Malta is a village in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

Shortly afterwards, the name was changed to Etna, then Malta after the Galena Railway station that served the village.

[3] Malta was the site of the first "seedling mile" of concrete pavement for the transcontinental Lincoln Highway in 1914.

Seedling miles were built to demonstrate construction techniques and generate support for the highway.

The pavement extended from the Malta cemetery at the west edge of town to near the present location of Kishwaukee College.

Malta struggled financially until the end of World War I, when an influx of new residents to the area arrived.

A few individuals in the vicinity have their own businesses that involve carpentry, plumbing, landscaping, and animal control.