Golf in Mount Prospect

Mount Prospect is a village in Cook County, an established suburb in Chicago's northwest reaches near O'Hare International Airport. Largely residential, it grew rapidly through the mid-twentieth century into a busy, fully developed community of neighborhoods and commercial districts. Its location near the airport and the expressways of the northwest metro has made it both a bedroom suburb and a convenient base within the region. The terrain here is the gently worked ground typical of the inner northwest suburbs, where dense development leaves open green space at a premium. Golf in Mount Prospect includes a municipal course owned by the park district and a country club set among the residential neighborhoods. For golfers, the village offers rounds within a heavily built suburban area near O'Hare, where such stretches of green provide a welcome contrast to the surrounding density of the northwest metro.