City profile · Town
Prospect Heights, Illinois
Verified Oct 11, 2026Who leads Prospect Heights, with the evidence behind the record.
City leadership
- Leader
- Patrick Ludvigsen
- Role
- Mayor
- Population
- 17,081
- Census Bureau estimate
- Last verified
- Oct 11, 2026
- Matched the official page in an automated check
- Last checked
- Oct 11, 2026
- The check matched the published record
Source & verification
- Verification sourceprospect-heights.il.us/m/directory/employee?eid=27 ↗
- Official leadership pageprospect-heights.il.us/m/directory/employee?eid=27 ↗
- City websiteprospect-heights.il.us ↗
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Record history
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Leaders on record
- Patrick Ludvigsen CurrentMayor · added Aug 1, 2026 · verified Oct 11, 2026
- Nick Helmer FormerMayor (Ceremonial) · added May 4, 2026
Reviewed changes
No reviewer-published changes yet.
Demographics
Census Bureau data for the city
- Population
- 17,081
- Median household income
- $84,459
- Median age
- 41.1
- Land area
- 4.21 sq mi
- Population density
- 4,057.2 per sq mi
- County
- Cook County
- Metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
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