The town of Hampshire is located in Hampshire Township in Kane County Illinois. The Schlick family lived near Burlington, Illinois in Burlington Township in Kane County. The Village of Hampshire played an important role in the Schlick family history. The family attended the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Hampshire.

One excellent resource for Hampshire and area history is the Ella Johnson Memorial Library District located in a building on the main street of downtown Hampshire Illinois. The library has two excellent resources that I have used. The first is a digitized and searchable copies (1885 -2009) of the Hampshire Register newspaper via their website. The second source of visual and documentary information is the Library’s Illinois Digital Archive Ella Historical Collection. There are many historical photos available for research and viewing at the IDA website. Here is one example of a photo available at the IDA website.