Village of Schaumburg history

On June 1, 1960 Henry was found in the Boeger house, dead of a heart attack.

The original comprehensive plan adopted by the Village Board in 1961, reserved large tracts of land for industrial, commercial, and office development.

In digging into the Daily Herald, an article from September 11, 1970 sheds a bit of light on this family.

In the northeastern area emerged Woodfield Mall, opened in 1971 and one of the region's largest shopping centers.

In a photo caption from a June 14, 1972 issue of an unknown Copley newspaper, (which was most likely The Record) the proposed design would “feature offices on the second floor… and stores on the first floor.”

The only other photo is from the July 26, 1974 story that ran in the Daily Herald.

On a Saturday night in 1975, the rock group KISS came to perform at Fremd High School in Palatine.

In an article from the May 21, 1976 issue of the Daily Herald, it mentions that the house was eventually dismantled that year and donated to the Arlington Heights Park District.

The Township moved from "The Buttery" on Roselle Road to the old "Blackhawk School" in 1977.

The restaurant sat vacant and, according to an article in the August 18, 1982 issue of the Daily Herald, the Schaumburg Township District Library looked into using the building as a possible branch.

Ads beginning in September 1984 showed that it was also a diner featuring breakfast, lunch and dinner.

That iteration apparently didn’t flourish either because, by October 11, 1985, the establishment had once again undergone a name change and was now called Lambert’s Family Restaurant.

The airport continued to be privately operated until 1994, when the Village of Schaumburg purchased it in order to prevent it from being sold to developers.

Bouska died in a plane crash at the airport on April 16, 1995, the day the airport closed for renovation after the village’s purchase.

In 1998, after purchase by the village, a 26,000 square foot terminal building was completed, including space for a restaurant, public meeting rooms and units for individual businesses to operate.

Started in 2001, this historical collection features digitized images and materials from the Schaumburg area.

In an article from the November 2, 2011 issue of The Beachwood Reporter, Steve Rhodes reported that the Booster Club had the students vote on the band that they would most like to see perform at the school.

The portions of this article that are in italics first appeared in the Roselle History Museum Newsletter in Spring 2012.

The year 2016 saw the installation of an AWOS (Automated Weather Observation Station) “which provides pilots flying in and out of [the airport] with accurate and up-to-date weather information which is essential to safe operation of the airfield.”