Arlington Heights (Illinois)
Cook County Lake County
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Arlington Heights is a village in Cook County and Lake County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Arlington Heights is located in the metropolitan Chicago region. With its 76 031 inhabitants, which it had in 2003, it is the largest village of the United States, the neighboring village of Schaumburg follows in second place.
The village is particularly well known for Arlington Park Racecourse.
Geography
Arlington Heights is a suburb of Chicago, located 25 miles northwest of the city on U.S. Highway 14 This is also the highest natural elevation of the State of Illinois - Nickol Knoll. There is a golf course on it.
History
As the General Land Office in 1835 in this area began to sell land, were most of the buyers Yankees. 1853 persuaded William Dunton, the Union Pacific Railroad to build a stop here and founded a town called Dunton.
When the village was incorporated in 1887 as Arlington Heights, its population was over 1000 inhabitants. Most residents were farmers, but there were also residents who worked in Chicago. Arlington Heights was early a suburb for commuters.
The village soon developed religious institutions, which reflected the origins of the inhabitants. The first churches were Presbyterian (1856 ) and Methodist (1858 ), followed by a German Lutheran church in 1860. Catholics had no church until 1905.
Around the turn of the century Arlington Heights had about 1,400 inhabitants. To 1927, the California millionaire Harry D. "Curly " Brown founded the racecourse on a land area, which previously consisted of 12 farms. The population grew strongly in the 1950s and 1960s, when large parts of the population acquired a car and the economy of Chicago developed strongly. By 1970, the population grew by some incorporations at 64 884.
Demography
According to the United States Census 2000, there were 76 031 inhabitants in 30,763 households. The population was composed of 90.56 % White, 5.98 % Asian, and 0.96% Black. Hispanics or Latinos represented 4.46% of the population. The per capita income was 33 544 U.S. dollars and 2.5 % of the population lived below the poverty line.
Traffic
Arlington Heights has two stops on the Union Pacific / Northwest Line of the Metra, which ensure a daily shuttle service between Harvard and Chicago. The village has access to Interstate 90 and Illinois State Route 53 ( northern extension of Interstate 290), which provides a connection to the nearby O'Hare International Airport, the city of Chicago and other suburbs.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Lee Strobel (* 1952), journalist, pastor and author
- Brian McBride (born 1972 ), football player
- Tim McIlrath ( born 1979 ), lead singer of Rise Against
- Tom Price Sing ( born 1978 ), ice hockey player
- Jonathan Spector ( born 1986 ), football player