| Official Name: | Posen, Illinois |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Illinois#USA |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Illinois |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Washington |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Subdivision Name3: | Bolo |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 489 |
| Coordinates: | 38.2583°N -89.3356°W |
| Area Code: | 618 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 423082 |
Posen is an unincorporated community in Bolo Township, Washington County, Illinois, United States. Posen is 6.4miles southeast of Nashville. Since 1901, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, a member of the Diocese of Belleville has been located here.[1] As with many small homestead communities, little documentation of Posen exists online despite historical and local significance. The community was named after Poznań, Poland because much like the rest of Washington County, Posen was settled entirely by Poles,[2] some of whom were secular Polish Jews before converting to Roman Catholicism.[3] Having dwindled in population with time, the only remaining buildings apart from the Roman Catholic parish are a handful of residential homes, an old storefront converted into a residential unit, a large graveyard of the parishioners and pioneers, the Bolo Township Hall,[4] and an alpaca farm.[5] The original church structure was replaced in the late 1960s.[6]