Dear Resident:
On behalf of the Village of Bolingbrook, I would like to welcome you to Bolingbrook.
I am enclosing, for your records, a copy of the Village of Bolingbrook Residential Transfer Information and Disclosure Form that was signed when you purchased your home. This form gives you information regarding the public services for your new home along with the zoning classification. If you have any questions relating to Residential Transfer Information, please feel free to call the Finance Department at (630) 226-8430. Someone is available to assist you Monday – Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
We’d like to invite you to sign up for “Brook Alerts” by visiting www.bolingbrook.com/alerts. These e-mail and/or text alerts allow the Village of Bolingbrook to provide residents with direct emergency and non-emergency information such as severe weather emergencies, hazardous materials issues, road/traffic closures or impacts, etc.
Also, information and request forms are available on our website (www.bolingbrook.com) and on our Village of Bolingbrook Mobile Application allowing you to electronically submit requests for potholes, downed trees, street lights, water main breaks, and other code enforcement requests.
In addition, I always encourage residents to visit Bolingbrook Town Center (Village Hall) at 375 W. Briarcliff Road. We maintain an open door policy. You can contact me directly in the Executive Office by calling (630) 226-8412 or e-mailing mayormary@bolingbrook.com.
Sincerely,
Mary S. Alexander-Basta
Mayor
The Home Security Advisor named Bolingbrook in annual Illinois’s Safest Cities Report
Bolingbrook, IL: Bolingbrook has been named as one of the Top 50 Safest Cities in Illinois in the 2019 report published by The Home Security Advisor. The article and a full listing can be found at https://www.thehomesecurityadvisor.com/safest-cities-illinois/.
A leader in the home security and personal safety industry, the site proclaims: “In our experience the towns, cities and communities listed in our Top 50 share a number of qualities of which their residents should be proud.
- Strong Leadership
- Dedicated Law Enforcement
- Active Citizenship
The Home Security Advisor rankings were calculated using the 2016 FBI Uniform Crime Report results with respect to towns and cities with Five-thousand residents or higher, who reported their crime data. These figures were weighted in order to accurately indicate the seriousness of the criminal activity. Violent crimes were factored by .60 and property crimes by .40. This number would be then divided by the population in the community and normalized to reflect weighted criminal offenses per 100,000.
The modern Village of Bolingbrook got its start in the first half of the 1960s when the first builder laid out the first housing tract in the farm fields just north of old U.S. 66 and beside Illinois Route 53.
Those first families, as they moved in, had never heard or seen the name "Bolingbrook". Where they were moving was known as "Westbury" they thought, which, as it turned out, was just the first west side unit of what was "Bolingbrook Subdivision", as recorded by Dover Construction Company at the county.
The young families, for the most part, were lured out to model homes by advertisements that featured a handsome and distinguished British butler named Mr. Dover. They come via the Stevenson Expressway, as the new and improved Route 66 had been renamed. It was the long umbilical cord that stretched out from the city of Chicago to the far west farmlands. The first model homes went up on Rocklyn Court, off Route 53, just north of the current Pheasant Hill shopping center.
... Homes were priced at $10,000 with as little as $200 down. The first homes ready for families to move into were on Avondale Court, just west of Route 53 and north of Briarcliff Road. Lesson #1 learned the hard way through teary eyes: everything you see in the model home isn't in your finished house, necessarily. In the case of Dover homes that meant no carpeting or even floor tile in some area unless you paid extra. And there certainly were no trees or lawns. And not always paved streets.Dover Construction Company also designed two other areas to follow Westbury, the two subsequent areas both east of Route 53, but still centered around the Dover-built Briarcliff Road. While Westbury had the first homes, the east side's Colonial Village became the site of the first churches, parks, fire station and, eventually, Village Hall and jail.
The three original home tracts - sold from 1961 to 1965 under the names of Westbury, Colonial Village and King's Park were all part of the original "Bolingbrook Subdivision."
It was these homes, and the families in them that officially formed the Village of Bolingbrook in 1965 with incorporation.
As reported in The Met, 8/23/90
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