Mount Prospect, IL, Website

Mount Prospect, Illinois. Established as a farming community soon after The Great Chicago Fire and incorporated in 1917, Mount Prospect is currently home to over 56,265 residents as well as several major corporations including Albany Molecular, Braun Manufacturing, Hyundai, Nutrasweet, Sayers Computing and United Stationers.

Mount Prospect has matured into a dynamic community of eye pleasing neighborhoods, economically stable retail centers, and architecturally pleasing light industrial/office complexes.

Citizen participation in local government is actively encouraged. Several of the local commissions are made up of volunteers from the business and residential communities. The business community regularly interacts with the Village through the Chamber of Commerce. The Village's award winning government access cable channel televises meetings of the Village Board and Planning and Zoning Commission, providing the community with a unique version of open access to its government.