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The rapid growth of the village allowed its limits to expand west of the Fox River into today's boundaries. [6] Oswego is known to some Chicago-area residents for the town dragstrip on State Route 34, which was open from 1955 until 1979, where muscle cars were raced by drivers from all over the Midwest.
Kendall County was listed as the fastest-growing county in the US from 2000 to 2009, experiencing a population growth rate of 110.4% in this period. [16] The reason for this growth is heavy suburbanization from the metropolitan Chicago area.
Illinois is the 13th-wealthiest of the 50 United States, with a per capita income of $37,728 according to the 2020 census. Illinois counties ranked by per capita income [ edit ]
The renewable energy economy has created 114,000 jobs in Illinois and will continue to see growth after a $15 billion investment from the Future Energy Jobs Act in 2016. [22] Governor J. B. Pritzker committed Illinois to the U.S. Climate Alliance in 2019 which will further drive economic growth in renewable energy across the state. [23]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
The main article for this category is List of towns and villages in Illinois; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Villages in Illinois; See also Illinois and categories Cities in Illinois, Towns in Illinois, Census-designated places in Illinois, Unincorporated communities in Illinois
The village includes land in Will County's Plainfield and Wheatland townships, as well as Na-Au-Say and Oswego townships in Kendall County. With the growth in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s, the village has seen a population increase, from 4,500 in 1990 to 28,000 in 2000 to nearly 45,000 in 2016.
Illinois Route 25 runs along the east side of the Fox River, also leading to Aurora and Oswego. According to the 2010 census, Montgomery has a total area of 9.512 square miles (24.64 km 2 ), of which 9.34 square miles (24.19 km 2 ) (or 98.19%) is land and 0.172 square miles (0.45 km 2 ) (or 1.81%) is water.