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Virgil, IL
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Kane County, 47 miles W of the Loop. Nineteenth-century settlers traveled the Oregon and St. Charles Road to Virgil. Residents of Virgil in the early twentieth century witnessed the town at its peak with a general store, bank, and creamery. Later, many of these business sites near Route 64 were dormant. As part of the townspeople's resistance to change, they succeeded in blocking a planned landfill by incorporating in 1990, with a population of 319.
| Virgil, IL (inc. 1990) | |||||
| Year |
Total
(and by category) |
Foreign Born | Native with foreign parentage | Males per 100 females | |
| 1990 | 319 | — | — | — | |
| 2000 | 266 | 0.0% | — | 99 | |
| 259 | White alone (97.4%) | ||||
| 3 | Black or African American alone (1.1%) | ||||
| 1 | Asian alone (0.4%) | ||||
| 1 | Some other race alone (0.4%) | ||||
| 2 | Two or more races (0.8%) | ||||
| 5 | Hispanic or Latino* (1.9%) | ||||
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