Junction is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.

A major flood in March 1997 displaced several area residents and blocked all but one road leading into the village.

[5] On June 1, 2022, Junction General Baptist Church burned down after lightning struck the steeple.

[6] The Hickory Hill mansion, almost five miles west of Junction, is the 19th-century home of illegal slave trader and slave breeder John Hart Crenshaw.

[8] The village lies along Illinois Route 13, a few miles west of the Ohio River, and north of the Shawnee National Forest.