Editing Kirkland, Illinois (section)

==History==
A post office called Kirkland has been in operation since 1875.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IL&county=DeKalb&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=DeKalb County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=April 10, 2015}}</ref> Kirkland was [[plat]]ted in 1876.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gross|first1=Lewis M.|last2=Fay|first2=H. W.|title=Past and Present of DeKalb County, Illinois|url=https://archive.org/details/pastpresentofdek01gros|year=1907|publisher=Pioneer Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/pastpresentofdek01gros/page/132 132]}}</ref> The village was named for William T. Kirk, a local landowner.<ref>{{cite book|last=Callary|first=Edward|title=Place Names of Illinois|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvHgwa-XImcC&pg=PA187|date=September 29, 2008|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-09070-7|page=187}}</ref>