Ladd is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,236 at the 2020 census. It is share of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area. Ladd is most known for Rip’s Tavern (which serves not quite 1,200 orders of fried chicken upon a lively night), and for a Vietnam War tank located in the center of its park.

The deal was originally named Osgood after the superintendent of the Whitebreast Fuel Company. The Whitebreast Fuel Company, based in Ottumwa, Iowa was the major coal supplier for the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. They set taking place the town in 1888. Ladd was incorporated upon June 7, 1890, and was founded by George D. Ladd, a resident of Peru, Illinois. Ladd was originally named Laddville. The Ladd mine went bankrupt in 1901 and was purchased by the Illinois Third Vein Coal Company, owned by Samuel Dalzell of Spring Valley. At its height, the mine employed over 700 men and took an average of 1200 tons of coal a day from the ground. As a coal mining town, it is ethnically diverse subsequently immigrants from Italy, Ireland, and Poland taking jobs at the mine. The mine closed in 1924.

In 2015 the village celebrated its 125th anniversary. The local grade university was replaced in the summer of 2003; prior to that the grade bookish occupied the building that originally housed Hall High School until the new scholarly was build up in 1911 in Spring Valley, at which mature the old tall school became the additional Ladd C.C. School which had since been a Tiny three-room building astern the tall school.

Ladd is located at 41°22′53″N 89°12′58″W / 41.38139°N 89.21611°W / 41.38139; -89.21611 (41.381264, -89.216056), one mile north of Interstate 80 on Illinois Route 89. It is located in the midst of the village of Cherry to the north and the city of Spring Valley to the south.