NNO brings together individuals from communities in all 50 states, United States territories, and military bases worldwide. This includes:

Businesses Citizens Community groups

Law enforcement agencies Officials Youth organizations

Over 38 million people from 16,790 communities celebrated NNO in 2018.

Mission of National Night Out

The mission of National Night Out is to:

Generate support for and participation in local anti-crime programs Heighten crime prevention awareness

Send a message to criminals, letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships

2022 Will Be VHPD's 25th Annual NNO Event

The 2022 National Night Out event was held on Tuesday, August 2, in Hartmann Park on Oakwood Rd. It was our 25th year of participating in National Night Out. (Yes, 2018 did get rained out, but we are counting it anyway.) We had free food and ice cream, several inflatables to jump on, face painting, a water spray and enough music to get everyone moving. The bookmobile from the Cook Memorial Library was also on hand as was representatives from the Vernon Hills Park District and Hawthorn School District 73.

The Numbers

As is always the case, we had plenty of food to go around. The crowd seemed slightly larger than in past years. We cooked up 500 hot dogs, 400 hamburgers and Chik-fil-A provided 500 chicken sandwiches.  By the time the event ended we had also gone through 996 bottles of water, over 1,098 cans of pop, 160 fruit juices, 1,350 bags of snacks and 720 ice cream bars!

As always, NNO is completely free and is meant for our residents to come out and get to know their neighbors, meet the police and (most of all) have fun!

Annual Volleyball Matches

Teams from the Vernon Hills Summer Celebration Committee, the Vernon Hills Park District, Vernon Hills High School and the Depke Juvenile Complex took part in some (friendly) volleyball matches.

Our Fabulous Sponsors

The 2022 national sponsors of NNO are Starbucks, Renewal by Anderson, Academy Sports + Outdoors and AT&T.

Our Incredible Volunteers

Trying to pull off an event like NNO would not be possible without the assistance of many, many volunteers. Huge thanks goes out to some our Citizen's Police Academy graduates and other great Vernon Hills residents who graciously donated their time to help serve food, distribute children's tattoos and take the pictures shown below.