IRAD Fact Sheet for Will County Compiled by Ted Cash. The below information was obtained from the Illinois State Archives
Established: | January 12, 1836 (Laws, 1836, p. 262) | ||
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in: | |||
18311836 | Cook | ||
18331836 | Iroquois | ||
18261836 | Vermilion | ||
18251827 | Putnam | ||
18231825 | Edgar | ||
18231825 | Fulton | ||
18191823 | Clark | ||
18211823 | Pike | ||
18161823 | Crawford | ||
18151816 | Edwards | ||
18121815 | Madison | ||
18011812 | St. Clair | ||
17901801 | Knox, Northwest Territory | ||
County Seat: | |||
1836 | JolietName changed from Juliet on May 24, 1845. | ||
History of county governing board: | |||
18361850 | County Commissioners Court | ||
1850 | County Board of Supervisors | ||
Township Government | |||
Adopted: | November 6, 1849 | ||
Township Names: | |||
Channahon | |||
Crete | |||
Custer | Formed from Reed and Wilmington (date unknown). | ||
DuPage | |||
Florence | Formed from Wilmington (date unknown). | ||
Frankfort | |||
Green Garden | Formed from east half of Trenton (date unknown). | ||
Homer | |||
Jackson | |||
Joliet | |||
Lockport | |||
Manhattan | Formed from west half of Trenton (date unknown). | ||
Monee | Name changed from Carcy (date unknown). | ||
New Lenox | Name changed from Vernon on June 10, 1850. | ||
Peotone | Formed from east half of Wilton (date unknown). | ||
Plainfield | |||
Reed | Name changed from Clinton on June 10, 1850. | ||
Troy | |||
Washington | Formed from Crete and Sherburn (date unknown). | ||
Wesley | Formed from southeast part of Wilmington (date unknown). | ||
Wheatland | |||
Will | Formed from Carcy (now Monee) and Sherburn (date unknown). | ||
Wilmington | |||
Wilton | |||
Notes: | |||
Bourbonnais, Momence and Rockville were townships established in 1850, but the area therein became part of Kankakee County when it was formed in 1853. | |||
Sherburn and Trenton were townships established in 1850, but the area therein was absorbed into other townships. See above. |
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