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Palatine (/ ˈ p æ l ə t aɪ n /) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a northwestern residential suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 67,908. As of the 2010 Census, it was the seventh-largest community in Cook County and the 18th-largest in Illinois.
- George Clayson House Museum. This historic house museum, operated by the Palatine Historical Society, is on the south side of the Community Park. The property, named after a 19th-century occupant and member of the Palatine Board of Trustees, was built in 1873 in a refined Second Empire style.
- Community Park. Close to the Village Hall and the Clayson House Museum is Palatine’s main park for recreation, as well as a space for festivals and concerts.
- Deer Park Town Center. Touted as an open-air lifestyle center, this shopping center lies just beyond Palatine’s northern fringe and is a pleasant place to spend some time browsing on a summer’s day.
- Deer Grove Forest Preserve. Back when Palatine was a little village in the 1860s, the residents would venture into this wild area to the north to collect firewood.
Palatine, village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Palatine is a suburb of Chicago, lying about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of the city. The community, established in 1855 when a Chicago and North Western Railway siding and depot was built, was named for Palatine, New York, the original.
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About the Village. Palatine: A Brief History. Settlement. Palatine’s roots reach back to the 1830s when settlers from New York and New England traveled west to stake their claim in the fertile green prairies they had heard so much about from soldiers who were returning from the 1832 Blackhawk War.
Palatine is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a northwestern residential suburb of Chicago. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 65,479, making it the sixth-largest community in Cook County and the 16th-largest in the state of Illinois at that time.
