Oak Brook is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, in Illinois in the Lombard-Oakbrook-Villa Park-Elmhurst (LOVE) area. The population was 8,702 at the 2000 census.

History

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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 acquired soon after the founding of the Village, including the land that is now the site of the Oak Brook Center shopping mall, which opened in 1962.

Paul Butler's interest in athletics and 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.

Geography

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Oak Brook is located at (41.84018, -87.953079).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 21.4 km² (8.3 mi²). 21.1 km² (8.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (1.21%) is water.

Most of the village consists of residential subdivisions, with the exception of the Oak Brook Center shopping mall and other retail and office properties along the Interstate 88 corridor in the northern part of the village, and some commercial properties along Ogden Avenue along the southern boundary.

Demographics

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As of the census of 2000, there were 8,702 people, 3,124 households, and 2,589 families residing in the village. The population density was 411.7/km² (1,066.4/mi²). There were 3,258 housing units at an average density of 154.2/km² (399.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 76.60% White, 1.37% African American, 20.11% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.22% from other races, and 1.69% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.39% of the population.

There were 3,124 households out of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.6% were married couples living together, 4.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.1% were non-families. 15.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.04.

In the village the population was spread out with 19.6% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 15.3% from 25 to...