| Antioch is a
village in the Antioch Township of Lake County, Illinois,
United States. The population was approx. 13,400 as
of the 2005 Illinois Census[1]. Antioch is part of the
Chicago metropolitan area.
The Pottawatomi Indian Tribe,
nomadic hunters who lived in tepees, inhabited Antioch
when white men began to arrive. They fought with the
British in the War of 1812 and then with the American
settlers in the Blackhawk War of 1832.
The first permanent white settlement
in Antioch was the Gage Brothers' cabin on Sequoit Creek,
a tributary of the Fox River. In 1839, Hiram Buttrick
built a sawmill along the creek, making Antioch a center
of commerce. A replica of the mill has been built a
few hundred feet downstream from where it once stood.
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The influence of the Gage brothers
is important when trying to understand the history and
names of the Antioch area, as many local businesses,
as well as ACHS sports teams, bare the word "Sequoit."
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