Orland Hills is a village in Cook County, Illinois.
Orland Hills is 23 miles SW of the Chicago Loop. A village of one and a half square miles,
Orland Hills borders neighboring Orland Park on the west and north and Tinley Park to the east and south.
For countless centuries, the area of Orland Hills, as with much of the south metropolitan region, was predominantly open prairie. Large wooded areas and marshes existed to the north, but the immediate ground was prairie with small wetlands.
With the exception of minor growth in the small village of Orland Park, Orland Township maintained a stable rural population for a hundred years. Throughout the south suburbs, however, growth exploded in the 1950s.
Part of this growth in the late 1950s was a small subdivision of a little over 100 homes at the intersection of 167th Street and 94th Avenue.
To gain municipal services, the residents of this subdivision incorporated as the Village of Westhaven in 1961.
In 1986, the name of the village was changed to Orland Hills so that it would be more closely and clearly identified as part of Orland Township and the Orland Park area. Commercial development along 159th Street and parts of 94th Avenue has emerged in the 1990s. During development several areas were preserved as wetlands and recreation, including a small lake.
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