Culture / Entertainment
Showplace Twelve located within one mile of Augusta Village, is the place to see the lates blockbuster movies. Also, for more of a theatrical venue Bolingbrook Performing Arts Center is available for local play perfomances;

Shopping
Fox Valley mall is just a few minutes way in Aurora, great for all shopping needs. Also, the Weber Road corridor is great for shopping.

Recreation
Bolingbrook Golf Club boasts an 18-hole championship golf course designed by acclaimed course architect Arthur Hills, a state of the art practice center and a glorious 3-story clubhouse; Boughton Ridge Golf Course is a smaller golf course with 9 holes located in neighboring Romeoville; Bolingbrook Park District offers great activities for all ages ranging from classes to sports; Also available are Youth Activity Centers for kids.

Transportation
Bolingbrook is centrally located in the heart of the midwest, providing unparalleled accessibility in any direction with easy access to I-55 and I-355. Also, the metra train is available for commuting downtown Chicago from Aurora at the Route 59 train station.

Medical Facilities
Bolingbrook Medical Center is located approximately 6 minutes from Augusta Village. Also, close by is Edwards Hospital in Naperville.

Worship
St. Francis of Assisi; St. Dominic Church; Crossroads of Faith United Methodist Church; Divine Shepard Lutheran Church; First Baptist Church; First Presbyterian Church; and numerous more if needed

Schools

District: Valley View 365 U Valley View Community Unit School District 365U is a public system serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students.
	Bolingbrook High School	High School	630-759-6400
	Brooks Middle School	Middle School	630-759-6340
	Pioneer Elementary	Elementary	630-771-2420
	The mission of the Poineer Elementary School community is to celebrate the exploration of new frontiers in lifelong learning while maximizing the development of each childs intellectual, physical, social and emotional potential in our ever changing world.

	AT&T	Cable	866-594-1234
	ComEd	Electricity	800-334-7661
	Northern Illinois Gas	Gas	630-729-4300
	Ameritech	Telephone	800-244-4444
	Bolingbrook Service Company	Water	630-226-8800

Near East Side
Near West Side: The residential neighborhood is generally well maintained with expensive older homes.
Pigeon Hill (East Side)
Frontenac (Far East Side)
Exposition View (Northwest Side)
Riddle Highlands: is located on the West Side, off of Lake Street and Illinois Ave. It’s a very charming section of the city, with large, older homes dating back to the early 1900s. Mature trees line the streets and most lawns are neatly manicured.
Scraper-Moecherville (South East Side)
Newport Hill
Marywood (North East Side)
Southpark (South East Side)
Hometown (South East Side)
Downtown: Historic downtown is the heart of Aurora and is home to a number of large historic buildings dating back to the early 1900s. Downtown is located 3 miles South of Interstate 88. Much of downtown Aurora was developed in the lates 1800s and houses several pieces of impressive architecture. Downtown Aurora’s declined began in the late 1970s but of late is the home of several new developments including the River Street Plaza Condo development and Downer Place Lofts. Many new businesses have opened with success, along with the Hollywood Casino. A major hotel and high rise condos are planned for the East Bank on the east side of downtown. Today still, many areas just outside downtown remain vacant due to the industrial recession of the 1980’s. Downtown Aurora is the home of the famous LeLand Hotel, a 22 story building built in 1921, which housed the Sky Club, a former Blues recording studio. The building once was the tallest building in Illinois outside of Chicago. Today its used as apartments.
Uptown :The center of Aurora’s strong Hispanic culture. The area was an area just east of downtown, booming with large homes and bustling shops in the first half of the 20th century. Today, some old storefronts are still there.
White Eagle: is located at the most Southeastern portion of the city. Although, most residents consider this to be Naperville, its technically Aurora. In the early days of this development, the residents wanted to be considered Naperville, so the mayor at that time, cut off all city services to prove his point, that White Eagle is in fact in the City of Aurora. White Eagle is a very wealthy and upscale area. Most homes are valued at well over a million dollars.
Oakhurst (Far East Side)
Pheasant Creek (Far East Side)
Pine Meadows (Far East Side)
Georgetown (Far East Side)
Ginger Woods (Far East Side)
Green Hills (Far East Side)
Lake Wood (Far East Side)
Patersonville (East Side)
Westwood: A predominantly African American neighborhood on the west side.
Stonebridge: is the most wealthy area of Aurora. Its located along Indian Trail Rd and Eola Rd on the city’s Far East Side. This is also one of the newest sections of the city. With homes well over a million dollars, its residents have an average household income of $ 112,800 and an average household net worth of $ 165,112.00. The Stonebridge area is also home to the Stonebridge Golf Course. Which was the home of PGA for several years in a row.
Orchard Valley

Aurora is the largest city in Kane County, Illinois. The city also lies within DuPage, Will and Kendall counties. As reported in the 2000 U.S. census, the city was home to 142,990 people, while the city’s estimated 2007 population is 175,952. About 110,000 of the city’s residents reside in Kane County, while about 42,000 live in DuPage County. Only a few thousand Aurorans are in Will and Kendall Counties.

Although mostly considered part of Kane County, Aurora is also on the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. Aurora has a long tradition of manufacturing, making it an industrial center that could stand alone, separate from Chicago. Prominent manufacturers, past and present, included: Lyon Workspace Products, The Aurora Silver Plate Manufacturing Company, Barber Greene Ltd., the Chicago Corset Company, the Aurora Brewing Company, Stephens-Adamson Company, Caterpillar Incorporated, and Western Wheeled Scraper Works (later Austin-Western Inc.). Olsson Roofing Company, Inc. was started in 1914 and is one of the oldest companies in the city. The most prominent employer and industry was the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad (later Burlington Northern) which was headquartered in Aurora. The CB&Q Roundhouse is still standing, and is now the popular restaurant Walter Payton’s Roundhouse.

