About Glenview Illinois 

Glenview has been my home for almost 3 decades. I have raised my children through Glenview's fantastic award winning school system. Throughout the years Glenview has evolved into a premier North Shore suburb for families. 

Farmers first came to the area in the 1830s. John Kennicott arrived from New England in 1836 and became the first physician to practice in the area. Kennicott also ran a nursery, and in 1856 he had as many as 134 varieties of apple trees along with various other trees and shrubs. His son, Robert, was a naturalist and explorer who traveled to Canada and Alaska under the sponsorship of institutions like the Smithsonian and the Chicago Academy of Sciences. The Kennicotts' 82-acre preserve, named the Grove and located on the village's west side on Milwaukee Avenue between Glenview Road and Lake Avenue, is a National Historic Landmark.  

Workers at Baxter Laboratories, 1942
The village was originally called South Northfield. In 1872 the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad laid a single track to the area and named the local station Glenview. A second track was added in 1892 to carry passengers to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. In the 1890s members of the Swedenborgian Church purchased 40 acres of the Clavey farm, located at the northwest corner of Lake and Telegraph (later Glenview and Shermer Roads). They built Victorian-style homes, a clubhouse, school, and church in a secluded, wooded area which they named the Park.  

In 1895 the village's residents adopted the name Glenview and in 1899 incorporated. Residents included the Swedenborgians, descendants of early Yankee settlers, and German farmers. Roadhouses and inns served commuters and area residents. Two of these establishments, the Blue Heron roadhouse (later Eleanore's of Glenview) and the Glenview House, continued to operate into the twenty-first century.  

In 1923 the Curtiss-Reynolds Airport was built. The property was condemned in the early 1940s to make way for the Glenview Naval Air Base, which eventually became the headquarters for the U.S. Naval and Marine Air Reserve Training Command. The base closed in 1995, and developers turned the site into a mixed residential and retail area. The base's golf course became part of Glenview Park District.  

By 1950 the population was 6,142. In 1967 the University of Illinois at Chicago purchased a five-acre parcel west of Greenwood and east of Milwaukee for use as a botanical laboratory and conservation area. Peacock Prairie, as it is called, is one of the last remnants of virgin prairie in the state of Illinois.  

By 2000 there were 41,847 residents were living in the 13 square miles that covered Glenview. Kraft Foods, Zenith Electronics, and Scott, Foresman & Co. situated their headquarters here. 

Glenview's most recent transformation took place in 2001 with the reconstruction of the Glenview Naval Air Base, renamed, The Glen. Originally opened as a commercial airport 9 days before the stock market crash in 1929. Struggling to stay afloat, original developers sold the airport to the Navy for one quarter of its construction cost. The Glenview Naval Air Station was a major facility present for years in Glenview. It was the host for a number of squadrons, including the Coast Guard Air/Sea rescue helicopter service for Chicago/Lake Michigan and a squadron of P-3 Orions which had the mission of East Coast antisubmarine warfare. The rationale for basing the Squadron there was that so many reserve staff were in the Central US, and it was convenient to base the facility near the staff. As a 1–2 hour checklist had to be executed before scanning the seas, there was actually little dead time in the flight to the coast. Many famous veterans were stationed at the Glenview Naval Airbase, such as George Bush.  

The giant Navy planes lumbering through the skies of the North Shore used to be a common sight in Glenview. Now, you'll be more likely to see a scratch golfer working on his swing or soccer moms (and dads) cheering their teams to victory. 

Never before has Chicago's north shore undergone such a dramatic transformation. 

Working with the city of Glenview, OliverMcMillan Co. had a vision for a redevelopment of the base that has resulted in the creation of parks, housing, recreational facilities, shops and entertainment - a vision that has won numerous awards and will continue to grow over the coming years. The Glen is was modeled as a New Urbanism community that features mixed use, walkability, and connectivity. It has truly been an asset to the Village of Glenview. 

About Northbrook Illinois 

Did you know... Northbrook was incorporated in 1901, the village was known as Shermerville in honor of Frederick Schermer, who donated the land for its first train station. The village changed its name to Northbrook in 1923 as an effort to improve its public image. The name was chosen because the west fork of the north branch of the Chicago River runs through the Village. 

Films Set in Northbrook 

Director John Hughes, a native of Northbrook, used the fictional town of "Shermer" as a setting for several of his films. David Kamp of Vanity Fair said "Hughes’s Shermer was partly Northbrook and partly a composite of all the North Shore’s towns and neighborhoods—and, by extension, all the different milieus that existed in American suburbia" and that Shermer "was at once an Everytown for every teen and an explicit homage to Hughes’s home turf, the North Shore suburbs above Chicago." Hughes and his family moved to Northbrook in 1962, and Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School.[18]
Many parts of Ferris Bueller's Day Off were filmed at Glenbrook North High School in the Fall of 1985 with students serving as extras (most of the interior shots, though, were filmed at the shuttered Maine North High School). The party scene from the film Uncle Buck was filmed at a house in the Highlands neighborhood, on Crabtree Lane. The grocery store scene in She's Having a Baby was filmed at Sunset Foods, and scenes in Ordinary People and Weird Science were shot at the Northbrook Court shopping mall. A small scene from the film Risky Business was shot at a highway ramp off the Edens Expressway.
Some interior shots from the 2005 Harold Ramis-directed film The Ice Harvest were filmed in a revamped commercial building off Commercial Avenue. 

Visit the village of Glenview website at www.glenview.il.us 

Visit the village of Northbrook at www.northbrook.il.us 

Visit the village of Wilmette at www.wilmette.com 

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