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| Barrington is a village in Cook County, Illinois and Lake County, Illinois. It is located 35 miles northwest of Chicago and is part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area. There are many large areas of wetlands that the state is preserving along with hundreds acres of beautiful forest. Barrington offers many wonderful parks to take the family for picnicking or games or to take long strolls on your own leisure. With lots of horse trails to ride, it is the perfect country-suburban setting. Barrington has one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country with a population of more than 20,000 residents. The area includes the town of Barrington, South Barrington, North Barrington, Barrington Hills, Lake Barrington, Tower Lakes, and small portions of Deer Park and Inverness. This area is commonly known as "The Barringtons". |
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| The large estate acreage that remained in family hands decade after decade protected Barrington from the densely packed residential developments that came to neighboring communities in the 1950s and 1960s. Barrington's population grew from 3,213 in 1930 to only 5,435 in 1960. But with the construction of the Northwest Tollway five miles to the south in the early 1960s, development did come to Barrington's south side. Population reached 10,168 in 2000. To their credit, the residents, and the generations that followed, worked hard to preserve the qualities of charm and graciousness which are the hallmarks of life in Barrington. Today, Barrington's vision is directed very much toward the future, but its thoughts are never far from the rich legacy of its past. |
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| William Butler Ogden became interested in connecting the developing northwest to Chicago's growing port facilities. He gained control of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad, later named the Chicago and North Western Railway, in 1854 and pushed its tracks to the northwest corner of Cook County, where a station named Deer Grove was built. Although it meant improved profits, many area farmers feared the railroad would bring too many saloons and Irish Catholics to the area. In response to the opposition, Robert Campbell, a civil engineer working for the Fond du Lac line, purchased a farm two miles northwest of Deer Grove and platted a community there in 1854. At Campbell's request, the railroad moved the station building to his new community, which he called Barrington after Barrington, Massachusetts, the original home of a number of area farmers. Census Report 2000 Population: 12,419,293 Median household income: $46,590 Median house value: $130,800 When relocating to Barrington you will want to find out all you can about the city, where to find schools, parks, utility companies, churches, shopping, restaurants, sports and recreation, hospitals and much more information, so when you do come it will be all that easier for you during the relocating process. |