by Vanessa Carlson | Feb 1, 2023 | Places
Considered to be the oldest community in Will County, Plainfield started out as Walker’s Grove, a small settlement established by James Walker and his family in 1828. Walker built a cabin, a sawmill, and a gristmill at the site of an old Potawatomi village on the Du...
by Vanessa Carlson | Feb 1, 2023 | Places
Oak Park, originally part of Cicero became its own municipality in 1902. The first settlers in what became the village of Oak Park were Joseph and Berry Kettlestrings of Yorkshire, England, who moved here in 1837. The Kettlestrings, whose property bordered the Frink...
by Vanessa Carlson | Feb 1, 2023 | Places
Sometime in the 1830’s brothers Jesse and Warren Wheaton arrived in Illinois from Connecticut and purchased about 1,000 acres of the land that now encompasses downtown Wheaton. In 1849 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad build a station on land donated by...
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