In spring 1970, the land along La Grange Road in Orland Park, Illinois, was still being farmed.
That year, workers from Illinois Lawn Equipment came to the Rafacz Sod Farm for outdoor field days. The area was open and flat, with no notable buildings around it.
Within five years, the same land looked very different. Aerial photographs from 1975 show steel beams rising where rows of sod had once grown…