From Hoosier Grove Dairy Farms to a ‘Town of Tomorrow’
The area now called Streamwood was known as Hoosier Grove and was home to dairy farmers from the 1830s through the 1950s; as late as 1950, the future Streamwood area in Hanover Township had only about 800 residents scattered across farms. That changed in 1956, when Maxon Construction, working with L H Builders, erected 21 pre-assembled houses on concrete slabs at Bartlett and Schaumburg Roads -- homes shipped from Indiana by the National Homes Corporation as packaged units with insulated walls, ceiling and roof sections, and framing already built.
Slab Construction Changes Where Moisture Shows Up
Streamwood was incorporated as a village on February 9, 1957, marketed as a “Town of Tomorrow” for returning war veterans, and its population grew from roughly 800 in 1950 to 4,821 by 1960 as that single wave of slab-built housing filled in. Slab-on-grade construction from that era doesn't carry the crawl-space moisture risks of an older raised-foundation home, but it brings its own profile: condensation at slab edges, vapor drive up through concrete, and moisture trapped under flooring installed directly on the slab.
Mold Remediation for Streamwood Homes
One Construction Wave, One Set of Shared Risks
Because so much of Streamwood's original housing went up in the same short building program, slab-related moisture issues in one home often point to the same underlying condition in homes built during that same 1956-57 wave nearby.