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Orland Hills traces its origins to the Village of Westhaven, which was incorporated on June 30, 1961. At incorporation its boundaries ran from 167th Street on the north to 169th Street on the south, and from 94th Avenue on the west to 90th Avenue on the east, and the first village board met on August 3, 1961 with President Raymond Pecor presiding. Through the 1960s and early 1970s the young village expanded through a series of annexations, reaching north to 159th Street and south to 171st Street, and in 1974 the first single-family housing development arrived, which also set aside open land for stormwater storage, a man-made lake, and the five acres that became Richard F. Kelly Park.

Rapid residential growth defined the late 1970s and 1980s. A special census in 1978 counted just 2,034 residents, but new subdivisions such as Green Acres, Park View, and Westwood pushed the population to roughly 2,703 by 1980 and to just under 5,000 by the mid-1980s. In April 1986, the village board passed an ordinance changing the community's name from Westhaven to Orland Hills. Development continued through the 1990s and 2000s with subdivisions like Pepperwood, which added about 330 homes beginning in 1996, and the Liberty Square condominiums beginning in 2002, cementing the village's character as a planned, residential community.