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Contact Me Home Select Page Will County Illinois Genealogy Welcome to the Will County ILGenWeb These pages are a part of the ILGenWeb Project. They provide a resource for genealogists searching in Will County, IL. You can post queries about surnames you are researching, see who else might be researching the same names as yourself, ask volunteers to do reference lookups, volunteer to do reference lookups, and get information on searching in Will County. My name is Dennis Partridge, and I am currently the host of Will County, you can contact me here , if you have any questions. I do not live in Will County, nor Illinois, but I will attempt to answer your research questions or point you in the direction of somebody who can. About the County Elks Parade August 17 1909 Joliet Illinois Will County is located in northeastern Illinois, south of Cook County. The county seat is in Joliet, Illinois which is located approximately 40 miles southwest of Chicago on the Des Plaines River. The county received its name from Dr. Conrad Will, a member of the first Constitutional Convention and a member of the Illinois Legislature until his death in 1835. In the year 1836, January 12th, Will County was formed from Cook County and Iroquois County and included besides its present area, the part of Kankakee County, Illinois lying north of the Kankakee River. Will County lost a small area when Kankakee County, Illinois was organized in 1852, but since then its boundaries have been unchanged. It is divided into 24 townships: Channahon, Crete, Custer, Du Page, Florence, Frankfort, Green Garden, Homer, Jackson, Joliet, Lockport, Manhattan, Monee, New Lenox, Peotone, Plainfield, Reed, Troy, Washington, Wesley, Wheatland, Will, Wilmington, and Wilton. From the 1854 US Gazetteer WILL, a county in the E. N. E. part of Illinois, bordering on Indiana, has an area of 1236 square miles. It is intersected by the Kankakee and Des Plaines rivers, branches of the Illinois. The surface is generally level, and destitute of timber, excepting small groves. The soil is very fertile, and much of it is under cultivation. The soil of the prairies is a deep, sandy loam, adapted to Indian corn and grass. In 1850 the county produced 527,903 bushels of Indian corn; 230,885 of wheat; 334,360 of oats; 32,043 tons of hay, and 319,054 pounds of butter. It contained 14 churches, 3 newspaper offices; 3472 pupils attending public schools, and 200 attending other schools. Quarries of building stone are worked near the county seat. The Des Plaines river furnishes water-power. The county is intersected by the Illinois and Michigan canal, by the Chicago branch of the Central railroad, the Chicago and Mississippi, and by the Chicago and Rock Island railroad. Named in honor of Conrad Will, for many years a member of the Illinois legislature. Capital, Joliet. Population, 16,703. Will County Genealogy Biographies Cemeteries Census Coal Mining Court Records Families – Family Group Sheets History – Churches, Cities/Towns, Newspapers, Photos, Schools Along Old Sauk Trail Churches Cities/Towns History of Will County, Illinois, 1878 Monee Township Newspapers Past & Present of Will County, 1907 Photographs Reed Township Schools ca 1906 Results of Examination of Will County Seventh and Eighth Grade Pupils The History of Joliet Series , by John Whiteside, The Herald News Land Links Maps Military Search NARA WWII Records for Will County Resources/Research Tools – Queries/Mailing List Vital Records includes obits USGenWeb Archives Will-Grundy Genealogical Society ILGenWeb Statewide Projects ILGenWeb Adoptable Counties Search USGenWeb Illinois Archives Project Be sure to visit our neighboring counties: Cook DuPage Grundy Kane Kankakee Kendall Lake Co IN The USGenWeb Project has grown into a national volunteer effort providing a website for each county in the US. – This project began in 1996 in Kentucky and continues to grow daily. – Volunteers coordinate the collection of materials and oversee the contents of their county pages.- The Will County IL page is affiliated with the ILGenWeb Project and the USGenWeb Project. Special thanks to former Will County Coordinators: Ted Cash, 1998-2007; Deb Vieau Haines 2007-2014 Last Update: Jul 21, 2023 @ 3:48 pm EST Will County Coordinator : Dennis Partridge © 2007-2023 ILGenWeb Project. All Rights Reserved. Copyright of submitted items belongs to those responsible for their authorship or creation unless otherwise assigned. Search Search Affiliations Categories Biographies Cemeteries Census Coal Mining Court Records Families History Land Links Maps Military Resources/Research Tools Vital Records Biography of Oren W. Arnold of Joliet, Illinois Biography of James R. Ashley of Joliet, Illinois Biography of Morgan Ashley of Lockport, Illinois Biography of J. B. Austin of Gooding’s Grove, Illinois Biography of E. D. Avery of Joliet, Illinois Biography of William Angus of Peotone, Illinois Biography of William Andrew of Greengarden, Illinois Biography of Alexander Andrews of Joliet, Illinois Biography of Andrew Amend of Joliet, Illinois Biography of Edmund Allen of Wilmington, Illinois Steve on History of Peotone Illinois, 1907 April 11, 2024 Is there any way I can find out the color of the original Peotone post office located at 122 n… Lance E Morton on History of Wesley Township, Illinois March 11, 2024 My name is Lance Morton. I grew up on the corner of Old chicago road and Deselm/Manteno rd across from… Roberto on History of Joliet Illinois, 1927 March 1, 2024 Upon graduating as an architect from the University of Havana in 1941, my father, Luis R. Fernandez and his two… Will County ILGenWeb on Will County Illinois Genealogy Queries January 28, 2024 The Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Allen County Indiana has most periodicals published by genealogical societies. 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