Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Warrenville, IL

Warrenville is a city in DuPage County, founded in 1833 when Julius Warren and his family moved west from New York and claimed land along the West Branch of the DuPage River.

The Warrenville Grove Forest Preserve on the West Branch of the DuPage River preserves the spot where Julius Warren made his original 1833 land claim.

Warrenville waited a long time for self-government: it was not incorporated as a city until 1967, after six unsuccessful incorporation attempts, by which time it had about 4,000 residents.

Warrenville's population nearly doubled during the suburban expansion of the 1970s and 1980s, and it reached 13,553 residents at the 2020 census.

Census Bureau estimates count about 5,730 households in Warrenville, with roughly three-quarters of its homes owner-occupied.

Warrenville sits in the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor along Interstate 88, the belt of research and corporate campuses stretching west from Chicago.

On Warrenville's edge stands St. James Farm Forest Preserve, a roughly 600-acre former estate of the McCormick family — Chauncey McCormick, great-nephew of mechanical reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, bought it in 1920 — that was sold to the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County in 2000.

Warrenville is part of Community Unit School District 200, which it shares with neighboring Wheaton across 20 schools.

Warrenville has won the Illinois Governor's Hometown Award multiple times, in 1986, 1987 and 1990.