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Yorkville is the county seat of Kendall County, Illinois, and its motto is "The City with a River in Its Heart," because the Fox River flows directly through its downtown.

The city traces its start to 1833, when Earl Adams built a cabin on Courthouse Hill on the south side of the river; the Chapel on the Green in Yorkville is the oldest church in Kendall County.

Yorkville was originally two separate towns - Bristol north of the Fox River and Yorkville south of it - that kept separate governments for more than 100 years before merging in 1957 to form the United City of Yorkville.

When Kendall County was formed in 1841 Yorkville was chosen as its seat; after Oswego held the honor for 13 years, voters returned the county government to Yorkville in 1859, and the historic 1864 Kendall County Courthouse, now on the National Register of Historic Places, still stands downtown.

Yorkville exploded during the suburban boom - its population jumped 173 percent in a single decade, from 6,189 in 2000 to 16,921 in 2010, while Kendall County was the fastest-growing county in the entire United States over that span.

The 2020 census counted 21,533 people in Yorkville living in 7,414 households, and the city covers just over 20 square miles, making it one of the largest Chicago suburbs by land area.

Yorkville is home to Raging Waves, which bills itself as the largest waterpark in Illinois; it opened in 2008 on about 45 acres of land.

The Marge Cline Whitewater Park, which opened on the Fox River in 2010, is the only whitewater park of its kind in Illinois, offering freestyle and slalom kayaking and river tubing.

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company runs a large manufacturing plant in Yorkville and invested about $50 million to expand it by 145,000 square feet to produce Skittles candy there.

Students in Yorkville are served by Yorkville Community Unit School District 115, whose schools include Yorkville High School and Yorkville Middle School.