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Pecatonica is a village in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. It is ration of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,195 at the 2010 census, up from 1,997 in 2000.

The village was named after the Pecatonica River, which forms its northern border. The word Pecatonica is an anglicization of two Algonquian language words; Bekaa (or Pekaa in certain dialects), which means slow and niba, which means water; forming the conjunction Bekaaniba or Slow Water. Civil War chronicles from the acknowledge of Illinois include soldiers from “Lysander”, the area’s common proclaim before assimilation by rail speculators.

The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, later the Chicago & North Western Railroad, came through in 1853 from Chicago and continued to Freeport, Illinois. That sparked the town to be the middle of commerce for western Winnebago County. The Village of Pecatonica was incorporated in 1869, built upon territory rightfully owned by Indians and in the past deeded to the Reed family by US President James K. Polk. C.W. Knowlton opened his first bank here in 1882 and built a Queen Anne Victorian house on Main Street, on the hill overlooking the situation district. This house still stands, after having been restored starting in the mid-1980s.

An electric interurban origin known as the Rockford & Interurban ran from Rockford through Winnebago, Illinois and Pecatonica to Ridott, Illinois and on to Freeport, starting in 1902, until the line’s eventual renunciation in 1930. A little depot building remains standing close the 300 block of Main Street. For the part of the rail line between Pecatonica and Winnebago, the pedigree often parallels the Pecatonica River.