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Surrounded by acres of rolling countryside, Bowes Creek Country Club is a golf course community of luxurious homes located in Elgin, IL. In Bowes Creek Country Club you’ll live in a place where grace and elegance are part of your everyday life.

A Convenient Place to Live

At Bowes Creek Country Club, you will enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of country club living with a wide choice of cultural events close to home. Bowes Creek Country Club Golf Course This master is only 10 minutes from Interstate 90. St. Charles, Geneva, and West Dundee can be reached in 15 minutes. Commuting to Chicago is an easy hour ride on Metra from the Elgin stop, which is located just 10 minutes away. The Bowes Creek Golf Course is a public course designed by Jacobson Golf Course Design to be enjoyable O’Hare Airport can be reached in just 40 minutes. for all levels of golfers. The course layout takes advantage of all the natural amenities the site has to offer including Bowes Creek, woodland and wetland areas, and dramatic bluff slopes. The course will play from 5,100 yards to 6,900 yards with expansive fairways and four tees for every hole. A Focus on Education A Cultural and Recreational Paradise

At Bowes Creek Country Club, you will enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of country club living with a wide choice of cultural Bowes Creek Country Club, offering you both an exclusive neighborhood and a classic lifestyle, is an ideal place for you and events close to home. As a Bowes Creek Country Club homeowner, you will join a community where education your family to make new friends. It is a tranquil place to live with almost every type of recreational activity close at hand. is given the highest priority. In addition to the golf course in your own backyard, several challenging private and semi-private golf courses are nearby, Desirable Central School District 301 and School District U-46, the second largest in Illinois, reflect the community’s including Elgin Country Club, St. Charles Country Club, and Royal Fox. Challenging public golf courses including Wing , strong commitment to education and its dedication to continued growth and development. Illinois’ teacher of the Rolling Knolls, and Spartan Meadows are within 15 minutes. Beautiful Lake Michigan is only an hour away and offers boating 2003-2004 school year hails from School District U-46. and other water sports. Several local and state are within 10 minutes, including Wing Park and Lords Park Pavilion. At these parks you and your family can enjoy swimming, fishing, ice skating, hiking, and picnicking. Superb private and parochial schools, including St. Thomas More Elementary, Good Shepard Lutheran, and St. Mary’s, Fitness and exercise clubs are within five minutes of your new home. along with excellent private high schools including Elgin Academy, St. Edward Central Catholic, and Westminster Christian School are all within minutes of Bowes Creek Country Club. The Kane County area offers history, art, culture, and adventure. The nearby Hemmens Cultural Center offers you a chance to catch local performing musicians and writers in an intimate setting, as well as The Elgin Symphony Orchestra, one of the best Judson College and Elgin Community College are less than 15 minutes away. In addition, many other excellent in Illinois. Sports fans can root for professional sports teams including the Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Bulls or Blackhawks. academic institutions in Chicago including the University of Chicago, Northwestern, DePaul, Loyola, and For fine dining, there are many excellent restaurants and country inns nearby. University of Illinois at Chicago are just an hour away. • In downtown Chicago you can enjoy a fabulous range of cultural and recreational activities and explore an eclectic array of international dining, world-class entertainment, museums, and art galleries. World-Class Shopping at Your Doorstep!

Bowes Creek Country Club is close to all types of shopping, from quaint antique and specialty boutiques to modern malls. For convenient one-stop shopping, Jewel, Meijer, and many other shops are less than 5 minutes away. In charming Geneva and St. Charles, you will discover unique stores where you can count on receiving personalized service from shopkeepers who remember you by name. The Spring Hill Mall, which includes Marshall Fields and Carson Pirie Scott, is only 15 minutes from Bowes Creek. Algonquin Commons featuring more than 30 excellent stores is also only 15 minutes away. The fabulous Woodfield Mall is 35 minutes away with Nordstrom, Marshall Field’s, Lord & Taylor and more than 120 fine specialty shops. • The Best in Community Services

Excellent medical facilities are comfortably close to Bowes Creek Country Club. Provena St. Joseph, only 10 minutes from your new home, offers a complete range of medical services. In addition, the hospitals and medical care facilities of the Chicagoland area, acclaimed world-wide for An Area of Unequalled Beauty research and treatment, are very accessible.

