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Hampton is a village in Rock Island County in northwestern Illinois, on the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities area.

The Hampton area was once Sauk and Meskwaki territory, and several Woodland-era Native American mounds survive within the village limits and in the adjacent Illiniwek Forest Preserve.

In 1834 the site was platted as a town named Milan, but the "paper town" failed to sell because of its swampy riverfront at the north end of the Rock Island Rapids.

After settlers drained the swamps late in the 19th century, the village was established by 1900 under the name Hampton, which had originally been the planned name of today's Milan, Illinois, 13 miles away.

Hampton's Black's Store, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was the first mercantile store to open in all of Northwest Illinois.

Early Hampton prospered on the river trade: Henry McNeal, who arrived in the winter of 1827-28 and ran a landing known as McNeal's Landing, supplied wood to steamboats, and for about forty years Hampton was one of the principal points furnishing coal and wood to Mississippi River steamers.

In 1833 Hampton competed with Farnhamsburg, today's city of Rock Island, for the seat of Rock Island County.

Hampton had 1,779 residents at the 2020 census, living in 769 households, down from 1,863 in 2010.

Hampton more than doubled in size in a single decade, jumping from 742 people in 1960 to 1,612 in 1970.

Hampton's population skews older: at the 2020 census its median age was 47.6 years, and about a quarter of residents were 65 or older.