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The Township Office is located at 611 E. Main Street, Suite 201 East Dundee, IL. In addition to the township government, two other entities serve an area that approximates the Township. The Dundee Township Park District administers 564 acres (2.28 km 2) of parks, two golf courses and two swimming pools. The Dundee Township Library District ...
The Dundee Brick Company was an important early employer, starting in 1852. West Dundee was incorporated in 1867 and East Dundee followed four years later. The Illinois Iron and Bolt Company opened in Carpentersville in 1870. Dairy production became an important source of income for East and West Dundee in the 1870s.
The Elgin Academy, independently listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), was completed in 1856. Gail Borden, Jr., the inventor of condensed milk, opened the world's largest condensed milk factory in the world in the 1860s. Elgin's first bank, the First National Bank of Elgin, was founded in 1865.
The 1.1 million-square-foot mall's retail sales boosted West Dundee's economy and created an estimated 1,600 jobs by 1982. New subdivisions were built to the west of Spring Hill Mall. With a population of 7,331 (2010 Census data), West Dundee has managed to keep its quaintness and small-town feeling intact.
In October 2003 the Gail Borden Public Library moved into a new $30 million, 139,980 square foot, 460,000 volume-capacity building, and in August 2009 opened its first-ever satellite branch. The 10,000 square foot Rakow Branch, situated on Elgin's West Side, was LEED registered, and was designed to be expandable up to 30,000 square feet. [12]
The Dundee Township Park District offers a wide variety of services to both residents and non-residents of Dundee Township. The facilities and services offered include a recreation and fitness center, a day care center, two golf courses, a senior center, two outdoor swimming pools which include Dolphin Cove Family Aquatic Center and Sleepy Hollow Pool, an indoor pool, Randall Oaks Barnyard Zoo ...
Kane County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 516,522, [2] making it the fifth-most populous county in Illinois. . Its county seat is Geneva, [3] and its largest city is Aur
The Elgin Professional Building is a historic high-rise building constructed in 1928 at 164 Division Street in downtown Elgin, Illinois. The building is 8 stories, at 96 feet tall, [1] and functions primarily as an office building, housing the Elgin Art Showcase on the top floor since 2007. [2] The building is also the office of Illinois State ...