Editing Hanover Park, Illinois (section)

==History==
Ontarioville was initially the name assigned to the village of Hanover Park, a municipality situated on the border of Cook and DuPage Counties. Back in 1836, a stagecoach service transported residents along Lake Trail (also known as Grant Highway and later renamed Lake Street) all the way to Galena. By 1872, the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (later known as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) installed railway tracks on land donated by Edwin Bartlett, who contributed over seven acres for the establishment of a depot.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/564.html|title=Hanover Park, IL|website=www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org|accessdate=March 3, 2024}}</ref> Edwin and Luther Bartlett each established stations named "Bartlett" along the Chicago and Pacific Railroad line.  Luther's station kept the name [[Bartlett, Illinois|Bartlett]], but to avoid confusion, Edwin renamed his station "Ontario" in 1873, after a legend that the site was built on an old Indian trail between Lake Ontario and Green Bay, Wisconsin.

A post office was established in Ontarioville in 1873.<ref>{{cite book | last = Callary | first = Edward | title = Place Names of Illinois | publisher = University of Illinois | date = 2009 | isbn = 9780252090707 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvHgwa-XImcC&pg=PP1}}</ref>

Ontarioville was eventually incorporated into the surrounding village of Hanover Park in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.village.bartlett.il.us/museum/bartletthistory.html |title=Bartlett, Illinois: Bartlett History |author=Village of Bartlett |date=2006 |access-date=2006-12-13}}</ref>