Village of Hanover Park

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The Village of Hanover Park is a dynamic and diverse community with over 38,500 residents, conveniently located 17 miles west of O’Hare International Airport, and a short trip from the Hanover Park Metra Station to downtown Chicago. Hanover Park was initially known as Ontarioville, which grew as a thriving community in the mid-to-late 1800s when a stagecoach line brought people from distant towns to the area. As the railroad built up, so did our town. Housing in Hanover Park has kept up with its population growth, which has more than tripled in size since 1970. While its roots as a settlement reach back into the 19th century, our growth into a community of nearly 12,000 families really started in the 1950's. Today, Hanover Park is a true family-oriented community that has some of the youngest residents of Chicago’s northwest suburbs with a median resident age of 33.

Hanover Park offers a great quality of life means with always something to do! Take advantage of amazing recreational facilities like Seafari Springs Aquatic Center which offers a zero-depth pool, 4 water slides, and a waterfall. Enjoy a baseball or football game at the Hanover Park Sports Complex or workout at Centre Courte Athletic Club at the Hanover Park Park District featuring services and facilities for tennis, racquetball, health and fitness. We encourage our residents to join the many neighborhood sports teams and check out the variety of community activities for all ages such as the Car and Motorcycle Show, Touch-a-truck, COPS Day Picnic, and our holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony. The Mallard Lake Forest Preserve or Hawk Hallow Forest Preserve are great places for the whole family to enjoy a walk, run, bike ride or simply take time to relax.

Our welcoming and pro-business attitude leads to a vibrant business environment, encompassing over 400 businesses with 4.6 million square feet of industrial development and over 1 million square feet of commercial retail and office space. Our community’s low commercial and industrial vacancy rates can be directly attributed to our great geographic location. In fact, Hanover Park is part of "The Golden Corridor," which is appropriately named because of its phenomenal rate of growth. Businesses that have taken advantage of Hanover Park’s great location and pro-business climate includes: Maines Paper and Food, Thermal Fischer Scientific, Fuji Film, Insight Technologies, Round Ground Metals (RGM), and Camcraft. Hanover Park is also home to major retailers such as Menards, Tony’s Finer Foods, Caputo’s Fresh Market, Harbor Freight, as well as a wide variety of small family-owned businesses and restaurants. Our lively economy and excellent quality of life is directly attributed to our great transportation system. Hanover Park offers easy access to the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway/IL-390, contains three active PACE Bus Routes, has seven regional arterials run through and boasts the third busiest Metra Train Stop on the Milwaukee District West line

Hanover Park is a welcoming community, with quality services from municipal, non-profit and community-based organizations. Hanover Park partnered with the Elgin Community College, Harper College, the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership to establish the Education and Work Center (EWC) to expand educational and employment opportunities to our residents. We suggest that you visit our Veterans Memorial that adorns the Hanover Park Municipal Complex as our community truly honors and respects our nation’s veterans. Hanover Park is rated as a Top 100 Safest City in America with a nationally accredited Police Department. Our Fire Department was awarded the rare Insurance Services Office (ISO) Class 2 rating. Hanover Park is a safe place to live, work and play in!

In summary, so many businesses and residents call Hanover Park home because of a variety of housing choices, easy access to not only recreational facilities but also highways, trains and bus routes, a great labor force and our Village’s AA bond rating. We are a Village that looks forward to offering a variety of lifestyle choices to every walk of life. Our village truly celebrates our heritage and diversity as proudly displayed in our slogan, “One Village, One Future”.