As another harvest season ends, Kendall County residents don’t need eagle eyes to tell that things continue to rapidly change around these parts.

Although it paused following the 2008 real estate crash, Kendall’s growth has continued, with commercial and residential developments seeming to steadily replace ever more of the county’s farmland.

Between 2020 and 2024 alone, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Kendall County’s population grew by 8.18%, the highest percentage of growth of any Illinois county.

During that four-year span, the Census Bureau estimated that Kendall grew by almost 11,000 residents.

It’s good to keep in mind – sometimes difficult for those of us who grew up here when Kendall was a small, overwhelmingly rural agriculture-based county – that times and the region’s charac

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