Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Sleepy Hollow, IL

Sleepy Hollow is a village in Dundee Township, Kane County, in the Fox River Valley, and its motto is 'In the Heart of the Beautiful Fox River Valley.'

Sleepy Hollow was built on the former Sleepy Hollow Farm of J. H. McNabb, board chairman of the Bell and Howell Company, which developer Floyd T. Falese bought in 1953 and turned into a carefully planned residential community.

Sleepy Hollow's planner, landscape architect Raymond W. Hazekamp, laid out meandering roads and curvilinear cul-de-sacs with no curbs or sidewalks, deliberately routing them to avoid cutting down a single tree.

Sleepy Hollow's developer Falese dammed springs to create a chain of small lakes, including Lake Paula and Lake Sharon, Lake Ichabod (dug in 1962), and Lake Legend and Lake Jacqueline (1967), with names that nod to Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'

Residents of the unincorporated Sleepy Hollow Manor subdivision voted to incorporate as the Village of Sleepy Hollow in 1958, choosing independence rather than annexation by neighboring West Dundee.

Sleepy Hollow grew from only 311 residents in 1960 to 3,553 in 2000 as Chicago's suburbs pushed west, and it counted 3,214 residents at the 2020 census.

Sleepy Hollow had 1,213 households at the 2020 census, a median age of 49.1 years, and a median household income of about $122,121, making it one of the older and more affluent communities in Kane County.

Early Sleepy Hollow homeowners were allowed to keep horses on their lots, and outlots throughout the village were set aside as bridle paths.

Sleepy Hollow operates a community garden for residents and a 'Giving Garden' whose produce is donated to local food pantries, with garden renters required to volunteer at the Giving Garden.

Sleepy Hollow Elementary School sits inside the village in Community Unit School District 300, and older students attend Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville.