Campus is a village in Round Grove and Broughton townships, Livingston County, Illinois.

[3] Campus was laid out and platted by Charles William Sheldon (1839–1911) in April 1880, along the Wabash Railroad on his farm of 640 acres (260 ha).

[4]: 168  [5] Sheldon was a farmer and he owned the first business in town, Campus Brick & Tile Co.

Other businesses at that time included Ole Nelson and Thomas Connors' livery stable.

The town also had street lights, cement sidewalks, an electric light plant and tile drains, which were great improvements for such an isolated rural town in those early years.

[4]: 170  Joseph Zeller (1918–2018), Pennsylvania businessman and state legislator, was born in Campus.

[6] The present brick building on Elm Street was begun in June 1983 and completed a year later.

[4]: 170 In 2024 the village was awarded $1.3 million from the USDA and U.S. Representative Robin Kelly for water system improvements.

According to the 2010 census, Campus has a total area of 0.09 square miles (0.23 km2), all land.