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Earlville is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, and is part of the Ottawa micropolitan area.

Earlville was settled in 1834 and was at first known simply as Earl; Boston lumberman Charles Sutphen was among its first settlers, claiming about 1,000 acres where the city now stands and lobbying for many of the area's first roads.

The Earlville post office has been in operation since 1844.

Earlville was incorporated as a town on May 16, 1863, and on February 5, 1877, its voters approved becoming a city by a vote of 116 to 1.

Earlville had a population of 1,613 at the 2020 census, living in 680 households, down from a peak of 1,778 residents in 2000.

Indian Creek, a small tributary of the Fox River, runs through the middle of Earlville.

Earlville Community Unit School District 9 runs Earlville Grade School, Earlville Junior High, and Earlville High School - whose teams are the Raiders - all on a single campus on Union Street, the former route of U.S. Highway 34.

Earlville remains a farm-service town surrounded by strongly agricultural land, with a modern library, a K-12 school system, a weekly newspaper, and a drive-in movie theater.

Several planned residential developments in Earlville were derailed by the nationwide housing crash that began in 2008, and the city's population has declined somewhat over the past two decades.

Notable people from Earlville include Gary K. Wolf, author of the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? that became the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Herbert O. Crisler, head football coach and athletic director at the University of Michigan; and Frank Haven Hall, inventor of the Hall Braille Writer.