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Monee is a village in Will County, Illinois, and a south suburb of Chicago.

The village is named for Marie LeFevre Bailly, the wife of fur trader Joseph Bailly, 'Monee' being an Indigenous-accented pronunciation of 'Marie.'

After the 1832 Treaty of Tippecanoe, daughters of Marie Bailly were granted 1,280 acres of land in Monee Township surrounding the site of today's Raccoon Grove Nature Preserve, and William B. Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, purchased the reservation in 1851.

Monee was platted in the early 1850s and grew up as one of the railway hamlets brought into existence by the Illinois Central Railroad; it was incorporated in 1874, with the first village board elected on December 5, 1874.

Monee was on the north edge of the Cyclone of May 26, 1917, and the village lumberyard supplied materials to rebuild the 67 structures damaged in neighboring Green Garden and Monee townships.

For most of its history Monee was a tiny farming village: its population was 598 in 1870 and had shrunk to just 395 by 1920.

Suburban growth arrived late but fast in Monee: the population jumped about 180 percent in the 1990s to 2,924 in 2000, then surged another 76 percent to 5,148 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 5,128 people in Monee, across the village's 4.47 square miles.

Monee students are served by the Crete-Monee Community Unit School District 201-U, and Monee Elementary School is located within the village.

In 1937 the Forest Preserve District of Will County bought land in Monee to form a public park that is still in use today.