Two main school systems have served the Kane County, Illinois core location of Aurora, Illinois since the 1860s, one on either side of the Fox River which physically divides the city. In addition, the far eastern portion of Aurora, within DuPage County, Illinois, has been served by Indian Prairie School District (IPSD) 204 since that district’s formation in 1972. All three of these districts (Aurora Public Schools: West Side (District 129), Aurora Public Schools: East Side (District 131) and IPSD) have their headquarters and administrative offices within the Aurora city limits. As of 2005 there will be no less than forty public schools within Aurora city limits, serving residents of Aurora and neighboring communities.

Due to the sheer size of the city of Aurora, these are not the only three school systems serving residents - some students in the far north end of the city (north of I88 in Kane County) attend Batavia, Illinois public schools, some on the far southwest side attend the Kaneland School district (headquartered in Maple Park, Illinois), and some students in the far south end of the city (Kendall and Will County portions) attend Oswego, Illinois public schools. 4 schools of Oswego School District #308, are located within Aurora’s city limits.

Aurora is also home to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), a state-funded residential magnet school for grades 10 to 12. While IMSA operates under public funds (and uses the site originally designated West Aurora High School North Campus), it is managed wholly independently of the other public schools in the city of Aurora. Young residents meeting IMSA’s requirements who live in Aurora, or any other Illinois community, may apply for admission to IMSA.

The above-named districts have forty-six public schools within the city limits of Aurora (seventeen for District #131, thirteen for District #129, eleven for District #204, four for Oswego District #308 and the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy). Aurora is also home to twenty-two private schools, 2 branches of the Waubonsee Community College, and the main campus of Aurora University.

Joseph McCarty, a pioneer from New York State, came west seeking a new home. Reaching the Fox Valley, he built the first campfire in April of 1834 on the island, which is now the site of downtown Aurora. He thought that the Fox River location was an ideal place for a new community and told his brother, Samuel. It was not long before Samuel arrived, family was sent for, and a permanent settlement was taking roots. The settlement was named McCarty mills for the brothers’ grist mill and sawmill. In 1837, when a Post Office was established, the village became Aurora, goddess of the dawn. Later, when the City was the first in the United States to use electric lights for publicly lighting the entire City, it achieved the nickname of “City of Lights”.

The modest camp of 1834 has grown into a teeming city. With a population of 157,267 according to 2003 special census, the City has steadily grown throughout the years to become the second largest city in the state.

The City is accessible through five interchanges on the East/West Tollway Corridor. Corporate offices and commercial growth on the City’s east and west sides continue to expand the City’s boundaries, now stretching from Route 59 on the east to portions beyond Orchard Road on the west. The Far East Side of the City includes the regional Westfield Shoppingtown at Fox Valley (formerly known as Fox Valley Mall) and residential areas and is projected to house 60,000 people within the next twenty years. The City extends into four counties, Kane, DuPage, Kendall, and Will. There are six school districts and seven townships covered within the city limits. There are four historic districts and a large number of individual landmark designations for many of the City’s buildings.

The City of Aurora is rich in history and pride. The future for the “City of Lights” looks bright as the community continues to grow and prosper.

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 Rout 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

The Village of Bolingbrook is served by six different public school districts. Most of Bolingbrook students are in the Valley View 365-U District. As the Village grew, however, its boundaries pushed into the Woodridge Elementary and Downers Grove High School districts, which serve the far northeast corner of the Village that is in DuPage County. Another far north neighborhood west of Rt. 53 and north of Royce Road is in the Naperville 203 District. West of Naperville Road, some newer neighborhoods are in the Indian Prairie District 204, while some others are in the Plainfield 202 District which serves the far southwest side of Bolingbrook. Click on the district names above for more details about each and the names of the individual schools within each district that Bolingbrook youngsters might attend.

Bolingbrook, Illinois is a 20.5 square mile area located with easy access to I-55, I-355, Route 53, and Route 126. This central location offers a variety of shopping, dining, and entertainment options. One of the most notable area amenities is the Bolingbrook Golf Club located on the southwest side of the village. It boasts a 76,000 square foot clubhouse and hosts various corporate outings, weddings, banquets, and even celebrity tournaments on its Arthur Hills and Steve Forrest designed championship golf course. The Bolingbrook Golf Club is definitely a main attraction! Bolingbrook is a relatively new suburb of Chicago, having been incorporated in 1965. It grew solidly for the remainder of the 1960s, reaching a population of 7,000 by 1970. The 1970s were the first period of rapid growth in Bolingbrook, during which its population quintupled to reach over 37,000 by 1980. Much of this growth was as much due to mass annexation as well as raw population growth; the population of Bolingbrook by the 1970 census but with its 1980 land boundary was approximately 25,000, further reflecting the vigorous annexation that took place during the 1970s.

Bolingbrook Real Estate

As of the census of 2000, there were 56,321 people, 17,416 households, and 14,246 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,060.2/km² (2,746.5/mi²). There were 17,884 housing units at an average density of 336.7/km² (872.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 64.51% White, 20.41% African American, 0.23% Native American, 6.38% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 5.65% from other races, and 2.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.09% of the population.

There were 17,416 households out of which 48.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.5% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.2% were non-families. 14.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.22 and the average family size was 3.56.

In the village the population was spread out with 32.3% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 35.2% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 4.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 99.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.0 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $67,852, and the median income for a family was $71,527. Males had a median income of $46,915 versus $33,665 for females. The per capita income for the village was $23,468. About 2.9% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.1% of those under age 18 and 6.8% of those age 65 or over.