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COURTHOUSE INFO:
County Courthouse
Phone: (815) 740-4602
Fax: (815) 740-8395
Website: http://www.willcountyillinois.com HISTORY
Will County was formed in 1836 out of Cook, Iroquois and Vermilion
Counties. It was named after Dr. Conrad Will, a businessman involved in
salt production in southern Illinois, and also a politician.[1] (At that
time, the law allowed slaves to be leased from other states and used in
the free state of Illinois only for salt production.) Will was a member
of the first Illinois Constitutional Convention and a member of the
Illinois Legislature until his death in 1835. On January 12, 1836, Will
County was formed from Cook County and Iroquois County. It included
besides its present area, the part of Kankakee County, Illinois lying
north of the Kankakee River. Will County lost that area when Kankakee
County was organized in 1852, but since then its boundaries have been
unchanged.
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County Seat: Joliet
Year Organized: 1836
Square Miles: 837
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ADJACENT
COUNTIES:
1 -
DuPage Co. - North
2. - Cook Co. - Northeast
3. - Lake Co., Indiana - East
4. - Kankakee Co. - South
5. - Grundy Co. - Southwest
6. - Kendall Co. - West
7. - Kane Co. - Northwest |
Townships.
* Channahon
* Crete
* Custer
* DuPage
* Florence
* Frankfort
* Green Garden
* Hmer
* Jackson
* Joliet
* Lockpart
* Manhattan |
* Monee
* New Lenox
* Peotone
* Plainfield
* Reed
* Troy
* Washington
* Wesley
* Wheatland
* Will
* Wilmington
* Wilton |
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Unincorporated communities* Aurora -
partly in DuPage, Kane & Kendall Co.
* Beecher
* Bolingbrook - small sections in DuPage and Cook Co.
* Braidwood
* Channahon
* Coal City - primarily in Grundy Co., very small parcel
in Will Co.
* Crest Hill
* Crete
* Diamond - primarily in Grundy County, very small
parcel in Will Co.
* Elwood
* Frankfort
* Godley - small section in Grundy Co.
* Homer Glenn
* Joliet - small section in Kendall Co.
* Lemont - primarily in Cook Co., very small parcel in
Will Co.
* Lockport
* Manhattan
* Minooka - primarily in Grundy Co and * Kendall Co.
* Mokena
* Monee
* Naperville - primarily in DuPage Co.
* New Lenox
* Orland Park - primarily in Cook Co., very small parcel
in Will Co.
* Park Forest - primarily in Cook Co.
* Shorewood
* Steger - partly in Cook Co.
* Symerton
* Tinley Park - primarily in Cook Co.
* University Park - partly in Cook Co.
* Wilmington
* Woodridge - partly in DePage and a small parcel in
Cook Co.
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Unincorporated areas:* Andres
* Crystal Lawns
* Fairmont
* Frankfort Square
* Goodings Grove
* Goodenow
* Ingalls Park
* Lakewood Shores
* Preston Heights
vRidgewood
* Willowbrook - not to be confused with the Village
of Willowbrook, Illinois
* Wilton Center
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