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Hoffman Estates residents will have an opportunity in April to vote on whether the village should continue pursuing its own ZIP code, but the issue may be settled before then.
Mayor William McLeod announced last week that U.S. Postal Service officials have made an offer that would put most of the suburb into one old and one new ZIP code beginning in mid-2006.
“It’s a good proposal that gives us 95 percent of what we’re asking for,” McLeod said.
The village of 50,000 has been seeking its own ZIP code for more than 25 years, he said. Parts of the village are in ZIP codes for Schaumburg, Barrington and Palatine, which McLeod said makes it difficult for Hoffman Estates to track whether it is being allocated its share of some taxes.
