A digital monolith outside Buffalo Grove High School shares school news and messages with passers-by.
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Incorporated in 1958, Buffalo Grove straddles the border between Cook and Lake counties, with about a quarter of its roughly 9.5-square-mile area extending south of Lake-Cook Road in Cook County's Wheeling Township, and the rest north of it, in Lake's Vernon Township.
According to the village's website, www.vbg.org, its estimated population was 41,715 as of 2012.
The earliest settlers arrived in the area in 1834, according to the Raupp Museum's timeline, with notable early settlers including John Simon Henneman, Jacob "Little Jake" Weidner and Melchoir Raupp.
The village contains Aptakisic-Tripp School District 102, most of Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 and several schools in Wheeling Township Elementary District 21, as well as Buffalo Grove High School, part of Northwest Suburban High School District 214.
Most public high school students in the Cook County portion attend Buffalo Grove High School or Wheeling High School, while most in the Lake County portion attend Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire.
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Named for a former Buffalo Grove village president, the Elliott Hartstein Trail winds through a residential neighborhood.
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The Alcott Center is the main office of the Buffalo Grove Park District.
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A painted bison - one of many in Buffalo Grove - stands watch at the Buffalo Grove Bills Youth Football and Cheerleading facility at Emmerich East Park.
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Playing fields for baseball and football at East Emmerich Park.
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Originally built in 1967, the bridge that spans Buffalo Creek on Raupp Boulevard was rebuilt in 2015.
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The bison outside the Dale Ducommun Parks Facility has a stonier gaze than his peers.
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Buffalo Grove Village Hall at Raupp Boulevard and Lake-Cook Road.
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Another bison greets visitors to Buffalo Grove Village Hall.
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The bison outside the Buffalo Grove Public Service Center guards the vehicles of the village's Public Works Department
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Lake-Cook Road separates Cook and Lake counties, but it only passes through Buffalo Grove. Roughly a quarter of the village's area is in Cook County, with the rest in Lake.
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A message to the students of St. Mary School as summer approaches.
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The steeple of St. Mary Church towers over even the trees.
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The Buffalo Grove Road entrance to St. Mary Church, founded in 1852.
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St. Mary School's bison sports the school's team colors.
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