Local coverage
Project conversations across Kane County and the Elgin area.
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South Elgin
South Elgin's oldest streets grew up around an 1847 gristmill and dam on the Fox River, in a settlement first known as Clint...
Local planning notes →St. Charles
St. Charles traces to 1834, when settlers reached the east bank of the Fox River at what is now Baker Memorial Park and first called...
Local planning notes →Bartlett
Bartlett grew as a rail depot town on land owned by Luther Bartlett, who offered the Chicago & Pacific Railroad a right-of-way in 1...
Local planning notes →Streamwood
Streamwood's rural predecessor, Hoosier Grove, held dairy farms into the 1950s before a 1956 slab-built subdivision arrived, marketed...
Local planning notes →Carpentersville
Carpentersville exists because the Carpenter family camped out a Fox River flood in 1837 at what they first called Carpenters'...
Local planning notes →East Dundee
East Dundee's signature industry, a brickyard turned pottery works, dug clay straight out of the Fox River bank starting in 18...
Local planning notes →Gilberts
Gilberts grew from 1836 land claims and an 1839 farm into a Chicago & Northwestern rail depot shipping milk to Chicago, incorporat...
Local planning notes →Hampshire
Hampshire was platted twice for the railroad — first in 1874, then relocated in 1876 — before growing into Illinois's second...
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