Piper City is a village in Ford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 826 at the 2010 census.

Piper City is located at 40°45′24″N 88°11′22″W / 40.75667°N 88.18944°W / 40.75667; -88.18944 (40.756749, -88.189560).

According to the 2010 census, Piper City has a total area of 0.55 square miles (1.42 km), all land.

Piper City was laid out in 1867 by Samuel Cross of New York and William A. Piper (5 March 1820 – 6 July 1896) of Philadelphia. The native plat was named Brenton. It was a station on the Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad, which had been completed ten years earlier. The gift name of the town, which was adapted soon after the town was founded, comes from Piper who had extensive home holdings in the area. Cross lived briefly in the township, but Tiny is known of his life. An earlier railroad siding and grain station known as Brenton had been acknowledged two miles to the east of the eventual location of the town. The supplementary station was hence briefly known as New Brenton. The Original Town lay on both sides of the railroad and the streets were aligned taking into consideration the railroad, which was angled slightly away from real north-south. John Allen and W. C. Jones opened the first collection in Piper City the summer of 1867. A second amassing called Piper, Montelius and Company was operated by J.A. Montelius, Piper’s nephew, but it is indistinct if Piper was actually a resident in the supplementary town. The first Post Office was in the home of John R. Lewis, who had been a house agent for the Illinois Central Railroad. A Presbyterian Church was conventional in 1869, a Catholic church in 1880 and a Methodist church in 1881. In 1870, Montelius time-honored a bank and was, for many years, the leading citizen of Piper City. In 1887, B.W. Kensey began the Piper City Journal. In 1924, when the people of Piper City scholarly that a supplementary highway, soon to be known as U.S. 24, would pass a quarter mile south of the town, a delegation was sent to the bureaucrat to protest. They were unsuccessful. The town has been an important grain shipping narrowing for the rich agricultural land of the pan handle of Ford County.