• Palatine Hills Golf Course
• Family Aquatic Center
• Palatine Horse Stables
• Community Center
• Birchwood Park Recreation Center
• Palatine Trail winds scenically through neighborhood parks, the Palatine Hills Golf Course, Deer Grove Forest Preserve, and Harper College
• Cutting Hall is a 430-seat auditorium
• Fred P. Hall Amphitheatre
• George Clayson Historical Museum and Library

• Recreational services including summer camps, and Pre-School programs and adult breakways
• Boating, fishing, driving range and Nine hole executive golf course
• Jogging trail, four sand volleyball courts, a shuffleboard court, horseshoe pits, and a handicapped accessible playground
• Two picnic pavilions at Twin Lakes Recreation Area
• Five neighborhood parks for residents' enjoyment

• Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index has named the Palatine Public Library among the top five libraries in the nation serving populations between 50,000 and 100,000 people
• Youth Department is the busiest among public libraries in the northern suburbs
• Rand Road Branch, located in the Northeast Community Resource Center. This branch features a full range of library materials including internet access
• Bookmobile service

• Palatine is only 28 miles from the Chicago Loop, and 14 miles from O'Hare International Airport. Street, air, rail and bus transportation options are available throughout the Village
• Major Highways Serving Palatine: I-90 two miles south
• I-294 eight miles east, I-290/Illinois Route 53, and U.S. Routes 12 & 14

• The district is the only educational organization in Illinois to win the Level III Lincoln Award for Excellence and the first in the nation to win the National School Boards Association/Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education Reed Hundt Award for Excellence in Technology
• The kindergarten through eighth-grade system serves all or part of Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Inverness, Hoffman Estates, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, and South Barrington

Five District 211 schools have been nationally recognized by the United States Department of Education as Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence. Palatine's two high schools, William Fremd and Palatine High, were named among the nation's top 99 high schools by U.S. News and World Report, while District 211 was recognized as one of the country's best school districts by Expansion Management Magazine, a corporate relocation publication.

• Catholic schools St. Thomas of Villanova School and St. Theresa School in Palatine, St. Colette School in Rolling Meadows and Immanuel Lutheran School of Palatine
• Quest Academy is an accredited independent day school for gifted and talented students from preschool to eighth grade, educating children from over 40 Chicago area communities

Kirk Developmental Training Center and Little City Foundation

Harper College offers three two-year degrees, as well as a wide range of certificate programs, special interest, vocational and continuing education classes.

Roosevelt University's Albert A. Robin Campus is located in Schaumburg. The state-of-the-art campus offers all student services, 61 computer-ready classrooms, laboratories, an electronic library, student lounges, and a bookstore.