Cardiff

Cardiff is a ghost town in Livingston County, Illinois, situated in Round Grove Township between the villages of Campus and Reddick. It began as a coal mining town in 1899 and experienced rapid growth in its early years before the mine closed in 1912, after which the community steadily faded away.

Today Cardiff exists as a ghost town, and visitors should arrive with modest expectations. There are no documented trails, preserved structures, or developed facilities noted for this site — what remains is primarily the historical footnote of a once-active coal mining settlement absorbed back into the rural Illinois landscape.