Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Homer Glen, IL

Homer Glen is a village mostly in Will County, Illinois — with a small portion in Cook County — located about 32 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.

Homer Glen is one of the newest municipalities in Illinois: residents voted to incorporate on April 17, 2001, largely to control land use and preserve the area's semi-rural character.

Before incorporation, the community was known as Goodings Grove, one of the oldest settlement names in Homer Township, which itself was established in 1836.

Homer Glen covers roughly 22 square miles — most of Homer Township — yet it has deliberately kept a low-density, semi-rural character.

The village had a population of 24,543 at the 2020 census, up modestly from 24,220 in 2010 and 22,269 in the 2000 census count of the pre-incorporation community.

Homer Glen has about 8,100 households with an average of just over 3 people per household, among the larger household sizes in the Chicago suburbs.

Homeownership in Homer Glen is exceptionally high — about 95 percent of homes are owner-occupied — and the median household income is about $136,700, with a median home value around $418,800 (Census Bureau, 2020-2024).

Homer Glen is a home rule community, a status it qualified for once its population passed 25,000 in a 2008 special count.

The village's best-known attraction is Bengtson's Pumpkin Farm and Fall Fest on 151st Street, a family farm festival running since the early 1980s with more than a dozen rides, pig races, a petting zoo, hayrides and a pick-your-own pumpkin patch that draws families from across Chicagoland each autumn.

Homer Glen has no traditional downtown — its civic life is spread among its village hall, parks, churches and schools — which is exactly the quiet, green, semi-rural identity residents incorporated to protect.