Rolling Meadows, Illinois

== History == In 1836, Orrin Ford became the first landowner in the area that is now Rolling Meadows, staking his claim of 160 acres (0.65 km2) in an area known as Plum Grove.

The community became part of the newly formed Palatine Township in 1850 as German immigrants arrived.

In 1862, the Salem Evangelical Church was built, and the church's 40-square-foot (3.7 m2) cemetery still exists at the corner of Kirchoff and Plum Grove roads.

In 1953, the first families moved into the development, which Hill named Rolling Meadows, and 700 houses were sold by 1955, mostly to blue-collar workers.

He also founded the Rolling Meadows Homeowners' Association and donated land for parks, as well as funded the Clearbrook Center, which is a home for individuals with cognitive d...

Crawford's department store opened in 1957 and was the largest in the northwest suburbs, although it closed in 1994.

An industrial park opened on North Hicks Road in 1958, and Western Electric opened a facility in the 1960s, employing 1,500 workers.

Developers saturated the area with apartment buildings, and by 1970, multifamily dwellings made up 35 percent of the total structures in Rolling Meadows.

By 2000, the city had begun revamping commercial areas along Kirchoff Road.

Colette School was awarded as a 2007 Blue Ribbon School from the U.S.