[2] The community is primarily residential, and has a dedicated police department, post office, and Metra train stop.

In 1897, the Glen View Club bought a portion of the Dewes land and built an 18-hole golf course.

Earling arranged to have his car switched to a special siding at what is now the Golf train station.

In 1925 Edward R. Diederich, a Chicago businessman, wanted to buy an acre of land near the Glen View Golf Club to build a country home.

He found that in order to get the site he wanted, he would have to purchase a 30-acre (12 ha) tract that was being sold to close an estate.

Golf School was built in 1927, just south of the village, at a location that would become 9401 Waukegan Road in Morton Grove.

At the time it was a prototypical country school house - a wooden structure with four rooms, no electricity, and no running water.

A 1930s Works Progress Administration project constructed a large brick structure east of the original building.

As demographics changed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Golf residents chose to align with the more upscale school districts in Glenview.

More than two-thirds of the registered voters in the detachment area (village of Golf and the adjacent Golf Acres subdivision of the village of Glenview) signed the petition to detach from Niles Township High School District 219 and to attach to Northfield Township High School District 225.