Local coverage
Project conversations across Kane County and the Elgin area.
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South Elgin
South Elgin's history starts at a dam built on the Fox River in 1847, when the site was known as Clintonville, a gristmill settlement that grew...
Local planning notes →St. Charles
St. Charles was founded in March 1834 by Evan Shelby and William Franklin on the east bank of the Fox River, at what is now Baker Memorial Park...
Local planning notes →Bartlett
Bartlett's original 40-acre town site belonged to Luther Bartlett, who had arrived in Illinois by way of Michigan in 1844 after growing up in...
Local planning notes →Streamwood
Streamwood was farm country -- known as Hoosier Grove -- from the 1830s through the 1950s, and as late as 1950 the future Streamwood area had...
Local planning notes →Carpentersville
Carpentersville traces back to 1837, when Julius Angelo Carpenter camped on the east bank of the Fox River to wait out spring floods during a...
Local planning notes →East Dundee
First settled by Joseph Russell, East and West Dundee were both platted in the early 1840s, with East Dundee incorporating in 1871, four years...
Local planning notes →Gilberts
The land that became Gilberts was first claimed in the spring of 1836 by E.R. Starks and Elijah Rich in what was then Rutland Township...
Local planning notes →Hampshire
Hampshire Township was organized in 1845, nearly three decades before the village itself existed -- 'Hampshire Center' was platted in October...
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