Also serving the community of Bowes Creek Country Club are of worship representing almost all faiths. At Bowes Creek Country Club, your home is a private haven in a glorious landscape just minutes from any convenience you may need. In addition, the homes afford an uncommon standard of excellence due to their superior design and quality craftsmanship. You will live and entertain with pride in Bowes Creek Country Club. A Name That Means Luxury Living Toll Brothers Is Proud to Help Preserve Our Environment At Toll Brothers, we believe that preserving the natural At Toll Brothers, we build more than homes, we build communities. For more than 38 years we’ve environment is an integral part of creating a community you’ll be been communities in picturesque settings where luxury meets convenience, and where proud to call home. We take our commitment to environmental neighbors become lifelong friends. Toll Brothers is there–in the smallest finishing details of your stewardship seriously. home, in the setting that makes your home part of a neighborhood, and in the neighborhoods that create your community. Nationwide, Toll Brothers encourages environmental awareness and protection by partnering with conservation groups that include: When you choose Toll Brothers, you choose our unwavering commitment to quality and customer service. We are honored to have won the three most coveted awards in the home building industry: America's Best Builder, National Builder of the Year, and the National Housing • The National Wildlife Federation Quality Award. In addition, we have recently been chosen as the First Place Winner for • The Audubon Society Innovative Product Design in the Big Builder Apex Awards–where we were also recognized for Leadership and Management, and Operational Excellence; and named as one of the Most Through these respected organizations, we’ve earned community Admired Big Builders of the Year. certifications for programs such as Backyard Wildlife Habitats and Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries for Golf Courses. But our greatest reward comes from the recognition we receive from our homeowners. As the These certifications assure our residents that the natural beauty of nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, we take pride in creating homes that are as beautiful to their communities will remain a proud legacy for generations to come. look at as they are comfortable to live in. Each Toll Brothers home offers a combination of quality materials and superior design, where every detail is meticulously crafted and every enhancement The homes we build are specifically designed to harmonize with the scenic beauty of the you select is seamlessly added to create a customized home that is uniquely yours. surrounding landscape. We preserve as much open space as possible, incorporating the existing hills, trees and ponds.

As part of our award-winning conservation efforts, where possible we: Choose Convenient Home Services For One-Stop Shopping! • Save and transplant thousands of existing trees The following Toll Brothers subsidiaries offer a full range of home services to better serve you and • Plant new trees throughout our communities maximize your time: • Preserve and restore existing waterways TBI Mortgage has an understanding of the home buying process that no other lender can match. • Maintain designated open space We have considerable access to a national marketplace for mortgage funds, and can provide • Design communities that incorporate and conserve existing landscape flexible terms and alternatives not generally offered by other lenders. We continuously monitor • Create walking trails dedicated to the enjoyment of these tranquil settings the mortgage market to ensure that the very best programs are available at preferred rates. Toll Brothers is the nation’s premier builder of luxury homes and is currently building in Arizona, Westminster Security will provide a home security system as a standard feature in your home, , Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, , Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, at no cost, with the purchase of a three-year monitoring agreement. Upgraded home security Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode systems are available, with the purchase of a monitoring agreement, at a discounted cost. Island, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. With this experience behind us, you can be assured Ask your salesperson about our competitive rates. that your new home here in Bowes Creek Country Club will be a source of pride and satisfaction for many years to come. Toll Brothers, Inc., is the successor to three generations of home builders and is a publicly owned company whose stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange The Toll Brothers Buyer Satisfaction Program (NYSE:TOL).

Our ultimate goal is for you to move into a home built to the highest standards. To make sure your home meets your expectations, we offer a unique two-step pre-settlement orientation program. The first orientation takes place five to seven days before settlement, utilizing Toll Brothers’ detailed checklist as a guide. Then, once again prior to settlement, you’ll inspect your home to see that every item you noted at the first orientation has been addressed. The result Copyright 2005 by Toll Brothers, Inc. All copy, plans, and art work contained in or represented by this brochure is that you can entertain guests as soon as you move in! To give you lasting peace of mind, we and its enclosures are the sole property of Toll Brothers, Inc. Photos are used for representative purposes only. also give you a ten-year limited warranty. Any reproduction of them or other use without the written permission of Toll Brothers, Inc. is strictly prohibited. 25 47 31

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