Oak Brook, Illinois
| Oak Brook, Illinois | |
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| Village | |
| Village of Oak Brook | |
 Location in DuPage County and the state of Illinois. |
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| Coordinates: 41°50′24″N 87°57′11″W / 41.84000°N 87.95306°WCoordinates: 41°50′24″N 87°57′11″W / 41.84000°N 87.95306°W | |
| Country |
 United States |
| State | Illinois |
| Counties | DuPage, Cook |
| Townships | York, Downers Grove, Proviso |
| Incorporated | 1958 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-manager |
| • President | Gopal Lalmalani |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.28 sq mi (21.4 km2) |
| • Land | 7.95 sq mi (20.6 km2) |
| • Water | 0.33 sq mi (0.9 km2) 3.99% |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 7,883 |
| • Density | 991.6/sq mi (382.9/km2) |
| Down 9.41% from 2000 | |
| Standard of living (2013) | |
| • Per capita income | $77,387 |
| • Median home value | $728,296 |
| ZIP code(s) | 60521-60523 |
| Area code(s) | 630 and 331 |
| Geocode | 54534 |
| Website | www |
Oak Brook is an affluent village in DuPage County with a small portion in Cook County in Illinois. The population was 7,883 at the 2010 census. A suburb of Chicago, Oak Brook serves as home to the headquarters of several notable companies and organizations including McDonald's (now moving to Chicago), Ace Hardware, Blistex, Federal Signal, CenterPoint Properties, Sanford L.P., TreeHouse Foods, and Lions Clubs International.
Oak Brook was originally known as Fullersburg, named after Ben Fuller, an early settler.
Oak Brook was incorporated as a village in 1958, due in large part to the efforts of Paul Butler, a prominent civic leader and landowner whose father had first moved to the vicinity in 1898 and opened a dairy farm shortly thereafter. Prior to incorporation, the name Oak Brook was used by local residents to distinguish their community from neighboring Hinsdale and Elmhurst, going back to the founding of the Oak Brook Civic Association almost two decades earlier.
The original boundaries were smaller than the present extent of the village, but a considerable amount of land was annexed soon after the founding of the village, including the land that is now the site of the Oakbrook Center shopping mall, which opened in 1962.
Paul Butler's interest in sport was reflected in the Oak Brook Sports Core, which features polo fields, a golf course (which was at one time the venue for the Western Open), swimming and tennis facilities, and other recreational facilities not commonly found in a village of this size.
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