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Palatine, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Palatine a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Palatine Home page. The Palatine Home page provides as much information as possible on Palatine. Knowing Palatine’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Palatine’s Home page, you will also find Palatine’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Palatine has a population of 67875. 47.7% of Palatine’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 51.2% of Palatine is married and 67.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $286,398, and the average rent is $1,236. Household median income in Palatine is $83,495, and the individual median income is $42,481. Palatine’s Ethnic is the following: White(68.2%), Hispanic(20.6%), Other(13.2%), Asian(11.2%), Multiple(3.7%), Black(3.3%), Native(0.5%).
The first European-American to settle in Palatine is generally thought to be George Ela, who built a log cabin in the area now called Deer Grove. Ela was one of the first of a wave of pioneers to migrate to northern Illinois following the Black Hawk War. A road that passes through the western edge of Palatine is called Ela Road in his honor.
Palatine is thought to be named after a town in New York state. The Village of Palatine was founded in 1866. It was built around a station on the new Chicago and North Western Railway. Joel Wood surveyed and laid out the village, earning him the title of Palatine's founder. One of Palatine's original downtown streets is named after Wood. In 1920, the Indian Fellowship League held its first American Indian Day celebration at Camp Reinberg, in Palatine.
According to the Daily Herald, the festivities were attended by 60,000 people, which packed the highways leading to the camp with motorists. A shortline railroad, the Palatine, Lake Zurich and Wauconda Railroad, was built in 1911, and began full passenger service to Wauconda, Illinois, in 1912. The line was closed in 1924 after a series of financial misfortunes and the improvement of roads in the area.
The PLZ&W provided transportation to Dr. Wilson's Deer Grove Park, just north of Dundee Road in Palatine.Palatine's first suburb-style subdivision was called Palanois Park, built shortly after World War II. The town has experienced rapid growth since the 1970s, part of Chicago's growing suburban sprawl.
Palatine was home to the Cook County Fair from 1914 to 1931. The fairgrounds are now a subdivision, Fairgrounds Park, whose name pays tribute to Palatine's former fairgrounds. During the early 1990s, Palatine along with neighboring Rolling Meadows and far northern suburb Zion were sued by atheist activist Rob Sherman over its village seal and seal-defaced flag, which had a Christian cross, among other things, inside an outline of an eagle.
A 1992 advisory referendum to keep the seal passed, but another referendum to use public funds to defend the seal failed, leading the village to drop the seal. While Rolling Meadows and Zion developed new seals with the crosses removed, Palatine has since been without an official seal or flag, and is Illinois' largest city or village to be so.
The French tricolor reflecting the village's sister city relationship with Fontenay-le-Comte, France, has flown at times on the flagpole meant for the village flag outside the village hall. In 1993, a multiple homicide, the Brown's Chicken massacre, received national attention. Palatine has been in the process of revitalizing its downtown area since December 1999.
This process has spawned a new passenger train station, a nearby parking garage, and several new condominiums, rowhomes, and commercial buildings. In 2008, Palatine made news by threatening to secede from Cook County over the latter's sales tax hike; as a result of the tax hike, Palatine's sales tax is 9.0%.
In 2009, residents of Palatine Township (which includes the village of Palatine) overwhelmingly voted to pass an advisory referendum stating that they would like to secede from Cook County.
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