Deerfield, Illinois Deerfield Deerfield Historic Village Township West Deerfield, Moraine Location of Deerfield inside Illinois Location of Deerfield inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Deerfield, Illinois Deerfield is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States, approximately 25 miles north of Chicago.
Deerfield is home to the command posts of Walgreens, Baxter Healthcare, Business Technology Partners, APAC Customer Services, Fortune Brands, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Consumers Digest, and Mondelez International.
Deerfield High School is one of the top high schools in the state, ranking #5 in 2012. Deerfield is represented by the 10th Congressional District of Illinois (Democrat Brad Schneider), 29th District of the Illinois Senate (Democrat Julie Morrison) and the 58th District of the Illinois House of Representatives (Democrat Scott Drury).
4 Deerfield Historic Village According to the 2010 census, Deerfield has a total region of 5.62 square miles (14.56 km2), of which 5.58 square miles (14.45 km2) (or 99.29%) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (or 0.71%) is water. Within a decade, settler John Millen proposed a further name change to Deerfield with respect to his hometown, Deerfield, Massachusetts and the large number of deer living in the area.
Deerfield won by a vote of 17-13. The village's first school, Wilmot School, was established in 1847.
It is positioned on territory donated by Lyman Wilmot, whose wife, Clarissa, was the village's first school teacher. The village was incorporated in 1903 with a populace in the low 400s.
In the 1850s, the Deerfield home of Lyman Wilmot served as a stop on the Underground Railroad as escaped slaves attempted to get to Canada. Tallmadge of the American Institute of Architects, Deerfield (and adjoining Highland Park) served as the center for a new proposed capital town/city of the United States. By that year, all of Deerfield's initial farms had been converted either to residentiary areas or golf courses. On May 26, 1944, a US Navy plane crashed in Deerfield on the current site of the Deerfield Public Library, killing Ensign Milton C.
Pickens. Following World War II, a portion of Waukegan Road (Route 43) that runs through Deerfield has been designated a Blue Star Memorial Highway. In 1959, when Deerfield officials learned that a developer building a neighborhood of large new homes prepared to make homes available to African Americans, they issued a stop-work order.
For a brief time, Deerfield was spotlighted in the nationwide news as "the Little Rock of the North." Supporters of integration were denounced and ostracized by angry residents.
At the time, Deerfield's black populace was 12 citizens out of a total populace of 11,786. This episode in Deerfield's history is described in But Not Next Door by Harry and David Rosen, both inhabitants of Deerfield.
Since the early 1980s, Deerfield has seen a large influx of Jews, Asians, and Greeks, giving the improve a more diverse cultural and ethnic makeup. In 1982, Deerfield began an experiment with a improve farm. Two hundred inhabitants applied for plots on a 3-acre (12,000 m2) improve garden.
In November 2007, Business - Week.com listed Deerfield third in a list of the 50 best places to raise children. The rankings were based on five factors: school test scores, cost of living, recreational and cultural activities, number of schools and threat of crime.
Deerfield ranked behind Groesbeck, Ohio, and Western Springs, Illinois.
Deerfield Historic Village Located in front of Kipling Elementary School is the Deerfield Historic Village, established and maintained by the Deerfield Area Historical Society, this outside museum consists of five historic buildings and includes the command posts for the Deerfield Historical Society. While those buildings are all initial (although relocated from their initial sites), the carriage home and little red school home are replicas. Each year, all fourth graders in precinct 109 spend a day learning in the school home. In 1998, a momentous portion of the Deerfield downtown region (comprising a then-outdated shopping center called the Deerfield Commons and the former Deerfield Savings and Loan) was completed and replaced with a new outside shopping district, Deerfield Square, sometimes called "The Square" or "The Commons" by some Deerfield residents.
In addition to merchandising space, Deerfield Square includes office space and an outside plaza which is used amid the summer for no-charge outside concerts.
Cadwell's Corners was mostly empty of stores by 2011, and the Deerfield Public Library chose the locale for a temporary library amid renovation of their initial building. Since Fresh Thyme moved in in June 2014, Cadwell's Corners has filled in. During both the 1982 and 1987 NFL players' strikes, Deerfield High School served as the practice field for the Chicago Bears players locked out of Halas Hall.
