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Virgil is a village in Virgil Township, in western Kane County, Illinois, whose motto is "Rooted in the Past with Pride & Tradition."

Although the Virgil area was settled in 1836, the village was not incorporated until November 6, 1990, making it one of the younger municipalities in Illinois.

Virgil Township was formed on June 4, 1850, and was given the classical Latin name Virgil after the ancient Roman poet.

In 1836 the township's first settler, Luther Merrill of New Hampshire, laid claim to the entire township for himself before other settlers arrived from New York, New England, Canada, and later Germany.

The Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad was built through Virgil in 1886 along the old Iowa Chicago cattle trail, and the hamlet grew up around the train stop at I.C. Trail and Meredith Road.

The SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church was dedicated in Virgil in 1879, with a parochial school following in 1881; German immigrant farmers drained the township's swampy prairie into some of the richest farmland in the state.

Virgil was the epicenter of the earthquake that rattled northern Illinois in the early morning hours of February 10, 2010.

The population of Virgil was 289 at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 329 in 2010, with 132 households and 113 families in the village.

Virgil spreads its roughly 300 residents across 2.18 square miles, giving it a population density of only about 132 people per square mile despite sitting in the Chicago exurban fringe.

Illinois Route 64 runs through the center of Virgil, leading east 12 miles to St. Charles and west 8 miles to Sycamore.