New Schaumburg village hall making significant progress with a year to go before occupancy

Schaumburg’s new village hall has made major construction progress since it was last seen up close by thousands of residents during Septemberfest over Labor Day weekend.

Though his office is now at the temporary village hall at 1000 E. Woodfield Road, Mayor Tom Dailly said the permanent building at 101 Schaumburg Court is on schedule.

“We’re hoping it’ll be done by Halloween so we can move in in November,” he said.

The foundation that was only half done during its Septemberfest reveal is now completed. Only some planter boxes and the front steps remain to be poured, Schaumburg Communications Director Kassondra Schref said.

Recent progress includes the installation of the first- and second-floor structure and its precast floor planks, she added.

Though the municipal campus will again welcome visitors for the tree-lighting ceremony to the east Friday, the darkness of the evening event won’t afford much view of the work on village hall.

The roof structure will begin installation just after this event and likely be completed by the end of the year. The actual roof membrane should be done if January if weather allows, Schref said.

Underground utilities are being installed with the basement and first-floor topping slabs to be poured by the end of the year. Most of the stormwater pipes are already in with the rest to be done late in the project due to access on the north side of the building.

The old parking lot has been removed and will be reinstalled in the spring.

A new water service loop will be connected the first week of December, gas service in February and electric service in the early spring.

Dailly said discussion of the formal name of the new village hall won’t begin until sometime after the holidays.

The family of former Schaumburg mayor Bob Atcher are lobbying for retention of the name “Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center” that adorned the previous 52-year-old building from the time of Atcher’s 1993 death. They don’t believe the aging of the former facility put an expiration date on their patriarch’s legacy.

But current officials have indicated the name of a new building constructed in a different era isn’t a foregone conclusion.

The Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts next door is named for the most recent former mayor, who served in that capacity from 1987 to 2019. And within it is the Maggie Atcher Theatre, named for Bob Atcher’s wife.

The Schaumburg Park District’s Atcher Island Water Park is also named in honor of the former mayor.