Frankfort is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States, with a small portion in Cook County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 20,296. According to Forbes.com, in 2007 the village ranked as the 36th fastest growing suburb in the United States. Frankfort is a suburb of Chicago. The Village is home to a park called Commissioners Park and some schools in the aerate of Lincoln-Way East High School and Dr. Julian Rogus School.

The name “Frankfort” was taken from Frankfort Township designated by the governing board of Will County. It was commonly known as “Frankfort Station” after the foundation of the Joliet & Northern Indiana Railroad through the township in 1855, though the attributed plat of the community antiquated March 1855 shows the reveal as “Frankfort”. Property achievement abstracts and railroad documents also accomplishment that the declare was always Frankfort. Local residents incorporated Frankfort as a village in 1879. It moreover has some citation to the major German city of Frankfurt.

First inhabited by Native Americans, including the Potawatomi and Sac and Fox tribes, Frankfort was used as a conduit along with the Des Plaines and St. Joseph rivers. Originally, the Place was ration of the Virginia Territory before the French signed a deal with Manitoqua, the Potawatomi chief, for home in the Prestwick area. The first pioneers came to Frankfort in the in advance 1830s by means of the Des Plaines River from the southwest and by wagon from the east along the Sauk Trail, a roadway that yet exists today.

William Rice, the first non-native settler, made a surviving settlement in Frankfort in 1831. While the first pioneers, coming mainly from the New England colonies, were mostly of English and Scottish descent, German settlers made the village of Frankfort a reality. Later in the 1840s German settlers migrated from Germany to Frankfort. They had fled gruff conditions in their homeland by coming to America and proved to be certainly industrious and experienced farmers as they soon bought most of the fruitful farm estate from the “Yankees”, who were more slanting to pay for services for local needs. Establishing both ownership and narcissism in the area, the German settlers implemented the first system of resident concern for local lands, which has been maintained ever since.