South Holland, village in northeastern Illinois, in Cook County. A residential community near Chicago, it was formerly an agricultural center noted for onions. A junior college is here. Settled by Dutch farmers in the 1840s and incorporated in 1894, the community is probably named for Zuid-Holland (South Holland) Province in the Netherlands. Population 24,977 (1980); 22,105 (1990); 22,147 (2000).
