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Kaneville is a small village in southwestern Kane County, Illinois, that did not incorporate until November 2006, making it one of the youngest municipalities in the state; its first elected officials were chosen in April 2007.

The village was originally to be called Royalton, but when that name turned out to be taken, Congressman 'Long John' Wentworth substituted Kaneville, in honor of Elias Kane, the founder of Kane County.

A regular post office was established at Kaneville in 1848, and the village still covers only about 0.29 square miles of land.

The land the village sits on was purchased in 1845 by the Rev. Thomas Ravlin for $3 an acre, and the area's first permanent settlers, Amos and Amanda Miner, had arrived from New York in 1836.

Kaneville's 1927 brick high school building no longer holds classes; it now serves as the Kaneville Community Center, housing the township and village offices, a public library, a bank and a preschool.

The 2020 census counted 452 people in Kaneville, down from 484 in 2010, and Census Bureau survey estimates put the village at roughly 225 households averaging about 2.3 people each.

Residents voted to incorporate in 2006 largely to control the area's future after outside ventures including a super collider, a peaker power plant, a super landfill and the Prairie Parkway were proposed for the rural township.

Kaneville students are served by the Kaneland Community Unit School District 302, whose high school is in nearby Maple Park.

The village sits in the Fox River Valley roughly 40 miles west of Chicago, near Lone Grove Forest Preserve, where some of the area's earliest settlers built their homes.