Editing Burr Ridge, Illinois (section)

==History==
Burr Ridge's gently rolling hills were carved by [[glacier]]s at the end of the [[Last glacial period|last ice age]], and most of the village lies on the [[Valparaiso Moraine]]. [[Flagg Creek]], a tributary of the [[Des Plaines River]], runs through town.

Joseph Vial erected a log cabin near Wolf and Plainfield roads in 1834. Vial also ran a hotel on the stagecoach line, and the Vial family was actively involved in [[Lyons Township, Cook County, Illinois|Lyons Township]] politics and the creation of the Lyonsville congregational church. The first [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] convention in Cook County was held in Burr Ridge in 1835. After 1848, farmers shipped their goods to Chicago along the [[Illinois and Michigan Canal]]. A small settlement of German farmers also inhabited Flagg Creek by the 1880s.

In 1917, the [[International Harvester]] Company purchased {{convert|414|acre|km2|1}} for an experimental farm, where it tested the world's first all-purpose [[tractor]], the [[Farmall]]. Also in 1917, the Cook County Prison Farm (also known as the Bridewell Farm) began operation in what is now Burr Ridge.

In 1947, developer Robert Bartlett, whose company also developed [[Beverly Shores, Indiana|Beverly Shores]] and [[Countryside, Illinois|Countryside]], established the Hinsdale Countryside Estates out of a former pig farm. In 1956 these residents decided to incorporate as the village of Harvester, in honor of International Harvester.

In the 1940s, Denver Busby bought {{convert|190|acre|km2|1}} that became known as the Burr Ridge dairy farm. He later launched the Burr Ridge Estates, with {{convert|5|acre|m2|adj=on}} home sites. In 1961, [[International Harvester]] and the Burr Ridges Estates merged with Harvester, changing the community's name to Burr Ridge. The town name is derived from a group of [[bur oak]]. By 1963, the population had more than doubled, to 790, and by 1975 it had soared to over 2,200.

In 1969, Chicago mayor [[Richard J. Daley]] suggested a proposal to build low-income subsidized housing on the prison farm property, but [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]-dominated DuPage County quashed the idea. The prison farm site became the Ambriance subdivision, a gated community of multimillion-dollar homes. The Four Pines Farm gave way to the Carriage Way subdivision, at whose entrance the original farmhouse still stands,<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Leary |first=Ginny |title=Ginny's Letter |url=https://www.carriageway.org/ginny-s-letter |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=Carriage Way |language=en |publication-place=Burr Ridge |publication-date=1976 |via=Burr Ridge Bicentennial Booklet}}</ref> and in 1971 additional farmland became the Braemoor neighborhood. An area known as Valley View, once owned by a Chicago industrialist and later by the Chicago chapter of the [[Boy Scouts of America]], was developed in the early 1970s as the Burr Ridge Club. The village also has five corporate parks. As with other towns in the industrial corridor southwest of Chicago, close proximity to [[Interstate 294|Interstates 294]] and [[Interstate 55|55]] spurred development in Burr Ridge.