Vernon Hills, Illinois

== History == The land that was to become Vernon Hills, founded by Richard Theodore Freese, Ron Freese, Nathan Kowitt, and Jim Carswell, began with the establishment of a 200-ac...

During these times, the village and police department were run from a local motel until 1971 when village trustees bought two portable buildings.

By 1980, the village's population had grown to almost 10,000 residents, and by 2000, it had surpassed 20,000.

This included land that would become the Corporate Woods business park and Centennial Crossing residential development (1986), a 1,200-acre (4.9 km2) section of Hawthorne-Mellod...

== Parks and recreation == In 2000, the village acquired land that had belonged at different times to the U.S.

In 2006, Hawthorn Junior High School was formally divided into Hawthorn Middle School North and Hawthorn Middle School South.

The Evergreen Interim library, which was one of the District's two library facilities, closed on July 3, 2010.

In 2011 Vernon Hills had 4,858 persons of Asian ancestry, 19.3% of the village's population, the sixth highest percentage of Asians of any Chicago suburb.

=== Climate === == Demographics == As of the 2020 census there were 26,850 people, 10,006 households, and 7,218 families residing in the village.