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Glenview was originally known as South Northfield; residents chose the name Glenview at a special meeting on May 7, 1895, picking it over suggestions such as Rugenville, Glendale, and Oak View.

Glenview was incorporated as a village in 1899, and its first village president was Hugh Burnham, a nephew of famed Chicago architect and planner Daniel Burnham.

The 2020 census counted 48,705 people in Glenview.

Glenview has about 17,855 households and 12,862 families, with a median age of about 46 years.

Naval Air Station Glenview trained some 17,000 pilots during World War II.

When the naval air station closed in 1995, its 1,121 acres - roughly 15 percent of the village - were redeveloped as The Glen, a mixed-use district whose Glen Town Center was built around the base's old control tower.

The Glen contains the Kohl Children's Museum, a lake, two golf courses, the Glenview Park District Park Center, and the North Glenview Metra station.

The Grove, a 123-acre expanse of prairie, woodland, and wetlands that includes the 1856 Kennicott House, is preserved as a National Historic Landmark.

The Glenview Park District's 18.6-acre Wagner Farm recreates farm life of the 1920s on land homesteaded by the Wagner family in 1837.

Most of Glenview is served by Glenbrook South High School, while residents east of Harms Road attend New Trier High School.