Editing Libertyville, Illinois (section)

==History==
[[File:St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery Church.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Seminary|Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery Church]] is the former [[Burial sites of European monarchs|burial site]] of [[Peter II of Yugoslavia]], who until 2013 was the only [[European monarch]] buried on U.S. soil.]]
The land that is now Libertyville was the property of the Illinois River [[Potawatomi]] Indians until August 1829, when economic and resource pressures forced the tribe to sell much of their land in northern Illinois to the U.S. government for $12,000 cash, an additional $12,000 in goods, plus an annual delivery of 50 barrels of salt.<ref>[http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/ICW-107.html Potawatomi Treaties and Treaty Rights] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831093416/http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/ICW-107.html |date=2006-08-31 }}, mpm.edu. Accessed 2008-01-04.</ref>

Pursuant to the treaty, the Potawatomi left their lands by the mid-1830s,<ref>[http://www.19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us/bkshelf/resource/history.htm The Illinois Constitution of 1818] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207221508/http://www.19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us/bkshelf/resource/history.htm |date=2006-02-07 }}, 19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us. Accessed 2008-01-04.</ref> and by 1835 the future Libertyville had its first recorded non-indigenous resident, George Vardin. Said to be {{citation needed|date=January 2013}} a "well-educated" [[English people|English]] immigrant with a wife and a young daughter, Vardin lived in a cabin located where the Cook Park branch of the Cook Memorial Public Library District stands today. Though he apparently moved on to the west that same year, the settlement that grew up around his cabin was initially known as Vardin's Grove.<ref name="cook">[http://library.thinkquest.org/12934/nfaboutland.html History of the Cook Property] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306030211/http://library.thinkquest.org/12934/nfaboutland.html |date=2008-03-06 }}. Accessed 2008-01-04.</ref>

In 1836, during the celebrations that marked the 60th anniversary of the U.S. [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], the community voted to name itself Independence Grove. 1837 brought the town's first practicing physician, Jesse Foster, followed quickly by its first lawyer, Horace Butler, for whom Butler Lake is named.<ref name=cook/> The professionals needed services, so a post office opened, necessitating a third name change, because another Independence Grove existed elsewhere in the state. On April 16, 1837, the new post office was registered under the name Libertyville.

The town's name changed again two years later to Burlington when it became the county seat of Lake County. When the county seat moved to Little Fort (now [[Waukegan, Illinois|Waukegan]]) in 1841, the name reverted to Libertyville, without further changes.<ref name="lbhistory">[http://www.libertyville.com/index.asp?nid=136 Libertyville History], libertyville.com. Accessed 2008-01-04.</ref>

Libertyville's most prominent building, the Cook Mansion, was built in 1879 by Ansel Brainerd Cook, very close to the spot where Vardin's cabin was built in the 1830s. Cook, a teacher and stonemason, became a prominent Chicago builder and politician, providing [[flagstone]]s for the city's sidewalks and taking part in rebuilding after the [[Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871. The two-story [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] mansion served as Cook's summer home as well as the center of his horse farm, which provided animals for Chicago's [[horsecar]] lines. The building was remodeled in 1921, when it became the town library, gaining a [[American colonial architecture|Colonial]]-style facade with a pillared [[portico]].  The building is now a museum with furnishings of the period and other relevant displays. It is operated by the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society.

The community expanded rapidly with a spur of the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad|Milwaukee Road]] train line (now a [[Metra]] commuter line) reaching Libertyville in 1881, resulting in the incorporation of the Village of Libertyville in 1882, with John Locke its first village president.<ref name=lbhistory/>

Libertyville's downtown area was largely destroyed by fire in 1895,<ref name=ec/> and the village board mandated brick to be used for reconstruction, resulting in a village center whose architecture is substantially unified by both period and building material.<ref name=ec/> The [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]], which gave Libertyville a Great American Main Street Award, called the downtown "a place with its own sense of self, where people still stroll the streets on a Saturday night, and where the tailor, the hometown bakery, and the vacuum cleaner repair shop are shoulder to shoulder with gourmet coffee vendors and a microbrewery. If it's Thursday between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m., it's Farmer's Market time (June–October) on Church Street across from Cook Park -- a tradition for more than three decades."<ref>[http://awards.mainstreet.org/content.aspx?page=7262 section=22 National Main Street Awards]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, mainstreet.org. Accessed 2008-01-04.</ref>

