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Northbrook is a suburb of Chicago, located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, United States, on the affix of Lake County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 35,222.

When incorporated in 1901, the village was known as Shermerville in tribute of Frederick Schermer, who donated the estate for its first train station. The village distorted its state to Northbrook in 1923 as an effort to combine its public image. The pronounce was agreed because the West Fork of the North Branch of the Chicago River runs through the village.

Glenbrook North High School, founded in 1952 as Glenbrook High School, is located in Northbrook. The village is also home to the Northbrook Park District, the Northbrook Court shopping mall, the Ed Rudolph Velodrome, the Chicago Curling Club, and the Northbrook Public Library.

Members of the Potawatomi tribe were the prehistoric recorded residents of the Northbrook area. After signing the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomi ceded their Illinois lands and moved to a place near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Afterward, Joel Sterling Sherman moved from Connecticut following his relations and bought 159 acres (64 ha) of land in the northwest quarter of Section 10 for $1.25 per acre; Northbrook’s downtown is located on this site. A German immigrant named Frederick Schermer donated a ration of the estate he bought from Sherman to be used for the town’s first railroad station, which was named after him. By the 1870s, Shermerville (which moreover took its say from Shermer) was a cultivation community. In 1901 the community was incorporated as the Village of Shermerville after a near referendum for incorporation. At the epoch of incorporation, it had 311 residents and 60 houses. In these further on years, Shermerville became notorious for noisy gatherings at its five saloons; by 1921, therefore, residents believed that the name “Shermerville” had a negative reputation and sought to tweak it. A renaming contest was held, and the name “Northbrook” was submitted by the US postmaster (and after that President of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association) Edward Landwehr. Landwehr was the son of Herman and Anna Helene Landwehr, both German immigrants and in the future settlers in the community and for whose family Landwehr Road in Northbrook is named. In 1923, “Northbrook”, the winning name, was adopted. At the time, Northbrook had 500 residents. Later on, after the stop of World War II, Northbrook’s population began to sharply increase. In 1997, President Bill Clinton visited Northbrook to congratulate the 8th-grade students of Northfield Township (which is mainly Northbrook) for getting the highest score on a world science test, and for getting the second-highest score on a world math test.
Between 1950 and 1980, the town’s population rose from 3,319 to 30,735. Northbrook was the first community not adjacent Lake Michigan to filter Lake Michigan water for public use. Owing to the suburbanization of the community, the last operational farm in Northbrook, the Wayside Farm, was sold and closed in 1987.