According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 13.1 square miles (34.0 kmÂ²), of which, 13.0 square miles (33.6 kmÂ²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 kmÂ²) of it (0.99%) is water. Palatine's shape resembles that of the head of an axe.
Shoeless Joe Jackson's real name was Joseph Jefferson Jackson. He  played an outfielder in Major League Baseball in the early 1900's.
JACKSON was a baptismal name 'the son of John' from the popular nickname Jake. This surname, one of the twenty five commonest in England, was brought to Ireland by numerous settlers but principally in the 17th Century to Ulster. Over one half of the Jacksons in Ireland are to be found in that province with the largest part of the remainder in and around the cities of Dublin and Cork.