Local coverage
Project conversations across Kane County and the Elgin area.
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South Elgin
South Elgin grew up around an 1847 gristmill settlement on the Fox River first known as Clintonville, and did not incorporate as South Elgin until 1897...
Local planning notes →St. Charles
St. Charles was founded in March 1834 as "Charleston" on the east bank of the Fox River, renamed in 1839, and grew into a Roaring Twenties leisure destination around the Arcada Theatre and Hotel Baker...
Local planning notes →Bartlett
Bartlett formed around Luther Bartlett's 40-acre town site after his 1873 railroad deal brought a depot to the settlement, incorporating as a village in 1891...
Local planning notes →Streamwood
Streamwood grew out of the dairy-farming Hoosier Grove area into a 1956 pre-fabricated "Town of Tomorrow" subdivision, incorporating as a village in 1957...
Local planning notes →Carpentersville
Carpentersville traces to the Carpenter family's 1837 stop on the Fox River, taking its official name in 1851 and gaining electric interurban rail service in 1896...
Local planning notes →East Dundee
East Dundee was platted in the early 1840s and incorporated in 1871, home to the Haeger Potteries brickyard that began along the Fox River in 1852...
Local planning notes →Gilberts
Gilberts grew around Albro Gilberts's 1839 farm and a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad milk-shipping station, incorporating as a village in 1890...
Local planning notes →Hampshire
Hampshire was platted in October 1874 along a planned rail line and incorporated in 1876, growing into Illinois's second-largest milk-shipping station by 1893...
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