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Burr Ridge, IL
Burr Ridge
(formerly Harvester) is an affluent
suburb of Chicago, in Cook and DuPage
Counties, Illinois. The population was
10,408 at the 2000 census.
Burr Ridge lies in both Du Page and Cook
Counties. The village is bordered by
Darien, Hinsdale, Indian Head Park, La
Grange, Western Springs, Willowbrook,
and several unincorporated areas.
Incorporated Village in 1956.
County; State DuPage, Cook; Illinois
Township Hinsdale, Lyons
Government Council-manager
Mayor Gary A. Grasso
Population (2000) 10,408 (up 35.72% from
1990)
Pop. density 625.9/km� (1,620.1/mi�)
Zip code(s) 60527
Area code 630 and 331
Land area 16.9 km� (6.5 mi�)
Income Per capita: $78,518
Household: $189,507
Home value Mean: $527,908 (2000)
Median: $458,700
Website
www.burr-ridge.gov
Burr Ridge's gently rolling hills were
carved by glaciers at the end of the
last ice age, and most of the village
lies on the Valparaiso Moraine. Flagg
Creek, a tributary of the Des Plaines
River, runs through town.
Joseph Vial erected a log cabin near
Wolf and Plainfield Roads in 1834. Vial
also ran a hotel on the stagecoach line,
and the Vial family was actively
involved in Lyons Township politics and
the creation of the Lyonsville
Congregational church. The first
Democratic Convention in Cook County was
held here in 1835. After 1848, farmers
shipped their goods to Chicago along the
Illinois and Michigan Canal. A small
settlement of German farmers also
inhabited Flagg Creek by the 1880s.
In 1917 the International Harvester
Company purchased 414 acres (1.7 km�)
for an experimental farm, where it
tested the world's first all-purpose
tractor, the Farmall. Also in 1917, the
Cook County Prison Farm (also known as
the Bridewell Farm) began operation in
what is now Burr Ridge.
In 1947 developer Robert Bartlett, whose
company also developed Beverly Shores
and Countryside, established the
Hinsdale Countryside Estates out of a
former pig farm. In 1956 these residents
decided to incorporate as the village of
Harvester, in honor of International
Harvester.
In the 1940s Denver Busby bought 190
acres (0.8 km�) that became known as the
Burr Ridge dairy farm. He later launched
the Burr Ridge Estates, with five-acre
home sites. In 1961 the International
Harvester Company and the Burr Ridges
Estates merged with Harvester, changing
the community's name to Burr Ridge. The
town name is derived from a group of bur
oaks (scientists spell it with one r) on
a ridge. By 1963 the population had more
than doubled, to 790, and by 1975 it had
soared to over 2,200.
In 1969, Chicago
Mayor Richard J. Daley floated a
proposal to build low-income subsidized
housing on the prison farm property, but
Republican-dominated DuPage County
squashed the idea. The prison farm site
became the Ambriance subdivision, a
gated community of multimillion-dollar
homes. Other farms gave way to the
Carriage Way subdivision, and in 1971
additional farmland became the Braemoor
neighborhood. An area known as Valley
View, once owned by a Chicago
industrialist and later by the Chicago
chapter of the Boy Scouts of America,
was developed in the early 1970s as the
Burr Ridge Club. The village also has
five corporate parks. As with other
towns in the industrial corridor
southwest of Chicago, close proximity to
Interstates 294 and 55 spurred
development in Burr Ridge.
Burr Ridge Schools
Primary schools
Burr Ridge Community Consolidated School
District 180 (Anne M. Jeans Elementary
School, Burr Ridge Middle School)
Gower School District 62 (Gower West
Elementary School, Gower Middle School)
Hinsdale School District 181 (Elm
School, Hinsdale Middle School)
Pleasantdale School District 107 (Pleasantdale
Elementary School, Pleasantdale Middle
School)
High schools
Hinsdale Township High School District
86 (Hinsdale Central High School,
Hinsdale South High School)
Lyons Township High School District 204
Community Colleges
Community College
District #502 (College of DuPage)
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