Northbrook, Illinois Northbrook, Illinois Northbrook is an well-to-do village on Chicago's North Shore, positioned at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, United States.
The village changed its name to Northbrook in 1923 as an accomplishment to advancement its enhance image.
Glenbrook North High School, established in 1953 as Glenbrook High School, is positioned in Northbrook.
The village is also home to the Northbrook Park District, established in 1927, Northbrook Court shopping mall, the Ed Rudolph Velodrome, the Chicago Curling Club, and the Northbrook Public Library.
7 Films set in Northbrook Members of the Potawatomi tribe were the earliest recorded inhabitants of the Northbrook area.
Afterwards Joel Sterling Sherman and his family bought 159 acres (64 ha) of territory in the northwest quarter of Section 10 for $1.25 per acre; as of 2010 Northbrook's downtown is positioned on this site.
In 1923 "Northbrook", the winner, was adopted; at the time Northbrook had 500 residents.
After the end of World War II, Northbrook's populace began to quickly increase. Between 1950 and 1980, the town's populace rose from 3,319 to 30,735.
Northbrook is positioned at 42 7 45 N 87 50 27 W (42.129226, 87.840715). According to the 2010 census, Northbrook has a total region of 13.255 square miles (34.33 km2), of which 13.19 square miles (34.16 km2) (or 99.51%) is territory and 0.065 square miles (0.17 km2) (or 0.49%) is water. Climate data for Northbrook, Illinois See also: Notable alumni of Glenbrook North High School.
Northbrook Village Hall The Village of Northbrook adopted a council manager form of government after a 1953 popular vote.
The village's board of trustees includes six trustees and the president; all of them must be inhabitants of Northbrook.
The United States Postal Service operates the Northbrook Post Office, the Northbrook Downtown Post Office, and the Techny Post Office. Northbrook had 15,613 working civilians as of the 2006 2008 census estimate, including 6,841 females.
The corporate command posts of Underwriters Laboratories and Crate & Barrel are positioned in Northbrook, as are the North American command posts of Astellas, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, and Bell Flavors & Fragrances, an global flavor and fragrance company.
According to Northbrook's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the village are: Kraft left Northbrook in early 2016 to downtown Chicago.
8 Northbrook Court 1,000 10 Northfield Township High School District 849 Director John Hughes, a native of Northbrook, used the fictional town of "Shermer" as a setting for a 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 suburbs 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. 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 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.
Shabonee School, District 27 Northbrook is served by multiple school districts.
The elementary school districts Northbrook School District 27, Northbrook School District 28, Northbrook/Glenview School District 30, and West Northfield School District 31 serve Northbrook and are headquartered in Northbrook. Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21, headquartered in Wheeling, also serves sections of Northbrook. District 27 operates three undertaking level centers in Northbrook, including Hickory Point School (K-2), Shabonee School (3 5), and Wood Oaks Junior High School.
District 28 operates three (K-5) elementary schools, Meadowbrook Elementary School, Greenbriar Elementary School, and Westmoor Elementary School, in Northbrook. Northbrook Junior High School (6-8) is the district's junior high in Northbrook. District 30 operates Wescott School (K-5) in Northbrook and Willowbrook School (K-5) in Glenview, both elementary schools serving Northbrook. Maple Middle School (6-8) in Northbrook is District 30's Junior High. The portion of Northbrook served by District 31 is served by Winkelman School, an elementary school in Glenview, and Field School, a middle school in Northbrook. Areas inside CCSD 21 are served by two schools, including Walt Whitman School, an elementary school in Wheeling, and Holmes Middle School in Wheeling. Northfield Township High School District 225 is the high school precinct serving Northbrook.
Glenbrook North High School is positioned in Northbrook, serving primarily most of Northbrook served completely by the first two districts, and some of the next two.
Glenbrook South High School is also in District 225, which mainly serves close-by Glenview, the part of District 31 in Northbrook and is Glenbrook North's chief rival school.
The region inside Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 is served by Township High School District 214, as part of Wheeling High School. Norbert Catholic School, a K-8 Catholic Grade School, is in Northbrook.
The Cove School, a K 12 school for disabled children, is in Northbrook.
Solomon Schechter, a K-8 Jewish school, is in Northbrook.
Countryside Montessori School, a K-8 private school, is in Northbrook.
Main article: Northbrook Public Library Northbrook Public Library is the enhance library of Northbrook.
The library operations were positioned in the reading room, Shermerville School, and the former village hall before the first dedicated library building was dedicated in 1954.
The Northbrook Park District, headquartered in Northbrook, operates recreational facilities. The 17.25-square-mile (44.7 km2) park district, formed in June 1927, serves all of Northbrook and some unincorporated areas inside Cook County.
Northbrook is connected to downtown Chicago by Metra's Milwaukee District/North Line, which has two stations: one at Shermer Road and another at Lake Cook Road.
Pace buses also serves Northbrook.
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