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Northbrook started out as Shermerville. The village incorporated in 1901 under that name, in honor of Frederick Schermer, who donated land for the town's first railroad station. In 1923 — after a renaming contest — the village became Northbrook, borrowing its new name from the West Fork of the North Branch of the Chicago River that runs through the community. The old name left behind 'Shermer Road,' which still runs through the historic downtown centered on the Shermer–Meadow intersection.
Two institutional landmarks anchor the Northbrook identity. Techny Towers, built by the Society of the Divine Word in 1901 as their North American headquarters and a technical school (from which the Techny neighborhood took its name), still stands on the north side of the village. St. Mary's Mission Seminary, opened by the Divine Word Missionaries in 1909, was the first seminary in the country to prepare priests and brothers for foreign missions. On the commercial side, Allstate's corporate campus — approximately 8,000 employees, the village's largest employer even though it operates from an unincorporated area adjacent to Northbrook — has been a defining presence since the mid-20th century. Northbrook Court, the 103-storefront shopping mall that opened in 1976, anchors the retail side along Lake Cook Road.
The residential stock is a postwar-to-present patchwork. Northbrook West and Northbrook Park are long-established single-family neighborhoods north of Techny Road. Southbridge Commons went up in the 1960s south of Techny on Shermer. Wildebrook was built late 1970s to mid 1980s off Dundee and Sanders. Park Place Estates is a mid-1990s custom-home community of 68 houses on Waukegan north of Willow. Each wave of building used a different dominant siding material — aluminum and wood on the 60s-70s builds, vinyl and brick on the 90s-2000s custom homes — which means every quote here has to account for what's on the house before the equipment comes off the truck.
Northbrook is about an hour southeast of the Volo shop via Route 60, Route 41, and Dundee Road. Family-owned, fully insured, 124 Google reviews. I soft-wash aluminum and wood on the older 1960s-70s homes without stripping paint, clean vinyl and brick on the newer custom subdivisions without streaking, restore pavers without pulling joint sand, and handle gutters on every roof type without bending downspouts. No subcontractors. Every quote is free.
