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Berwyn is a suburban city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, coterminous similar to Berwyn Township, which was formed in 1908 after breaking off from Cicero Township. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a sum population of 57,250.

Before inborn settled, the home that is now Berwyn was traversed by Native American trails. The most important trails converged close the Chicago portage, and two notable routes crossed what is today Berwyn. A branch of the Trail to Green Bay crossed Berwyn at what is now Riverside Drive, and the Ottawa Trail spanned the southern halt of the city.

In 1846, the first house in “Berwyn” was deeded to Theodore Doty, who built the 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) Plank Road from Chicago to Ottawa along the Ottawa Trail. The trail had been used as a French and Indian trade route and more recently as a stagecoach route to Lisle. This thoroughfare became what is now Ogden Avenue in South Berwyn. In 1856, Thomas F. Baldwin purchased 347 acres (1.40 km²) of land, bordered by what is now Ogden Avenue, Ridgeland Avenue, 31st Street, and Harlem Avenue, in hopes of developing a rich and aristocratic community called “LaVergne”. However, few people were enthusiastic in grassy marshland. Mud Lake extended nearly to the southern affix of today’s Berwyn, and the estate regularly flooded during stuffy rains. The unaided mode of transportation to LaVergne was horse and buggy upon the Plank Road.

To incite people to shape to LaVergne, Baldwin sold an 80-foot-wide (24 m) strip of property to the Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1862. The rail descent opened in 1864, but the train did not stop regularly in the area. The railroad refused to build a station, so the residents of the area constructed LaVergne Station upon Ridgeland Avenue in 1874.