Streamwood's 1956 "Town of Tomorrow" and Its Slab-Built Windows
Streamwood's Hoosier Grove area was dairy-farming country from the 1830s through the 1950s, still home to only about 800 residents across Hanover Township as late as 1950. That changed fast in 1956, when Maxon Construction and L H Builders erected 21 pre-assembled houses on concrete slabs at Bartlett and Schaumburg Roads -- panelized walls, ceiling, and roof sections shipped in from Indiana by the National Homes Corporation and marketed as a "Town of Tomorrow" for returning war veterans. The village incorporated on February 9, 1957, and its population jumped from roughly 800 in 1950 to 4,821 by 1960.
What Prefabricated 1950s Construction Means for Replacement Sizing
Because that first wave of Streamwood housing arrived as factory-built, panelized sections rather than site-framed construction, window openings across those original slab houses tend to be far more consistent and standardized than in the 19th-century Fox River towns nearby, which usually makes sourcing a compatible replacement window more straightforward here than tracking down a historic-sash match. The trade-off is that many of these houses are now closing in on seventy years old, so the panelized framing around each opening is worth checking for square and level before ordering standard-size units.