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Leland Grove is a small city in Sangamon County, Illinois, completely surrounded by the Springfield area on the capital city's southwest side, and part of the Springfield metropolitan area.

Leland Grove is said to be named for a grove of oak trees on or near the old Horace Leland farm; Horace S. Leland opened Springfield's Leland Hotel in 1867.

Leland Grove incorporated in April 1950, after residents of several subdivisions in Woodside Township voted to form a city mainly to improve their roads, which were then mostly unpaved dirt.

Leland Grove started with about 1,060 residents, and its new government paved nine miles of roads in its first year and a half — though the work left the young city deep in debt.

Leland Grove residents, who call themselves 'Grovers,' famously voted 3-to-1 in 1957 to reject annexation by Springfield, even though both city governments favored the merger, and later Springfield annexation attempts in 1960, 1971 and 1976 also failed.

After the 1957 vote, Springfield withdrew fire protection from Leland Grove, leaving the little city without fire service until 1959.

Leland Grove had 1,454 residents in the 2020 census, and it is one of the older communities in Sangamon County — its median age was about 51 in 2010, compared with about 39 for the county as a whole.

Leland Grove is an affluent, almost entirely residential enclave with no significant commercial district, and Census Bureau survey estimates put its median household income at over $130,000.