Pingree Grove Window Well Covers & Basement Windows
Pingree Grove had 124 residents in 2000. It has more than 10,000 now. Half the housing here was built in 2010 or later, another 44% between 1990 and 2009, and — this is the number that tells the whole story — exactly zero percent was built between 1970 and 1989. This is a village that barely existed in its current form until Cambridge Lakes.
That gives it the youngest housing stock we work on anywhere. It also means something useful for homeowners here: these wells were set to a modern code, so the problem is almost never sizing. It is covers, drainage and settling.
A new village on an old creek
Pingree Creek runs through the village and joins Tyler Creek, which reaches the Fox River at Elgin. FEMA has studied roughly 14,500 feet of Pingree Creek upstream from that confluence. The village's FEMA community number is 171078, mapped under the Kane County countywide study.
In the July 2017 storms, the National Weather Service logged flash flooding here with cars stuck near Routes 47 and 72. Elgin, just down the creek, took 7.31 inches over two days and basements across the area flooded.
One local note worth being straight about: in the Carillon 55+ section of Cambridge Lakes, basements were offered as an option on some home series and not on others. A good number of homes here have no basement at all — so if you are new to the village and wondering why a neighbour has never mentioned a window well, that may be the reason.
Permits and egress in Pingree Grove
The village's codified ordinance adopts the 2021 International Residential Code, along with the 2021 IBC, IMC and IFC and the 2020 NEC. Worth flagging before you rely on it: the Building Department's own web page still says the village follows the 2003 International Building Code. The codified ordinance is the newer and more authoritative text, but confirm with the Building Department at 847-464-5533, extension 1512.
We read the village's building code amendments. There are no Pingree Grove changes to the egress window, window well, sump pump or drain tile requirements, so the 2021 IRC applies as written. The amendments that do touch basements are procedural: an inspection is required after the foundation drainage system and damp proofing are complete, and top-of-foundation elevations in USGS datum, prepared by a registered land surveyor, must be submitted before final occupancy.
Basement buildouts and remodels are a listed permit category. Window work is not listed at all, so that one is worth a phone call rather than an assumption.
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