Elk Grove Township is one of 29

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, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 92,905. Elk Grove Township formerly housed the

United Airlines United Airlines, Inc. (commonly referred to as United), is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois.

headquarters.

Geography

According to the

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, Elk Grove Township covers an area of ; of this, is land and , or 1.48 percent, is water.

Cities, towns, villages

* Arlington Heights *

Des Plaines Des Plaines is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 60,675. The city is a suburb of Chicago and is located just north of O'Hare International Airport. It is situated on and is named after th ...

(west edge) * Elk Grove Village * Mount Prospect (southern portions) *

Rolling Meadows Rolling Meadows is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 24,200. History In 1836, Orrin Ford became the first landowner in the area that is now Rolling Meadows, staking his claim of in an area ...

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(east edge)

Adjacent townships

* Wheeling Township (north) * Maine Township (east) * Addison Township, DuPage County (south) * Bloomingdale Township, DuPage County (southwest) *

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(west) * Palatine Township (northwest)

Cemeteries

The township contains Elk Grove Cemetery.

Major highways

Interstate 90 Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, Midwest, and ...

* Interstate 290 *

U.S. Route 14 U.S. Route 14 (abbreviated U.S. 14 or US 14), an east–west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. It currently has a length of 1,398 miles (2,250 km), but it had a peak length of 1,429 miles (2,300 km). For ...

Illinois Route 53 Illinois Route 53 (IL 53) is an arterial north–south state highway in northeast Illinois. IL 53 runs from Main Street west of historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66) in Gardner to IL 83 in Long Grove, a distance of . It mainly ...

Illinois Route 58 Illinois Route 58 (IL 58, Illinois 58), also known as Golf Road for most of its route, is a state highway in northeast Illinois. It runs from Illinois Route 25 (Liberty Street) in Elgin east to U.S. Route 41 (Skokie Boulevard) in Skokie. This ...

Illinois Route 62 Illinois Route 62 (IL 62) is a east–west state road in northeast Illinois. It runs from western Algonquin at IL 31 (Western Algonquin Bypass) to the intersection with IL 83 (Elmhurst Road) by industrial Mount Prospect. Route ...

Illinois Route 72 Illinois Route 72 is an east–west state road in northern Illinois. It runs from the intersection with Illinois Route 73 north of Lanark east to Illinois Route 43 (Harlem Avenue) in Chicago. This is a distance of . Route description Il ...

* Illinois Route 83

Lakes

* Fountain Lake * Fred Hasse Lake

Landmarks

* Busse Woods Forest Preserve (vast majority) *

O'Hare International Airport Chicago O'Hare International Airport , sometimes referred to as, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is the main international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop busines ...

* United States Highway Army Reserve Center, Arlington Heights * Elk Grove High School * Rolling Meadows High School

Demographics

School districts

* City of Chicago School District 299 * Township High School District 214 * Community Consolidated School District 59

Political districts

Illinois's 6th congressional district Illinois's 6th congressional district covers parts of Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane and McHenry counties. It is represented by Democrat Sean Casten since 2019. Geographic boundaries 2011 redistricting As of the 2011 redistricting which followe ...

* State House District 65 * State House District 66 * State Senate District 33

Economy

Elk Grove Township formerly had the corporate headquarters of

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. In 2006 United Airlines announced that it would be moving its headquarters and its 350 top executives from Elk Grove Township to

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.Corfman, Thomas A., Greg Hinz, and Julie Jonsson.
United HQ heading for Chicago
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''. July 13, 2006. Retrieved on November 12, 2009. After the City of Chicago gave additional financial incentives, United proceeded to schedule a move of its remaining employees out of the former Elk Grove Township headquarters into the

Willis Tower The Willis Tower (originally the Sears Tower) is a 108- story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM ...

(Sears Tower) in Chicago in the northern hemisphere of fall 2010. Monica Davey of ''

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'' said that the move may have contributed to United's decision to base the new merged airline out of Chicago instead of

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. The former headquarters is now a part of Mount Prospect, which annexed the land in the 2010s. In December 2021, it was reported that United would sell the campus to CloudHQ, which plans to build a

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References

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United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

United States National Atlas

External links

Elk Grove Township official website

Township Officials of Illinois

Cook County official site
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