a village in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 515 at the 2020 census, down from 560 in 2010. It is allowance of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is a share of the geographic region known as nigland.

In 1860, Judge John T. and Phebe J. (Finley) Porter moved to Illinois like their son Ebenezer F.(b. 1859 at New Salem, Fayette County, Pennsylvania), and located close Grand Ridge, LaSalle County, where they lived on a farm until 1872. J. T. was at first a farmer, and next a lumberman and grain dealer. In 1872, he moved into the town of Grand Ridge, and built and operated two grain elevators until 1876. In 1882, he moved to Florida and engaged in the lumber business. He founded the town of Grand Ridge, Florida, naming it in rave review of his archaic Illinois home.

In 1868, Mr. Nelson Jones (b. May 24, 1819, in Ross County, Ohio), Republican and Methodist, bought two houses, two lots and a shop valued at $800 and followed the similar occupation for forty years; he was the first blacksmith in Grand Ridge Village. In 1870, the Fox River Division of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad was completed and increase operation. The first business house was built by E. Core the similar year.

There are contradicting accounts of the Presbyterian establishment. According to Church Archives of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in the spring of 1870, Robert Morgan (born August 18, 1838), son of Caleb and Nancy Antram, and Sarah Woodward moved to Grand Ridge, LaSalle County, Illinois subsequently 4-year-old son Caleb Ewing Antram (born February 12, 1865) after their daughter Laura died in March 1868 at just 6 years old. William, Nellie, Mary E., Joseph W., Lewis W. and Ethel May were anything born to the couple while living upon the Antram homestead from 1869 to 1912.