Editing Manteno, Illinois (section)

== History ==
===Origins of village name===
Manteno was named after Manteno (Mawteno),<ref>{{Cite web |title=History {{!}} Visitors - Village of Bourbonnais |url=https://www.villageofbourbonnais.com/visitors/history/#:~:text=One%20section%20was%20reserved%20for,no,%20a%20Pottawatomi%20Indian%20Chief. |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=www.villageofbourbonnais.com}}</ref> a daughter of Francois Bourbonnais Jr. (thus her grandfather was the man for whom the city of [[Bourbonnais, Illinois|Bourbonnais]] was named) and his [[Potawatomi]] wife.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=6388|title= Profile for Manteno, Illinois, IL|website= ePodunk|access-date=August 31, 2012}}</ref> A Potawatomi name, it is a possible [[anglicization]] of ''manito'' or ''[[manitou]]'', a Potawatomi word for "spirit".<ref>{{cite book|title=Illinois Central Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WI3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT45|year=1922|publisher=Illinois Central Railroad Company|page=45}}</ref> Oliver W. Barnard, an early settler in this area, spelled her name "Mantenau" in a poem, romanticizing the Potawatomi maiden. Other 19th century books spell it "Mawteno" and "Manteno".{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Because she was of Potawatomi descent, Mawteno (spelled phonetically in the treaty, "Maw-te-no") was given a section of land, now part of Kankakee County, near Soldier Creek, by the treaty of [[Treaty of Tippecanoe]] of 1832.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

=== Incorporation ===
Both Kankakee and Iroquois counties were part of [[Will County, Illinois]], before the State Legislature granted a plea of Kankakee's citizens and permitted them to incorporate in 1853.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

The present township of Manteno was then the east half of the township of [[Rockville Township, Kankakee County, Illinois|Rockville]]. On March 12, 1855, the town's petition that the area become the township of Manteno was granted by the county's board of supervisors.

The village was incorporated in 1869.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.city-data.com/city/Manteno-Illinois.html|title= Manteno, Illinois|publisher= City-data.com |access-date=August 31, 2012}}</ref>