Lowell is an unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.

Lowell is located on Illinois Route 178, 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Oglesby.

[2] Its most famous resident was Benjamin Lundy, a fiery Quaker abolitionist who came to Illinois to be the successor of Elijah Lovejoy, recently murdered for his anti-slavery beliefs.

Lundy published the paper, Genius of Universal Emancipation from Lowell.

[3] The town declined and today offers river rafting.