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St. Charles IL home for sale...short sale

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St. Charles IL home for sale...short sale with walkout basement in the Fox Mill subdivision.




Single Family Home for sale in St. Charles, IL
























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Early history After the Black Hawk War in 1832 opened the Fox River valley to white settlement, Evan Shelby and William Franklin staked the first claim in what is now St. Charles in 1833. They came back in 1834 with their families from Indiana, and were joined by over a dozen other families later that year. The township was initially known as Charleston, but this name was already taken by the downstate city of Charleston, Illinois so the name of Saint Charles (suggested by S. S. Jones, a lawyer) was adopted in 1839. St. Charles became incorporated as a city in 1874. Underground Railroad Several "stations" of the slavery-era Underground Railroad were in St. Charles homes, complete with tunnels and false doorways; there was also an open abolitionist group called the Kane County Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1842, with about 180 members. Transportation history St. Charles was a very isolated place early on in its existence. The village was located three days away from Chicago, and the Fox River was not navigable for large boats. By the 1850s, St. Charles had begun construction of a plank road to Sycamore but turned down an offer by the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad to construct a line through the town, which was eventually built in nearby Elgin. Lack of regional connections in the early years kept the town relatively small. St. Charles was without a railroad until 1871 when a branch line from Geneva was constructed, and was without a direct connection to Chicago until the 1880s with the coming of the Chicago Great Western Railway. Streetcar lines along the Fox River between Elgin and Aurora were built through the city in 1896, operated by the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric company. A direct automobile route to Chicago, which eventually became Route 64 (Main Street), was constructed in 1920. Four Illinois state routes, including Routes 64, 38 (Lincoln Highway), 25 (5th Avenue) and 31 (2nd Street) now run though the city. Two major Kane County roads also cut through the city; Randall Road on the west side and Kirk Road on the east side. Immigration history St. Charles was also the place of settlement for diverse groups of European immigrants, including those from Ireland and Sweden during the 1840s and '50s, and later, groups from Belgium and Lithuania.

















































$669,000
Single Family Home
For Sale

Main Features

4 Bedrooms
4 Bathrooms
1 Partial Bathroom


Location

39W667  Walt Whitman Rd
St. Charles, IL 60175










Tom Pauling


Tom Pauling

Baird & Warner
(630) 728-9298
tom.pauling@bairdwarner.com
http://www.tompauling.com





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Tom Pauling

St. Charles-Geneva-Batavia-Kane County

Comments (1)

Rich Edgley
Greater Chicagoland Home Inspection - Saint Charles, IL

Love the history lesson, Tom.  That's why I love this place.

Mar 08, 2010 05:44 AM