Campton Hills is officially annexing land currently part of an unincorporated community in Kane County into the village, as a local developer plans to build up to 900 housing units on the property.

Following months of discussion, and despite some opposition at a public hearing, the village board voted at a special meeting on Sept. 4 to annex the land the residential development would be built on into the village, and to approve an annexation agreement between the village, the property’s current owner and Geneva-based developer Shodeen Group.

This move represents the next step in the project eventually coming to fruition, but it’s not the last: the project still needs to go through the village’s zoning approval process, and Campton Hills is in the process of considering whether to creat

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