In the Northwest Suburbs, Elk Grove Village is a community of 35,000 along the prosperous Golden Corridor where several Fortune 500 companies are headquartered. The name of the village comes …
The seat of Vermilion County, next to the Illinois–Indiana state line, is a city that was powered by the coal industry for a century until WWII. In the mid-19th century …
Dubbed the “Pride of the Fox”, St. Charles is a city on the Fox River, 35 miles west of downtown Chicago. After the Chicago Great Western Railway arrived in the …
This village in the western Chicago suburbs sprouted up in the 1960s and grew quickly through the 70s and 80s. The name, Woodridge, comes from a wooded ridge on the …
The history of this small town in west central Illinois is completely intertwined with the railroads. In the last decades of the 19th century Galesburg became a junction for the …
This community in Chicago’s northern suburbs has changed its name a few times since the first European inhabitants arrived in the early 19th century. The current name comes from the …
This village on the affluent North Shore grew up as a stopover on the way from Chicago to Milwaukee. In the early 20th century Northbrook, then Shermerville, was known for …
Just west of Waukegan on the North Shore, Gurnee is well known across Chicagoland for its outstanding visitor attractions. The biggest of these is Six Flags Great America, one of …
The second most populous city in Lake County is right on the lakeshore, south of Waukegan, and is known for its military heritage. North Chicago is home to the sprawling …
The fast-growing village of Oswego, about 45 miles west of downtown Chicago, has doubled in size since 2000. Oswego is on the idyllic banks of the Fox River, and has …