Plattville

Plattville is a village in Lisbon Township, Kendall County, Illinois, United States, west of Joliet. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 242.[3] The community was established in 1860 and named after founder Daniel Platt,[4] who first built a home there in 1834 on the Frink and Walker stagecoach route between Chicago and Ottawa.[5]

Plattville was officially incorporated in March 2006[6] and had an estimated population of 245 in 2007.[7] Plattville's first mayor was George "Jerry" Friel, who died in 2009. He was instrumental in his role in incorporating the village of Plattville in the mid-2000s, and spent some of his own money to file the town's incorporation papers.[8]

Plattville is in south-central Kendall County, 17 miles (27 km) west of the center of Joliet but less than 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the city's western limits. The village is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Yorkville lies to the north, and Lisbon lies to the southwest.

According to the 2010 census, Plattville has a total area of 2.27 square miles (5.88 km2), all land.[9]

In 2010, the village was 94.6 percent White, 5 percent Hispanic, and 0.4 percent Two or more races.

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