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5,559
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$95,717
47.2%
America/Chicago
60119
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Elburn, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Elburn a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Elburn Home page. The Elburn Home page provides as much information as possible on Elburn. Knowing Elburn’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Elburn’s Home page, you will also find Elburn’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Elburn has a population of 5559. 47.5% of Elburn’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.5 are female. 48.1% of Elburn is married and 85.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $277,233, and the average rent is $1,422. Household median income in Elburn is $95,717, and the individual median income is $44,666. Elburn’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.7%), Hispanic(10.2%), Multiple(2.7%), Black(1.8%), Asian(0.7%), Other(0.1%).
On May 2, 1834, William Lance arrived in the Elburn area, and soon built a home there. Shortly thereafter, a man named Henry Warne arrived and opened a stagecoach inn called the Halfway House, since it was half-way between Oregon, Illinois and Chicago. When the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company built through the area in 1854, the stop at this site was named Blackberry Station after the Township.
The village incorporated as Elburn in 1886. The village was originally named Blackberry Station, but was changed at the request of the railroad. The name Elburn itself derives from its originally suggested name, Melbourne, but a suggestion to shorten the name resulted in the dropping of the "M", leaving Elbourne.
From there, it was shortened even further to Elburne, and then finally to Elburn.Once largely rural, the area's population began rapidly expanding in the 1990s with the arrival of large tract home developments. In January 2006, Metra began to provide passenger rail service from Elburn to Chicago on the Union Pacific/West Line.
This new station replaced Geneva as the western end-of-line making Elburn one of Chicago's farthest western suburbs. A new station was also constructed in LaFox.Elburn's first large grocery store, a Jewel-Osco, was met in 2007 with both excitement and apprehension over its possible effects on local businesses.
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