[[Image:Adlai E. Stevenson II's home in Mettawa.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Adlai Stevenson II]]'s home in [[Libertyville, IL]] (now [[Mettawa, IL]])]]

[[Samuel Insull]], founder of [[Commonwealth Edison]], began purchasing land south of Libertyville in 1906. He eventually acquired {{convert|4445|acre|km2}}, a holding that he named Hawthorn-Mellody Farms. He also bought the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric line (later the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee), which built a spur from [[Lake Bluff, Illinois|Lake Bluff]] to Libertyville in 1903. When Insull was ruined by the [[Great Depression]], parts of his estate were bought by prominent Chicagoans [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] and [[Vernon Hills, Illinois#Additional facts|John F. Cuneo]].<ref name=ec/> The home Cuneo built is now the [[Cuneo Museum]].

From 1970 until 2013, Libertyville was the resting place of the only European monarch buried on American soil, [[Peter II of Yugoslavia]], who died in exile in [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]. On 22 January 2013, Peter II's remains were removed from his tomb at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and sent to [[Serbia]] in a ceremony attended by the Serbian [[Prime Minister of Serbia|Prime Minister]] [[Ivica Dačić]], Peter's son [[Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia|Alexander]] with his family, and [[Serbian Patriarch Irinej]].<ref name="post">{{cite news| url=http://m.washingtonpost.com/national/remains-of-last-yugoslav-king-peter-ii-karadjordjevic-returned-from-us-to-serbia/2013/01/22/ccbc58f2-64a6-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_story.html| title=Remains of last Yugoslav king Peter II Karadjordjevic returned from US to Serbia| agency=Associated Press| date=22 January 2013| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| publisher=washingtonpost.com| access-date=2013-01-23}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="rtv">{{cite news| title=The remains of King Peter II in Belgrade (Посмртни остаци краља Петра II у Београду)| url=http://www.rtv.rs/sr_ci/drustvo/posmrtni-ostaci-kralja-petra-ii-u-beogradu_365526.html| date=22 January 2013| language=sr| agency=[[Tanjug]] |work=[[Radio Television of Serbia]]| publisher=rtv.rs| access-date=2013-01-23}}</ref> Peter II lay in state in the Royal Chapel in [[Dedinje]] before his burial in the [http://www.oplenac.rs Royal Family Mausoleum at Oplenac] on May 26, 2013.

===2000 Census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> of 2000, there were 20,742 people, 7,298 households, and 5,451 families living in the village. The population density was {{convert|2,364.5|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 7,458 housing units at an average density of {{convert|850.2|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the village was 92% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 5% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]] and 1% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]]. 0.1% was [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]. About 1% each were classified as belonging to [[Race (United States Census)|other races]] or to [[multiracial|two or more races]]. 3% of the population were [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race. While still largely homogeneous, ethnic diversity had increased slightly since the 1960 census, when the population was indicated as being 99.9% white.<ref name="ec">[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/740.html Encyclopedia of Chicago: Libertyville, IL], chicagohistory.org. Accessed 2008-01-04.</ref>

As of the 2000 census, there were 7,298 households, out of which 40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25% were non-families. 22% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.7 and the average family size was 3.2.

28% of the village's population was under the age of 18, 5% from 18 to 24, 27% from 25 to 44, 28% from 45 to 64, and 12% 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.9 males.

According to a 2007 estimate, the median household income was $106,337, and the median income for a family was $127,474.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=16000US1741742&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US17%7C16000US1741742&_street=&_county=libertyville&_cityTown=libertyville&_state=04000US17&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=ACS_2007_3YR_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry= |title=U.S. Census Bureau Fact Finder |access-date=2009-01-28 |archive-date=2011-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606103402/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=16000US1741742&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US17%7C16000US1741742&_street=&_county=libertyville&_cityTown=libertyville&_state=04000US17&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=ACS_2007_3YR_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null:null&_keyword=&_industry= |url-status=dead }}</ref> Males had a median income of $72,320 versus $39,455 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the village was $40,426. About 1.9% of families and 3.5% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 4.2% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.

As of the [[2010 US Census]], there were 20,315 people living in the village. The racial makeup of the village was 90.10% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.23% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.16% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 5.73% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.04% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.05% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.70% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 4.12% of the population.