Editing Kane County, Illinois (section)

==History==
Kane County was formed out of [[LaSalle County, Illinois|LaSalle County]] in 1836. The county was named in honor of [[Elias Kane]], a [[United States Senate|United States senator]] and the first [[Illinois Secretary of State|secretary of state of Illinois]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |author=Gannett, Henry |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n171 172] |access-date=October 18, 2015 }}</ref>

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File:Kane County Illinois 1836.png|Kane County from the time of its creation to 1837, when DeKalb County was split off
File:Kane County Illinois 1837.png|Kane County between 1837 and 1841
File:Kane County Illinois 1841.png|Kane County in 1841, reduced to its present size
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