DeKalb County (Illinois)

administration
DeKalb County Courthouse
US state :	Illinois
Administrative headquarters :	Sycamore
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 133 West State Street Sycamore, IL 60178-1448
Foundation :	March 4, 1837
Made up from:	Kane County
Area code :	001 815
Demographics
Residents :	105,160 (2010)
Population density :	64 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1645 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.dekalbcounty.org

The DeKalb County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois . In 2010 , the county had 105,160 people and a population density of 64 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Sycamore .

DeKalb County is part of the Chicago metropolitan area .

geography

The county is located in the western suburbs of Chicago in northern Illinois. It has an area of 1645 square kilometers, of which two square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border DeKalb County:

Winnebago County	Boone County	McHenry County
Ogle County Lee County		Kane County
	LaSalle County	Kendall County

history

J. DeKalb

The area of today's DeKalb County was formerly settled by the Indian tribe of the Kishwaukee . An area with huge trees, fertile soil and plenty of game. After the beginning of the settlement, mainly by settlers from Kentucky as well as wounded and deserters from the troops of General Winfield Scott in search of Black Hawk in 1832, DeKalb County was formed from Kane County on March 4, 1837 . It was named after Johann von Kalb , a German-American general during the American Revolution. As a result of the Black Hawk massacre, the stories got into the press and others listened to this kind of fertile soil, whereupon the settlement made rapid progress.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	1697	-
1850	7540	344.3%
1860	19,086	153.1%
1870	23,265	21.9%
1880	26,768	15.1%
1890	27,066	1.1%
1900	31,756	17.3%
1910	33,457	5.4%
1920	31,339	-6.3%
1930	32,644	4.2%
1940	34,388	5.3%
1950	40,781	18.6%
1960	51.714	26.8%
1970	71,654	38.6%
1980	74,624	4.1%
1990	77,932	4.4%
2000	88,969	14.2%
2010	105.160	18.2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

The DeKalb County's Legislative Center in Sycamore

Farmer working in the fields in DeKalb County, 1958

According to the 2010 census , DeKalb County had 105,160 people in 37,825 households. The population density was 64 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.52 people lived in each of the 37,825 households.

The racial the population was composed of 88.3 percent white, 6.8 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 2.7 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Polynesian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 10.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

21.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 68.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 10.1 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 54,002 USD . The per capita income was $ 24,179. 14.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities in DeKalb County

Citys

Towns

Cortland

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partly in Lee County

2 - mostly in Kane County

3 - partly in Kendall and in LaSalle County

4 - partly in LaSalle County}

structure

DeKalb County is divided into 19 townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Afton Township	861	17-00386
Clinton Township	1868	17-14988
Cortland Township	10,968	17-16483
DeKalb Township	46,781	17-19174
Franklin Township	2502	17-27650
Genoa Township	5704	17-28911
Kingston Township	3519	17-40078
Malta Township	1608	17-46292
Mayfield Township	929	17-47696
Milan Township	331	17-48983

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Paw Paw Township	334	17-58200
Pierce Township	454	17-59676
Sandwich Township	7709	17-67561
Shabbona Township	1453	17-68835
Somonauk Township	2101	17-70473
South Grove Township	512	17-70837
Squaw Grove Township	2802	17-72182
Sycamore Township	14,425	17-74236
Victor Township	299	17-77798