Herrin is a city in Williamson County, Illinois. The population was 12,352 at the 2020 census.
The city is allocation of the Marion-Herrin Micropolitan Area and is a part of the Carbondale-Marion-Herrin, Illinois Combined Statistical Area following 123,272 residents, the sixth most populous Combined statistical Place in Illinois.

The agreement of Herrin started out as scattered settlers on Herring’s Prairie named for the first permanent settler Isaac Herring, a Baptist preacher. Later, his son-in-law David Herrin arrived and the resemblance in names led to the eventual shortening of the reveal to just Herrin’s Prairie. The trails from Jordan’s fort to Humphreys’ ford upon the enormous Muddy River intersected the passй trail from Lusk’s ferry at modern-day Golconda to Kaskaskia, which was first contracted by French colonists.

Isaac Herring entered the first estate in what became Herrin on 4 November 1816, two years before Illinois became a state. He paid $2 an acre for the 160 acres (65 ha). At the grow old he lived to the west in Jackson County, the land entry was the northeast quarter off Section 30, Township 8 South, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian. Today that Place runs amid 17th and 27th streets, and from West Cherry Street upon the north to West Stotlar Street on the south.

David Ruffin Harrison started storekeeping upon the prairie in 1858. During the Civil War, he built a frame growth building and secured a fourth class read out office that opened on May 26 1864. After coal was discovered and mining began in user-friendly Carterville, Harrison, and his cousins Ephraim Snyder Herrin and Mrs. Williams in 1892 prospected for coal beginning at the southwest corner of Williams’ farm, identified in 1939 as the corner of Legion Blvd and E Herrin St. (Legion Blvd no longer appears on the maps, but the mention indicates the intersection was the North and North East public roads. The 1908 county atlas shows North East Public Road two blocks east of Park Avenue which would make it North 13th Street). “The men put occurring the cash, Mrs. Williams boarded the workers. A Good vein of coal was found at 185 feet.”