Crossville is a village in White County, Illinois, United States.

[3] The town's existence is closely tied to the opening of the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad on December 9, 1872.

In 1853 the Vincennes and Paducah Railway Company was formed for the purpose of creating a railroad through the area, but that venture was unsuccessful.

In 1857 the Illinois Southern Railway Company took up the idea, with a plan that originally contemplated routing the railroad through Phillipstown, but local land owners Stephen Fitzgerald and Solomon Charles refused to donate land to the Railway.

[6] On February 28, 2017, an EF3 wedge tornado touched down in Crossville, damaging the village as it passed through, resulting in one fatality.

The racial makeup of the village was 97.70% White, 1.15% Native American, and 1.15% from two or more races.