Algonquin is a village located in McHenry and Kane counties, Illinois, and is a suburb of Chicago. The village, incorporated in 1890, is known as “The Gem of the Fox River Valley”. The area was originally inhabited by the Potawatomi Native Americans, and the village derives its name from a series of Indian mounds that at the time of the village’s founding were known as the Algonquin Mounds.
