| Collison | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Illinois |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Vermilion |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Subdivision Name3: | Pilot |
| Pushpin Map: | Illinois#USA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Collison within Illinois |
| Coordinates: | 40.225°N -87.8039°W |
| Elevation Ft: | 689 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CST |
| Utc Offset1: | -6 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 406387 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 61831 |
| Area Code: | 217 |
Collison is an unincorporated community in Pilot Township, Vermilion County, Illinois.
Collison is located at 40.225°N -87.8039°W.
In the short story "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" by David Foster Wallace, which appears in his short story collection Girl With Curious Hair, the town of Collision is the site of a fictional McDonald's commercial shot in 1970 and the location of a present-day reunion by ex-McDonald's commercial actors on which the story hinges. Wallace creates a fantastical origin story for the town involving a wealthy Chicago woman driving in a southward direction who accidentally hits, and kills, a farmer in a tractor and decides, in a fit of guilt, to make a home out of her crashed car, thus kickstarting the town of Collision into existence. In an extra bit of satirical irony, the manslaughtered farmer is Ray Kroc, Sr.- father of McDonald's "founder" Ray Kroc.