New Lenox is located approximately 36 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. The Village is
about 14 square miles in area and is located in the center of New Lenox Township in the
east central portion of Will County. The City of Joliet borders immediately to the west
with the remainder of the Village surrounded by unincorporated Will County. Other nearby
communities include Mokena and Frankfort to the east and Manhattan to the south.
What is now the Village of New Lenox was first settled in the late 1820s, in the area of Gougar crossing ( Route 30 and Gougar Road ) and it was called VanHorne Point. New Lenox Township was established when Will County was created in 1852 with the building of the Rock Island Railroad between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois. Originally named Tracey in honor of the general superintendent of the Rock Island Railroad. Mr. Tracy later requested that the community be renamed. The first supervisor of the Rock Island Railway for New Lenox Township, John Van Duser, named the Township New Lenox from the town of Lenox, New York, which was Van Duser's home town. In 1863 the name for the new settlement officially became New Lenox after the Township.
On October 4, 1946, the State of Illinois officially certified that the Village of New Lenox was legally organized and incorporated as a Village in the State of Illinois.
According the the Village of New Lenox website one of the Village's advantages is access to
transportation networks. Drivers have easy access to U.S. Route 30 and I-80, which provides
connections with I-57 to the east and I-55 to the west. With I-355 ending in New Lenox, drivers
have access to the North-South Tollway, serving the western and northwestern Chicago Suburbs.
Drive time to the Loop is a 55 minute commute. Midway and O'Hare Airports are 35 and 45 minutes,
respectively. Rail commuters use the Metra/Rock Island District and travel time to the Loop
is about an hour from the New Lenox Metra Station. Pace bus route #506 provides service
between Joliet and the New Lenox Metra Station.
New Lenox also has one of the lowest tax rates in Will County (7.3750% per $100 assessed valuation). Over the past several years, the Village tax rate has steadily decreased creating an opportune climate for business expansion and development.
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