| Vernon Hills
is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States.
The population was 20,120 at the 2000 census, and estimated
to be 23,957 as of 2005. Vernon Hills serves as a retail
hub for its surrounding area (Libertyville, Lake Forest,
Mundelein, Lincolnshire, Buffalo Grove,).
The land that was to become Vernon
Hills began with the establishment of a 200-acre (0.81
km2) farm in 1851. Use of the land remained relatively
static until the 1950s, when part of it was purchased
for a residential community and golf course; the development
was the first use of the name "Vernon Hills."
In 1958, the village officially
incorporated with 123 residents. It saw steady but slow
growth until the annexing of a plot of land near the
corner of IL-60 and IL-21 in 1971, which led to the
building of 1,200,000-square-foot (111,000 m2) Hawthorn
Center (now known as Westfield Hawthorn).
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