Where I-280, IL 58 and IL 72 cross at the northwestern corner of Busse Woods there’s a bundle of shopping centers, big box stores and Woodfield Mall. Woodfield Mall Source: Joe Hendrickson / shutterstock Woodfield Mall On the east side of the Ned Brown Forest Preserve is a 17-acre enclosed pasture, home to a herd of elk since 1925.ĥ. This wonderful natural escape comprises an important preserve for mature Great Lakes hardwood forest (Busse Woods), within which is a 440-acre fragment of the rare flatwoods habitat (Busse Forest Nature Preserve), growing swamp white oak, black ash and red maple. The Ned Brown Forest Preserve is 3,700 acres of deciduous forest, wetlands and open water, waiting to be discovered on 13 miles of trails. One of the finest forest preserves in the Chicago area is right on Rolling Meadows’ south side. Ned Brown Forest Preserve Source: Jerzy Szwoch / shutterstock Ned Brown Forest Preserve Nature lovers can’t ignore the immense sweep of Busse Woods, just south of Rolling Meadows, while nearby Schaumburg has one of the largest malls in the United States, along with attractions and performance venues for all of Chicagoland. You can see what one of these houses was like at the Rolling Meadows Historical Museum, filled with 1950s-specific artifacts and domestic finishings.
Rolling Meadows is a relatively new community, founded by the property developer Kimball Hill in the 1950s who built a neighborhood of ranch-style homes on land once intended as a golf course for neighboring Arlington Heights. Home to just over 24,000, the city of Rolling Meadows is on the Northwest Suburbs’ affluent Golden Corridor.
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