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Campton Hills is a village in Kane County, west of Chicago, and one of the newest municipalities in Illinois.

The village was established on May 14, 2007, incorporating about 20.3 square miles of Campton and Plato townships, including the old unincorporated community of Wasco.

Incorporation followed an April 17, 2007 referendum in which 55 percent of voters said yes, capping a grassroots campaign by residents who wanted local zoning control to block annexation by the City of Elgin and preserve the area's rural character.

The population of Campton Hills was 10,885 at the 2020 census, slightly down from 11,131 in 2010.

Campton Hills has roughly 3,500 households, and Census Bureau data put its median household income at about $173,500 in 2020, among the highest figures for any Illinois community.

True to its founders' promise, the village levies no municipal property tax and funds itself through state-shared revenue distributed on the basis of population.

Patsy Smith, one of the leaders of the incorporation campaign, became the village's first president.

The Campton Hills area is home to Garfield Farm Museum, a 366-acre living-history farmstead preserving an 1840s prairie farm, whose brick Garfield Inn was built in 1846 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The village covers the historic hamlets of Wasco and La Fox and remains a low-density community of large lots, horse properties, and subdivisions carved out of what was farmland settled in the 1830s.