Mobile Homes for Sale in Mount Prospect, IL

Mount Prospect sprawls about 24 miles northwest of Chicago and close enough to Chicago O’Hare International Airport to hear engines close overhead. “When Mount Prospect started in the late 1800s, it was a flag stop,” says Tom Zander, a longtime resident and Realtor partner with his wife Mary Zander at Berkshire Hathaway Starck Real Estate. “The train didn’t regularly stop here unless the town put a flag out on a pole and indicated someone needed to stop. There were a lot of farms out here, dairy farms for miles.” Later developments occurred right around the station, and neat blocks of midcentury homes still extend outward to this day as modern Metra connections head down the tracks. Mount Prospect’s transition from a sleepy bedroom community to its current state was strengthened by an extensive downtown redevelopment in the 1990s and 2000s, which brought wrought iron lampposts, brick crosswalks and mixed-use properties around the Village Hall and Centennial Green park downtown. Other walkable commercial developments, several highly-rated school districts and highly involved community organizations attract newcomers as the current population just passes the 54,000 mark. “It’s