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Buffalo Grove
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village in Cook and Lake counties, Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Lake and Cook
- Townships
- Vernon and Wheeling
- Type
- Council–manager
- Village president
- Eric Smith
- Village board
- Trustees Lester A Ottenheimer David Weidenfeld Joanne Johnson Frank Cesario Denice Bocek Kevin Richards
- Total
- 9.58 sq mi (24.81 km )
- Land
- 9.56 sq mi (24.77 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 682 ft (208 m)
- Density
- 4,518.6/sq mi (1,744.63/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Area code s
- 847 and 224
- Fips code
- 17-09447
- Website
- www .vbg .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Buffalo Grove is a village in Lake and Cook Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Downtown Chicago and 20 miles (32 km) north of O'Hare International Airport. As of the 2020 Census, Buffalo Grove has a population of 43,212. It totals 9.6 square miles (25 km) of land, with the top three-quarters in Lake County and the bottom quarter in Cook County. Roads in the village such as Lake Cook Road and Illinois Route 83 converge on I-294. It is part of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.
Before European colonization, Native American Potawatomi tribes inhabited the present area. The name "Buffalo Grove" comes from the English translation of the Potawatomi name for Buffalo Creek, which flows through some of the village. Initial Homesteaders sold their land to agricultural Catholic German immigrants, who established St. Mary's Church and a school. The area remained small and rural in character until housing developers began building single-family houses after the Korean War. After being incorporated in 1958, Buffalo Grove experienced a population boom for the rest of the 20th century. The village hosted a 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2008.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buffalo Grove” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.