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Before European settlement the region was home to the Sauk, Meskwaki, Potawatomi and Kickapoo. In the mid-19th century settlers came from the eastern United States and from Germany, many of them from Schaumburg and Schaumburg-Lippe in present Lower Saxony. Among the earliest were Trumball Kent and Johann Sunderlage. According to one legend, Sunderlage was on a survey team that divided Cook County into townships around 1833, according to another he worked on a survey of the Joliet canal, and liking the area, he went back to Europe and returned with family and friends around 1836 to settle in what is now Hoffman Estates. His house still stands on its original site.

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The original township survey of 1842 names a grove near the center of the township Sarah's Grove. At a township meeting in 1850, as citizens debated a new name, the wealthy landowner Friedrich Heinrich Nerge slammed his fist on the table and shouted in Low German, "Schaumburg schall et heiten!" ("It will be called Schaumburg!"), and the township took that name. The population grew steadily more German. In 1840 most households had come from the eastern United States, but by the 1850s German immigrants were the largest group. Sources Wikipedia: Schaumburg, Illinois