26 Business View Magazine - April 2016
Arlington Heights, Illinois
City of good neighbors
Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburban community in
Cook County, lies about 25 northwest of downtown
Chicago. It was founded in 1887, when its population
consisted of about 1,000 local farmers, and work-
ers who commuted to the Windy City. Today, Arlington
Heights is home to 75,000 and a daytime population
of approximately 46,000; it is the most populous com-
munity in the United States that is incorporated as a
“village.”
But while the designation, “village,” might suggest a
quaint and quiet refuge from the more grandiose forms
of civilization, Village President, Thomas W. Hayes, dis-
putes that characterization to some degree by pointing
