Glendale Heights Illinois Real Estate

Glendale Heights, Illinois.
By Julie Farby

Located in DuPage County, Illinois, about 23 miles west of the Chicago Loop, the Village of Glendale Heights is a fast-growing community, offering its residents an abundance of amenities within a friendly, small-town atmosphere. With a current population of approximately 29,000 and a projected population of a little over 34,500 by the year 2010, according to the U.S. Census, Glendale Heights is a “relatively young community, which was incorporated less than half a century ago in 1959.” Despite its youth, Glendale Heights has worked hard to improve its infrastructure, and according to VillageProfile.com, in recent years, the Village of Glendale Heights has “issued 16 million dollars in bonds to fund major improvements.”

Glendale Heights remained a prosperous agricultural area until the late 1950s, when residential subdivisions began to replace farmland. “With the exception of Glen Ellyn Countryside—which became Glendale Height's first subdivision in 1951—Glendale Heights remained largely rural until 1958,” according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago. In 1959 residents voted to incorporate as the village of Glendale, which was renamed Glendale Heights the following year. Glendale Heights also had no churches of its own, until St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church was established in the early 1960s. Through the twentieth century, Glendale Heights had no central business district or main street. However, a civic center was finally completed in the 1970s, and a library and a sports complex offer their services to the community.

Today, this ethnically diverse village contains the public Glendale Heights Polo Club, numerous parks, and the Glen Oaks Hospital.

According to VillageProfile.com, “with its location and proximity to expressways and major arterial roadways, Village residents have access to many shopping areas.” Most are concentrated in the northwest and southwest corners of the community to serve residents of neighboring towns as well. Stratford Square, a 1.1 million square foot regional mall with six department stores, is just five minutes away. And, Woodfield Mall, one of the largest in the nation and now a major corporate office center, is just ten minutes away on the expressway. In addition, many small convenience shopping centers are scattered throughout the Village, serving virtually every neighborhood.

Another famous landmark in Glendale Heights is the Village-owned public golf course. “Opened in 1987, the Glendale Lakes Golf Course is an 18-hole course that has been written up in Golf Digest as one of the more challenging public golf courses in Illinois.” Besides diverse business and retail opportunities, the “Glendale Heights Chamber of Commerce is a dedicated supporter of education, offering scholarships to local high school students who otherwise could not afford the costs of higher education.”

According to the Glendale Heights Village community, “one of the most appealing qualities for which people choose to live here is the people.” It is a community where neighbors care about neighbors and where "quality of life" is created by the dedication of its citizens. Among its advantages Glendale Heights offers a wide variety of affordable single-family housing, spanning the spectrum of cozy ranch homes, raised-ranches, split level and large two-story styles. Single-family homes range in price from about $89,500 on up to $250,000, while townhouses, duplexes, and other types of attached single family housing range from $60,000 to $141,500.

Several attractive apartment communities in the Village include beautiful on-site clubhouses, swimming pools and sundecks, enclosed garage parking and both indoor and outdoor sports activities. One, two or three bedroom units rent from $450 to $1,350 a month.

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