| South Elgin is
a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States. The
population was 16,100 at the 2000 census, and estimated
to be 20,758 as of 2005. In July 2007, Money magazine
named South Elgin as 82 of 100 entries in its "America's
Best Places To Live" edition.
According to the United States
Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 6.4 square
miles (16.6 km²), of which, 6.3 square miles (16.3
km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²)
of it (1.87%) is water. South Elgin sits pretty in the
pleasant Fox River Valley. Once populated by Native
Indians South Elgin and the other boardering towns "Bartlett,
Elgin & St. Charles" have done well in preserving
this lands history. In 1811 and 1812 the Madrid fault
cracked causing the largest earthquake in the history
of the North American continent.
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