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Prospect Heights is a young city by Chicago suburban standards: developers Carlton Smith and Allen Dawson built the first homes on farmland along Elmhurst Road in 1935, and the first family moved in during January 1936.

For its first four decades Prospect Heights had no municipal government at all; the Prospect Heights Improvement Association, formed in 1938, acted as a virtual government for the unincorporated community.

The City of Prospect Heights was finally incorporated on January 31, 1976, exactly 40 years after the first family moved in, after residents voted to incorporate to head off annexation by neighbors.

Prospect Heights had 16,058 residents in the 2020 census, and Census Bureau survey estimates put it at about 6,700 households, with an average of roughly 2.3 people per household.

The city's roots go back to 1830, when Hiram Kennicott established a thousand-acre farm near what is now Elmhurst Road and Willow Road that supplied dairy products to the growing Chicago market.

Prospect Heights sits in one of the lowest-lying depression areas in Cook County, and the whole city covers only about 4.24 square miles of mostly single-family homes on generous half-acre lots.

Prospect Heights co-owns Chicago Executive Airport with the neighboring Village of Wheeling; the two communities bought the airport in December 1986, and with roughly 80,000 operations a year it ranks among the busiest airports in Illinois.

Golfers in Prospect Heights play at Rob Roy Golf Course, a nine-hole public course on Camp McDonald Road that dates to 1928.

Prospect Heights School District 23 runs four schools in the city, including Betsy Ross, Anne Sullivan and Dwight D. Eisenhower elementary schools and MacArthur Middle School.

More than a third of Prospect Heights residents are foreign-born, with large European, Latin American and Asian communities giving the small city an unusually international mix.