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14,231
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$103,659
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America/Chicago
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Antioch, IL - History
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Welcome to the Antioch Home page. The Antioch Home page provides as much information as possible on Antioch. Knowing Antioch’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Antioch’s Home page, you will also find Antioch’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Antioch has a population of 14231. 49.4% of Antioch’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 57.7% of Antioch is married and 74.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $239,056, and the average rent is $997. Household median income in Antioch is $103,659, and the individual median income is $44,157. Antioch’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.1%), Hispanic(7.3%), Multiple(5.7%), Asian(4.4%), Other(3%), Black(1.5%), Native(0.3%).
The first permanent European settlements in the region were along the creek, named as “Sequoit” which means “winding” in Indian. Darius and Thomas Gage brothers built the first cabin. After building a sawmill by Hiram Buttrick on Sequoit Creek, a tributary of the Fox River, the region became a center of commerce.
In 1843, new settlers gave a biblical name “Antioch” to the region and started a school. The town grew as new settlers, primarily of English and German descent, established farms and businesses. In 1976, a replica of Buttrick's mill was built a few hundred feet downstream from where it once stood.
Today, many local businesses and organizations as well as Antioch Community High School use the name "Sequoit". Partly due to being a regional center of the abolitionist movement, Antioch is noted as having sent a disproportionately high number of its young men to the Union Army. By the late 1800s, Antioch became a popular vacation spot for Chicagoans and tourism grew quickly once the rail line to Chicago was laid in 1886.
Fire destroyed much of downtown in 1891, 1903, and 1904. During Prohibition, Al Capone owned a summer home on nearby Bluff Lake. Following World War II, Antioch continued to see a steady population and economic increase, and an industrial park was created in the 1970s. Today, Antioch serves as a bedroom community within the Chicago metropolitan and Milwaukee metropolitan area.
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