Johnsburg is a northwest suburban Chicago village in McHenry County

McHenry County, Illinois

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, Illinois

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, United States

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. The population was 5,391 at the 2000 census

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The area was settled in the 1840s by immigrants from the Eifel

Eifel

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 region of Germany, predominantly the Mayen-Koblenz

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 district (Kreis), who named the settlement after their church. In 1956, a small subdivision on shore of the Fox River

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 incorporated as the Village of Sunnyside. Sunnyside then annexed the surrounding land in 1992 and renamed it Johnsburg.
Johnsburg is located at 42°23′9"N 88°14′9"W (42.385796, -88.235942).

According to the United States Census Bureau

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, the village has a total area of 6.1 square miles (15.8 km²), of which, 5.5 square miles (14.2 km²) of it is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km²) of it (9.49%) is water.