Fullersburg is a former village in Downers Grove Township and

York Township, DuPage County, Illinois York Township is one of nine townships in DuPage County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 123,449 and it contained 51,557 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which ...

near the

Cook County Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40% of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 20 ...

border. Though never incorporated in its own name, the area is historically important to the development of Hinsdale and

Oak Brook, Illinois Oak Brook is a village mostly in DuPage County with a small portion in Cook County in Illinois. Per the 2020 census, the population was 8,163. This suburb of Chicago has the headquarters of several companies and organizations including Ace Ha ...

. in The area was originally called Brush Hill and was claimed by Orente Grant when the Indian land in Illinois was ceded to the United States government in the

1833 Treaty of Chicago The 1833 Treaty of Chicago struck an agreement between the United States government that required the Chippewa Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes cede to the United States government their of land (including reservations) in Illinois, the Wiscon ...

. in Benjamin Fuller, of Broome County, New York, arrived in 1835 with his parents Jacob and Candace Fuller and some other relatives, and settled at Ginger Creek at what later became Spring Road in Oak Brook.This appears to be the areas that are now Hamburger University and Kensington Road in survey section 26 in Oak Brook: Before the McDonald's campus, Spring Road continued through, along what is now the section of Ronald Lane east of what is now Hamburger University. Ben Fuller built a house in 1840 on what is now York Road. (By 1985, this Fuller House had moved into the Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve from its original location.) By 1851, he owned most of the area, and in 1851 subdivided and platted; the name changed from Brush Hill to Fullersburg.

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