Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Burr Ridge, IL

Burr Ridge is an affluent village straddling DuPage and Cook counties in Illinois, about 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, whose village slogan is "A Very Special Place."

Burr Ridge's gently rolling hills were carved by glaciers at the end of the last ice age, most of the village lies on the Valparaiso Moraine, and Flagg Creek, a tributary of the Des Plaines River, runs through town.

Settler Joseph Vial built a log cabin near Wolf and Plainfield roads in 1834 and ran a hotel on the stagecoach line, and the first Democratic convention in Cook County was held in Burr Ridge in 1835.

In 1917 the International Harvester Company bought 414 acres in Burr Ridge for an experimental farm, where it tested the Farmall, the world's first all-purpose tractor.

Residents incorporated in 1956 as the village of Harvester, in honor of International Harvester, before mergers with the Harvester farm and Burr Ridge Estates led to the name Burr Ridge in the early 1960s.

The name Burr Ridge comes from a stand of bur oak trees growing on a ridge near County Line and Plainfield roads, and the bur oak leaf became the village emblem.

The 2020 census counted 11,192 people in Burr Ridge, up from 10,559 in 2010.

Census Bureau figures count about 4,540 households in Burr Ridge, with a median household income of about $156,800, per capita income above $100,000, a median home value of about $700,400, and an owner-occupied rate of 94 percent.

In 1969 Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley proposed building low-income subsidized housing on the former prison farm in Burr Ridge, but the plan was quashed, and the site instead became Ambriance, a gated subdivision of multimillion-dollar homes.

Burr Ridge children are split among several elementary districts, including Burr Ridge Community Consolidated District 180, Hinsdale District 181, and Pleasantdale District 107, and attend Hinsdale Central or Hinsdale South high schools in District 86.