Homer is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Its population was 1,073 at the 2020 census.

Homer grew from a settlement named Union, which was upon the Fort Clark or State Road management between Danville and Urbana, nearly three miles north of the gift town. Union was Tiny more than several cabins built in 1829-30, but it served as a declare office and meeting place in what was Vermilion County prior to the introduction of Champaign County in 1833. Moses Thomas, a native of Pennsylvania, built a mill upon the Salt Fork creek southeast of Union in 1834 and began to mill grain. A teenage merchant traveling from Indiana, Michael Doctor Coffeen, built a store adjoining the mill, and past Thomas created the village of Homer upon January 26, 1837. The state office was moved to Homer subsequently M. D. Coffeen as postmaster in 1841.

Homer grew to 120 people in 1850, and the coming of the Great Western Railroad to the south of the town prompted the village to shape to its gift location. In February 1855, the town’s 32 buildings were dragged 1.5 miles south by 18 teams of oxen. The village became a stop on the railway, later named the Wabash Railroad, becoming the middle of agriculture in eastern Champaign County.

In 1905, the town became the location for Homer Park, an amusement park on the Illinois Traction System interurban line. Homer Park, north of the village on the Salt Fork creek, offered swimming, food, baseball, movies and even a small zoo. The park closed in 1937 after flooding and poor management.