Editing Kendall County, Illinois (section)

==Government==
County board members run in two districts. All other officers run county-wide:
* County Board Members (District 1): Ruben Rodriguez, Scott Gengler, Brian DeBolt, Seth Wormley, Jason Peterson; 
* County Board Members (District 2): Elizabeth Flowers, Brooke Shanley, Zach Bachman, Matt Kellogg, Dan Koukol;
* County Board Chairman – Matt Kellogg
* Forest Preserve President – Brian DeBolt
* Clerk of the Circuit Court – Matthew G. Prochaska
* Coroner – Jacquie Purcell
* County Clerk and Recorder – Debbie Gillette
* Sheriff – Dwight Baird
* State's Attorney – Eric Weis
* Treasurer – Jill Ferko

===Politics===
For years, Kendall County was one of the most Republican counties in Illinois. Between the 1856 and 2004 elections, the only time Kendall County did not give a plurality to the GOP presidential nominee was in 1912, when the Republican Party was mortally divided and [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]] candidate [[Theodore Roosevelt]] won 57.56% of the county's vote against conservative incumbent president  [[William Howard Taft]]. Moreover, only one Democratic presidential candidate – [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] in 1932 and 1936 – ever cracked 40% of Kendall County's vote during this span of 38 presidential elections.

In [[2008 US presidential election|2008]], Illinois native [[Barack Obama]] became the first Democrat to carry the county since [[Franklin Pierce]] in 1852. Obama did not repeat this feat against [[Mitt Romney]] in [[2012 United States presidential election in Illinois|2012]], nor did Democrat [[Hillary Clinton]] in [[2016 US presidential election in Illinois|2016]].

[[Joe Biden]] won the county with a majority in [[2020 United States presidential election in Illinois|2020]]. [[Kamala Harris]] in [[2024 United States presidential election in Illinois|2024]] became the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry the county despite losing the presidential election.

Kendall County is one of only thirteen counties to have voted for Obama in 2008, Romney in 2012, Trump in 2016, and Biden in 2020.{{efn|The other twelve are [[Butte County, California]]; [[Teton County, Idaho]]; [[Kent County, Maryland]]; [[McLean County, Illinois]]; [[Tippecanoe County, Indiana]]; [[Kent County, Michigan]]; [[Leelanau County, Michigan]]; [[Carroll County, New Hampshire]]; [[Rockingham County, New Hampshire]]; [[Marion County, Oregon]]; [[Grand County, Utah]]; and [[Albany County, Wyoming]].|name=|group=}}

{{PresHead|place=Kendall County, Illinois|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323225526/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|archive-date=March 23, 2018}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|31,970|32,977|1,602|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|29,492|33,168|1,545|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|24,961|24,884|4,210|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|24,047|22,471|900|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|21,380|24,742|609|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|19,776|12,497|254|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|13,688|8,444|637|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|8,958|6,499|2,215|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|8,521|5,423|4,462|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|10,653|4,347|84|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|10,872|3,789|69|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|10,028|3,143|1,156|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|9,011|4,202|136|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|9,373|2,525|19|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|7,184|2,228|786|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|5,710|3,430|0|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|5,975|2,242|11|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|5,057|1,407|7|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,982|1,476|3|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|3,925|1,517|27|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|4,022|1,673|6|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|4,200|1,978|18|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|3,138|2,374|208|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|2,749|2,398|62|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,589|1,154|9|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|3,513|432|464|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,459|439|33|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|3,316|1,008|75|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|534|531|1,586|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,948|556|133|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|2,120|423|146|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|2,121|713|110|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|2,128|774|74|Illinois}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|1,691|848|305|Illinois}}

=== Property values ===
Kendall County was the fastest growing county in the US, more than doubling in population between the 2000 and 2010 censuses.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://willcountygazette.com/stories/511101869-analysis-kendall-county-home-prices-wilt-under-growing-property-tax-bills|title=Analysis: Kendall County home prices wilt under growing property tax bills|date=April 9, 2017|work=Will County Gazette|access-date=March 22, 2018|language=en}}</ref>

All five Kendall County communities analyzed saw their real home prices fall dramatically from 2007 to 2015, from a low of 17 percent in Montgomery to a high of 44 percent in Plano. Minooka and Oswego both saw their home values fall 34 percent. In Yorkville, they fell 36 percent.<ref name=":0" />