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Walworth is a village in Walworth County in far southeastern Wisconsin, located only about two miles north of the Illinois state line and roughly 65 miles northwest of Chicago.

The village sits entirely within the separate Town of Walworth, and covers just 1.54 square miles of land.

The 2020 census counted 2,759 people in the Village of Walworth, following a decade of rapid growth in which the population jumped from 2,304 in 2000 to 2,816 in 2010, when the village had 1,068 households.

Walworth is home to Kikkoman's first factory in the United States, which opened in 1972 — Kikkoman was the first Japanese company to open a factory in America, producing soy sauce in the middle of Wisconsin farm country.

Walworth was once the northern terminus of the Milwaukee Road's commuter train service from Chicago, until service was cut back to Fox Lake, Illinois, in 1982 when Metra took over the route.

A post office has served Walworth since 1846, and the first town meeting of the surrounding town was held on Big Foot Prairie in 1843.

Walworth students attend Big Foot High School, a union high school established in 1959 that draws from the villages of Fontana, Sharon and Walworth and four surrounding townships.

Big Foot High School is named not for the legendary creature but for Big Foot (Maumksuck), a Potawatomi leader who lived along Geneva Lake — originally called Big Foot Lake — until his people were forcibly relocated in 1836.

Walworth's first school, Big Foot Academy, was completed in 1857 and doubled as the Seventh Day Baptist place of worship for fifteen years; parts of its successor school building date to 1902.

Walworth Elementary School serves about 575 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in the village.