Local coverage

Kane County towns this covers beyond Elgin itself.

Provider coverage in each town shifts with availability. Each page below walks through that community's housing and ground conditions.

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...

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...

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...

Streamwood was farm country -- known as Hoosier Grove -- from the 1830s through the 1950s, and as late as 1950 the future Streamwood area had...

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...

First settled by Joseph Russell, East and West Dundee were both platted in the early 1840s, with East Dundee incorporating in 1871, four years...

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...

Hampshire Township was organized in 1845, nearly three decades before the village itself existed -- 'Hampshire Center' was platted in October...