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Vernon Hills
The popularity of Vernon Hills, 38 miles
north of the Loop, has increased rapidly
in recent years, and for good reason. Some
of the family-centered, Vernon Hills life
style include affordable housing, a highlyregarded
school system, a fine
park district, an on-going tree-planting
program and continual development of
business parks.
Businesses are attracted to Vernon Hills
because of the community’s fast approval
process and high development standards.
Corporate Woods Parks and Continental
Executive Park are two of Vernon Hills’
business parks, spanning more than 800
acres. The community is also known as
a large retail center.
With the fine and
expansive Hawthorn Center and a number
of newer of newer strip malls boasting
such stores as Carson Pirie Scott, Circuit
City, Kohl’s, and Marshall Field’s, the
Vernon Hills retail community has much
to be proud of. There are two large, movie
theater complexes and a nice and varied
selection of restaurants in town, as well.
The park district has a community center
and 314 acres of parks.
Other facilities
include fourteen ball fields, seven picnic
shelters, ten playgrounds, multi-use
athletic fields, three outdoor skating rinks
and a sled hill. The village provides a
nine-hole golf course, eight tennis courts,
and a new $1.5 million aquatic center
featuring a zero-depth pool and sand play
area. The community also offers the
Arbor Theater, a $1.5 million outdoor theater
surrounded by lush gardens.
Housing
Vernon Hills offers homes
to accommodate nearly all budgets and
tastes. Styles include traditional and
contemporary as well as Colonials,
ranches, split-levels and Cape Cods.
Home prices ranged from $200,000
to over 1 Million. The 2006 average
home value was $508,119.
Schools
Vernon Hills is served by school
District 73,128 and 125. Most elementary
age students attend Hawthorn Community
Consolidated School District 73. High
school students attend Libertyville and
Stevenson High School in District 128
and 125.
Transportation
The Tri-State Tollway
(I-94) is nearby. U.S. 45 and Milwaukee
Avenue (I-21) run through Vernon Hills.
Travel time to the Loop is 50 minutes.
Drivers reach O’Hare in 30 minutes,
and Midway Airport is 90 minutes away.
Metra commuters board the train at the
Vernon Hills station and arrive in the
Loop in about 55 minutes. Bus service
is available.
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