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Welcome to the Oak Brook Home page. The Oak Brook Home page provides as much information as possible on Oak Brook. Knowing Oak Brook’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Oak Brook’s Home page, you will also find Oak Brook’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Oak Brook has a population of 8085. 46.2% of Oak Brook’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.8 are female. 61% of Oak Brook is married and 96.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $772,197. Household median income in Oak Brook is $140,743, and the individual median income is $69,058. Oak Brook’s Ethnic is the following: White(63.9%), Asian(29.6%), Hispanic(4.7%), Multiple(4.1%), Black(1.8%), Other(0.6%).


Oak Brook was originally known as Fullersburg, named after Ben Fuller, an early settler.Oak Brook was incorporated as a village in 1958, due in large part to the efforts of Paul Butler, a prominent civic leader and landowner whose father had first moved to the vicinity in 1898 and opened a dairy farm shortly thereafter.


Prior to incorporation, the name Oak Brook was used by local residents to distinguish their community from neighboring Hinsdale and Elmhurst, going back to the founding of the Oak Brook Civic Association almost two decades earlier.The original boundaries were smaller than the present extent of the village, but a considerable amount of land was annexed soon after the founding of the village, including the land that is now the site of the Oakbrook Center shopping mall, which opened in 1962. In 1964 Butler entered a joint venture with the Del E.


Webb Corporation of Phoenix, Arizona to increase development of the area. Webb's construction company constructed dozens of buildings in Oak Brook both commercial and residential. The Webb Corporation's involvement in the development of the village lasted into the late 1970s.Paul Butler's interest in sport was reflected in the Oak Brook Sports Core, which features polo fields, a golf course (which was at one time the venue for the Western Open), swimming and tennis facilities, and other recreational facilities not commonly found in a village of this size.


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