Local coverage
Project conversations across Kane County and the Elgin area.
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South Elgin
South Elgin's oldest section began in 1847 as a gristmill settlement called Clintonville, built directly around a dam on the Fox River, decades before it took the South...
Local planning notes →St. Charles
St. Charles was founded in March 1834 on the east bank of the Fox River and first called 'Charleston' before its earliest industries -- lumber, gristmill, and wool...
Local planning notes →Bartlett
Bartlett's original town site was a 40-acre parcel owned by Luther Bartlett, who offered the Chicago & Pacific Railroad a right-of-way through the land in 1873 to bring...
Local planning notes →Streamwood
Streamwood's land was known as Hoosier Grove and worked by dairy farmers from the 1830s into the 1950s, until 21 pre-assembled houses shipped from Indiana started a...
Local planning notes →Carpentersville
Carpentersville traces back to 1837, when its founders camped on the east bank of the Fox River waiting out spring floods during an oxcart trip toward the Rock River...
Local planning notes →East Dundee
East Dundee was platted in the early 1840s and incorporated in 1871, the same year a brickyard along the Fox River -- later Haeger Potteries -- began digging clay...
Local planning notes →Gilberts
Gilberts began in the spring of 1836 as farm claims in Rutland Township, later becoming a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad milk-shipping stop known as Gilberts Station...
Local planning notes →Hampshire
Hampshire Township organized in 1845, but the village itself was platted in 1874 specifically to capture business from the railroad, later relocating to sit along the...
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