Hinckley is a village in Squaw Grove Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States.

The following year, more families came to the area and a small town was started at the west edge of what is now Hinckley, which was named Squaw Grove.

The rail line was placed one-half mile east of the Village of Squaw Grove, which was then named Hinckley.

[3] On January 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first road game in Hinckley.

In 1981, Hinckley served as a stand-in for fictional North Crawford in Jonathan Demme's film adaptation of Who Am I This Time?

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.[10] Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon portray two painfully shy people who find one another through a community theater production of "A Streetcar Named Desire", in which they portray the tempestuous Stanley and Stella Kowalski.