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Romeoville traces its origins to the banks of the Des Plaines River, where the village of Romeo was first settled in 1835 near Isle a la Cache, a small island in the river. The community was named for the Shakespeare character Romeo, and a neighboring settlement was named Juliet, reflecting a Shakespearean naming theme of the canal era. When the Illinois and Michigan Canal was completed in 1848, new residents were drawn to the area. Juliet was later renamed Joliet for the explorer Louis Jolliet, while Romeo eventually charted its own course, and on January 19, 1895, residents voted to incorporate and changed the village's name to Romeoville.

Romeoville and nearby Joliet became known as 'Stone City' thanks to their prosperous limestone quarries, and the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, unveiled in 1888, was constructed largely of local limestone. Lewis University was established on the outskirts of town in 1934. In 1950, Romeoville had roughly 46 homes and a population of 147, remaining sparsely populated until 1957, when more than 600 acres of wetlands along IL-53 became the Hampton Park Subdivision. After the first I-55 and Weber Road interchange opened in 1990, the Weber Road corridor rapidly suburbanized, and the village added more than 25,000 new residents over two decades.