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Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Elk Grove Village is in Cook County.

About Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Elk Grove Village is a planned suburb in Cook and DuPage counties, incorporated in 1956 and located about 22 miles northwest of Chicago, that separates residential neighborhoods from the massive business park at the western edge of O'Hare.

History of Elk Grove Village

• Home to the largest consolidated business park in North America.

Landmarks and Places in Elk Grove Village

• Elk Grove Village Business Park. Largest consolidated business park in North America, with roughly 3,600 businesses near O'Hare International Airport.
• Busse Woods elk herd. Enclosed elk pasture maintained since 1925, the namesake attraction for which the village is named.
• Ned Brown Forest Preserve (Busse Woods). Roughly 3,500-acre Forest Preserves of Cook County site with a lake, paved trail and the resident elk herd.

Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, fpdcc.com

More About Elk Grove Village

Centex Corporation built most of the original homes, and the plan kept houses and industry in separate parts of the village.

Many major streets carry the names of the German farm families who worked the land before the village was built.

Busse Farm, between Higgins Road and Oakton Street, was the last farmland left in the village.

William Busse brought the first elk by train from Montana in the 1920s, and Chicago Zoological Society veterinarians care for the herd today.

The business park's Makers Wanted slogan became part of the Bahamas Bowl college football game's name in 2018.

Students east of I-290 attend Elk Grove High School, while those west of it attend James B. Conant High School.

Pace Route 223 links the village with the Rosemont 'L' station.

Source: en.wikipedia.org