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Existing Conditions
The Glenview Community
The Village of Glenview is an
established suburban community
encompassing an area of 13.8
square miles. The Village is primarily
located east of Interstate 294 (Tri-
State Tollway), west of the Edens
Expressway, south of Willow Road,
and north of Golf Road. According
to the U.S. Census, the population’s
median age in 2010 was 45.5 years of
age and the 2010 median household
income was $107,037. Glenview is a
self-government community with a
Council-Manager form of government.
With over 250 employees, the Village
operates a full-time Police and Fire
Department, as well as a Public
Works Department, Community
Development Department, and
Administrative Services Department,
which are overseen by the Village
Manager’s Office. Most of the water
supplied to Glenview is water from
Lake Michigan, purchased from the
Village of Wilmette. The largest single
revenue source is sales tax and the
corporate fund property tax rate has
been stable for the past decade.
While Glenview is a predominately
single-family residential community,
it also includes multiple-family
housing and a series of mixed-
use commercial districts along its
arterials, industrial lands, and the
Cook County Forest Preserve.
Glenview is predominantly
developed. Most of the Village’s
development occurred in the 1950’s
and 1960’s. The Glen (The Glenview
Naval Air Station Redevelopment)
and Techny Area are significant
recent developments in the 1990s
and 2000s. Though Glenview has
little remaining land to be developed,
there will continue to be a demand
for new residential, commercial, and
industrial development in the future.
This will likely require replacing older
existing land uses and redeveloping
transitional sites.
Past trends in Glenview show that
population growth occurred slowly
up to 1950 when the Census recorded
6,142 residents. Spurred by the
opening of the Edens Expressway
(Chicagoland’s first expressway to
the northern suburbs) along the
eastern boundary of the Village, the
population nearly tripled to 18,132
at the 1960 Census and continued
booming, reaching 37,093 people
in the 1990 census. By the 2000
Census, Glenview continued to grow,
recording a population of 41,847, up
12.8% from the 1990 Census within
the Village’s 13.5 square miles. A
Year Population Population
Growth Rate
1990 37,093 –
2000 41,847 12.82%
2010 44,692 6.80%
*2014 46,767 4.64%
S ource : U.S. C ensus ; *A merican C ommunities S urvey
Table 1-2 Cook County Population
Community Characteristics and Economic Profile
Gathering and analyzing data on a
community’s population is a critical
function in the comprehensive
planning process. It provides key
insights to issues and trends that a
community is facing or will face in the
future and will allow decision-makers
to make policy decisions grounded in
reliable data and historical trends.
Table 1-1 Glenview Village Population
Special Census was conducted in 2005
to account for growth within The
Glen showing a population of 44,443.
The Village’s population at the 2010
Census was 44,692.
From 1990 to 2000, the population
increased by 5.33%, but the
population decreased in the county
by 3.39% from 2000 to 2010.
Year Population Population
Growth Rate
1990 5,105,067 –
2000 5,377,175 5.33%
2010 5,194,675 -3.39%
*2014 5,246,456 0.99%
S ource : U.S. C ensus ; *A merican C ommunities S urvey
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