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A site called Henpeck, settled in 1839 along the Galena–Chicago Road north of the present village, was abandoned in 1874 when the Milwaukee Road Railroad bypassed it. Platted and incorporated along the railroad, the village is now in transition from an agricultural center to a suburban bedroom community. Population in 2000 was 2,900.
Bibliography
Joslyn, R. Waite, and Frank W. Joslyn.
History of Kane County, Illinois.
2 vols. 1908.
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