| Hoffman Estates
is a northwestern suburb of Chicago in Illinois. The
village is located primarily in Cook County with a small
section in Kane County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census,
the village population was 49,495 and estimated to be
52,520 in 2003. The village was incorporated in 1959
[1]. The village now serves as the headquarters location
for the Sears Holdings Corporation. It is also the home
of the Chicago Storm of the Major Indoor Soccer League,
the Chicago Shamrox of the National Lacrosse League
and the Chicago Slaughter of the Continental Indoor
Football League. Starting in 2009, the village will
also become the home of the Heartland International
Tattoo, one of the largest music & dance festivals
of its kind in the Midwest.
In 1954, a local farmer sold
his 160-acre (0.65 km2) farm to Sam and Jack Hoffman,
owners of the Father and Son Construction Company (referred
to as "F & S Construction"), for a subdivision
in Cook County. The land, now known as Parcel A, was
located east of Roselle Road between Golf and Higgins
Roads. The first homeowners began to move into the new
subdivision in late 1955.
The homes were built on half-acre
lots. On September 19, 1959, residents voted to incorporate
as the Village of Hoffman Estates. (An earlier referendum
among residents, in 1958, had endorsed changing the
name to "Twinbrook", which was the name of
the telephone exchange for the area, by a vote of 236
to 134.
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