Editing Mundelein, Illinois (section)

=== Fire department ===
The [[fire department]] of Mundelein is called the Mundelein Fire Department, and before 1956, the Mundelein-Countryside fire Department Corporation. The first [[fire station]] in Mundelein was opened in 1947 south of the downtown area, being initially built with four bays, but later expanded to six bays. The department had no full-time employees until 1960. Five additions were added to the station between 1952 and 1961, including a second story to the building. The department moved into its current building on Midlothian Road in 2000.<ref>Killackey, pp. 68{{Endash}}69, 74{{Endash}}75</ref>

Cardinal Mundelein donated the village its first new fire truck, a 1925 Stoughton. The fire truck was officially turned over to the village at a ceremony held at the St. Mary of the Lake Seminary on July 17, 1925. The fire truck, nicknamed "Old No. 1", was restored in 2008.<ref name=":5" />