Arlington Heights Air Force Station

The Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site was a Project Nike Missile Master installation started in late 1959 after the United States Army had purchased 44 acres (18 ha).† Adjacent to the Arlington Heights Air Force Station, the Arlington Heights Army Installation opened on October 28, 1960, as the 8th of 10 Army Air Defense Command Posts (AADCP) to have a Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System installed for Nike-Hercules command and control. In addition to the Army's 2 AN/FPS-6 radars, the radars of the co-located USAF station provided AADCP data for the 45th Artillery Brigade's control of the Chicago-Gary Defense Area (10 missile batteries and their Integrated Fire Control sites).[1] The vacuum tube AN/FSG-1 was replaced c. October 1967* with a solid-state Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination System, which controlled the combined Chicago-Milwaukee Defense Area after the Milwaukee Defense Area merged with Chicago-Gary in 1968. Project Concise ended the site's Nike operations in 1974, and 52 acres (21 ha) were transferred to the city parks district. A May 1979 golf course was built near the nuclear bunker—the Arlington Lakes Golf Club has 90 acres (36 ha) with 14 lakes.

Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) is a 489-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1959, the hospital serves 200,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients annually. The hospital operates a Level 2 Trauma Center, Level III NICU, a pediatric emergency department and a Primary Stroke Center. NCH has four Immediate Care locations in the northwest suburbs and operates a walk-in clinic in Palatine. NCH has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians, which includes the board-certified primary care doctors and specialists of the NCH Medical Group.

Arlington Town Square is a retail and apartment development located in Arlington Heights. After a huge revamp and building boom, numerous new condominium, retail, office, and park spaces were built so improving the area. It is home to national retail and restaurant chains, along with local, independent business. The center is also home to the Arlington Theaters. Major stores and restaurants include Passero, Ann Taylor LOFT, Yankee Candle, Bath and Body Works, @properties, Sportsclips, Noodles & Company, and Starbucks Coffee.

Rolling Meadows High School, RMHS, is a public four-year high school located in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Township High School District 214, the second largest high school district in Illinois, after Township High School District 211. The other five schools include Buffalo Grove High School, Elk Grove High School, John Hersey High School, Prospect High School, and Wheeling High School. It serves primarily central and east Rolling Meadows (east of Route 53), a significant part of Arlington Heights and a small part of Mount Prospect. Its feeder schools are South Middle School, Holmes Junior High School, Carl Sandburg Junior High School, and Our Lady of the Wayside, a private Catholic school. Rolling Meadows High School first opened for the 1971-1972 school year.

Arlington Heights is one of two commuter railroad stations along Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line in the village of Arlington Heights, Illinois. The station is located at 45 West Northwest Highway (US 14), between Vail and Dunton Avenues, and lies 22.9 miles (36.9 km) from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and 40.3 miles (64.9 km) from Harvard. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Arlington Heights is in zone E. As of 2018, Arlington Heights is the fifth busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 2,506 weekday boardings.As of April 25, 2022, Arlington Heights is served by 27 inbound trains and 28 outbound trains on weekdays, by all 17 trains in both directions on Saturdays, and by all 10 inbound trains and all 11 outbound trains on Sundays. Four inbound trains originate from Arlington Heights, and four outbound trains terminate at Arlington Heights on weekdays. One inbound train originates from Arlington Heights on weekends. Parking is available along Northwest Highway and the north side of the tracks from east of Walnut Avenue to Dunton Avenue. It is also available on the south side of the tracks between Vail and Dunton Avenues leading into Payton Run. A much larger parking lot exists on the south side of the track between Evergreen Avenue and Arlington Heights Road north of Sigwalt Street. A fourth parking lot is available north of US 14 along Vail Avenue between St. James and Fremont Streets. Three others are not available to commuters. There is a newsstand, restroom and staffed (weekday mornings) ticket agent inside the station building.

The Ned Brown Forest Preserve, popularly known as Busse Woods, adjoining Elk Grove Village and Schaumburg in Illinois, is a 3,700-acre (1,500 ha) unit of the Cook County Forest Preserve system. It is named after Edward "Ned" Eagle Brown. A section of the northeast quadrant of the forest preserve is the Busse Forest Nature Preserve, which was registered as a National Natural Landmark in February 1980. Busse Forest Preserve (Busse Woods) was named for Cook County Commissioner William Busse in 1949.

The Müller House is a historic house located at 500 North Vail Avenue in Arlington Heights, Illinois. F.W. Müller built the house for his family and their soda water business in 1882. The Müller business was one of the first commercial establishments in Arlington Heights and was part of the city's early transition from a rural settlement to a large suburb of Chicago. The house is also an uncommon blend of architectural styles; while it features a Greek Revival cornice with scrolled brackets and a symmetrical front facade, the style is not seen elsewhere in the house, which otherwise has a Victorian design. The design also combines the functional necessities of the factory with the decorative features of a middle-class home; prominent among the latter is the house's woodwork, which includes a carved oak staircase.The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1979. It is now part of the Arlington Heights Historical Museum.

The Nathaniel Moore Banta House is an Arts and Crafts residence adjacent to the Muller House on the grounds of the Arlington Heights Historical Museum, United States. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since May 20, 1998.

Christian Liberty Academy (CLA) is a private Christian school serving about 500 students, located in Arlington Heights, Cook County, Illinois. The school serves families who live in 69 surrounding cities. CLA has grades preschool through twelfth grade and was founded in 1968 under the auspices of the Church of Christian Liberty. The church provides oversight for the school as one of its ministries, though students and parents are not required to be members or attend the church.

Arlington High School was a public high school located in Arlington Heights, Illinois, which operated from 1922 to 1984. It was the oldest school in Township High School District 214 which served students in Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Mount Prospect, Prospect Heights, Rolling Meadows and Wheeling, Illinois. The school occupied a site that is approximately 1.3 km due east of Arlington Racetrack. In the mid-1980s, District 214 had budget concerns with declining enrollment. As a result, the district board members decided to close Arlington High School in 1984, and Forest View High School in 1986.

Vanguard School is a public high school located in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It is part of Township High School District 214.

The Arlington Heights Park District is one of the oldest and (financially) largest park districts in the Chicago metropolitan area. With two golf clubs and five outdoor pools, plus one indoor, it can be considered one of the most elaborate park districts northwest of Chicago. The district collects property taxes through the village of Arlington Heights. The annual budget for 2010/2011 was a near $25,000,000. The Board of Commissioners are selected by the community, each of whom selected will serve a four-year term.