[11] Companies based in Mount Prospect include Cummins Allison, NTN USA and Rauland-Borg.

The former United Airlines headquarters in Elk Grove Township was annexed into Mount Prospect in the 2010s.

[12][13] According to the Village's 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[14] the top employers in the city are: Mount Prospect has a number of award-winning[which?]

North (and somewhat east) Mount Prospect is served by River Trails School District 26.

South (and somewhat west) Mount Prospect is served by Elk Grove Community Consolidated School District 59.

A very small portion of northern Mount Prospect in its northernmost point is served by Buffalo Grove-Wheeling Community Consolidated District 21.

A small part of north central Mount Prospect is also served by Arlington Heights School District 25.

[17] The Mount Prospect station provides Metra commuter rail service along the Union Pacific Northwest Line.

[18] A Mount Prospect Police cruiser appears in a season 11 episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”, as an homage to Blue Brothers.