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Shaw Media ran a story highlighting the history of Sugar Grove. Journalist Bryan Salvage wrote,

"In spring 1834, Asa McDole, brothers James and Isaac Isbell, plus nephew Parmeno Isbell, James Carmen and a man named Bishop camped together while…

"Meeting Development Halfway" is an article in the newspaper in 1986 about the sale of Bliss Wood Farm, which was homesteaded by Peleg Young Bliss in 1844, to develop Strafford Woods residential area.

“We have recently had the pleasure of a visit by a remarkable man, an native of Vermont, who has resided for many years at Sugar Grove, Illinois. Peleg Y. Bliss was one of ‘God’s poor,’ but by industry, temperance, integrity, wit and wisdom, he has…