De Land is a village in Piatt County, Illinois, United States.

[3] The origination of the name De Land has disputed sources, most tracing back to either James DeLand, who helped bring the railroad to the area in 1872, or French DeLand, a surveyor who is said to have laid out the town.

[3] In 1912 a Carnegie Library was opened in De Land with $8,000 provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, after a group of citizens including Tom McMillen, a local bank employee, and Lucy Thornton, the president of the Women's Club, raised public support for the project.

In 2002, the De Land board of trustees acknowledged that it had passed a sundown town ordinance decades earlier.

The racial makeup of the village was 98.4% White, 1.1% Hispanic, 0.9% 2+ races, 0.4% Asian, and 0.2% Black.