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Homer Glen, IL
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Will County, 20 miles SW of the Loop. For 150 years after the first
Yankee
settlers arrived,
Will County's Homer Township remained essentially rural.
In 1988, however, residents proposed a new municipality to provide services and control development in the township's suburbanizing eastern half. Township voters finally agreed to incor- porate the 20-square-mile, 22,000-resident village of Homer Glen on April 3, 2001.
Bibliography
Heinzmann, David, and Stanley Ziemba. “Homer Glen Takes Charge; Incorporation Entices Voters Wary of Growth.”
Chicago Tribune,
April 4, 2001.
History of Will County, Illinois.
1878.
Richardson, Patricia. “It Takes a Village to Limit Growth: Upstart Homer Glen Wrestles with Sprawl.”
Crain's Chicago Business,
September 10, 2001.
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