The Chicago Bulls formerly practiced at the Berto Center in Deerfield.
Previously, the Bulls practiced at the Multiplex, which was closed for many years and reopened in 2009 by the Deerfield Park District as the Sachs Recreation Center.
A number of current and past Bulls players and staff have lived in Deerfield, including Will Perdue, John Paxson, and Ron Artest.
The village hall is called the Bernard Forrest Deerfield Village Hall. The United States Postal Service operates the Deerfield Post Office. As of 1987 the office leasing activeness in Deerfield increased tremendously, and throughout the 1980s office buildings were advanced along Lake-Cook Road, between Interstate 294 and Waukegan Road.
Deerfield is home to the command posts of Baxter Healthcare, Beam, Big Apple Bagels, CF Industries, Consumers Digest, Cosi, Fortune Brands Home & Security, Mondelez International, United Stationers, and Walgreens Boots Alliance, As of 2009 Walgreens working 5,200 citizens at its headquarters. As of 2003 Baxter working a total of 1,000 employees in its command posts and in other offices in Deerfield. Deerfield was at one time the bakery division command posts of the Sara Lee Corporation. In 1987 Sara Lee had about 1,200 employees in Deerfield.
In 1990, the Deerfield Sara Lee plant and bakery command posts was closed, and the territory was sold to developers. During 1987, Baxter Travenol (later Baxter International) had about 1,500 employees and Walgreens, then in an unincorporated region near Deerfield, had about 1,100 employees. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan visited the Sara Lee factory in Deerfield. Deerfield homes the command posts of some U.S.
Subsidiaries of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, including Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc., Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., and Takeda Global Research & Development Center, Inc. According to Deerfield's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 7 Deerfield School District 109 412 As of 1987 Deerfield was mostly made up of single-family homes.
As of that year the resale prices of Deerfield homes ranged from $100,000 to $300,000.
Deerfield is served by Deerfield Public Schools School District 109, which operates four enhance elementary schools (Kipling, South Park, Walden, and Wilmot) and two enhance middle schools (Caruso and Shepard). The village is also home to one Roman Catholic school (Holy Cross School), one Conservative Jewish school (Rochelle Zelle Jewish Hishschool/Chicagoland Jewish High School), and two Montessori schools.
The majority of Deerfield's kids go on to attend Deerfield High School; however, a small portion attend Highland Park High School (both of which comprise School District 113).
(the initial Deerfield Grammar School positioned on Deerfield Road was torn down to build the District Offices) were all closed beginning in the 1970s through the 1980s and their students combined by the four larger, remaining elementary schools.
Deerfield has one sister city: Cory Everson, a public model and bodybuilder, lived in Deerfield as a teenager Fred Meyer, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, 1988 to 1994, born in Deerfield in 1927 Art Shay, prolific photojournalist, lived in Deerfield for 50 years Weigle, photographer for Chicago Tribune amid First World War, lived and died in Deerfield In 1979, Deerfield created a "No-Kissing Zone" at the small-town train station in response to complaints about traffic jams at the station caused by couples taking too long to kiss their goodbyes at the drop-off point. The "No-Kissing" signs (patterned after global traffic signs) thriving nationwide attention and were featured in Time periodical and ABC's AM America (precursor to "Good Morning America").
A Deerfield family appearing on the game show Family Feud presented Richard Dawson with replica pins of the signs.
In the 1980s, Deerfield and other North Shore communities inspired the teen films of director/screenwriter John Hughes.
The fictional Shermer, Illinois, encompassed elements of Deerfield and neighboring Northbrook and Highland Park.
A number of media properties have been set and/or filmed in Deerfield, including tv drama Once and Again, comedy Married...
With Children and portions of reality show American High. In film, the Deerfield train station is shown in the film Risky Business, and Stolen Summer used various parts of the village.
Deerfield also figures in the musical Dear Edwina, written by Marcy Heisler, a Deerfield native, and Zina Goldrich.
In 2010, the History Channel's documentary The Crumbling of America mentioned Deerfield in a discussion of incessant blackouts that inhabitants experienced over 2000 times from 2000 to 2009. Deerfield has two Metra stations connecting it to downtown Chicago, both on the Milwaukee District/North Line.
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