15 Best Things to Do in Glendale Heights (IL)
This village in Chicago’s western suburbs is relatively young, as little more than a collection of farms with a few subdivisions until the late 1950s. Glendale Heights was incorporated in …
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15 Best Things to Do in Addison (IL)
Home to more than 36,000, Addison is a village in DuPage County in metropolitan Chicago. Addison is crossed by two major arteries, the US 20 and I-290, putting it just …
15 Best Things to Do in Highland Park (IL)
Furnished with beautiful architecture and long known as a creative hotbed, the wealthy lakeside city of Highland Park sits on the North Shore in the Chicago suburbs. One of the …
15 Best Things to Do in Round Lake Beach (IL)
Up in Chicago’s northern suburbs, Round Lake Beach is roughly equidistant to Milwaukee and downtown Chicago. Something striking about this place is the quantity of water, with the immense Chain …
15 Best Things to Do in Oak Forest (IL)
In Chicago’s southwest suburbs, Oak Forest was inhabited by Native Americans in the 17th century, and has a local cemetery with burials going back to the 1830s. The city went …
15 Best Things to Do in Burbank (IL)
This city in southwest Chicagoland is right on Chicago’s city limits, sharing a boundary with the Ashburn neighborhood and sitting just south of Chicago Midway International. Burbank and the surrounding …
15 Best Things to Do in O’Fallon (IL)
The city of O’Fallon is in Southern Illinois’ Metro East region, a few short miles east from the Mississippi and St. Louis, Missouri. So while there’s much to enjoy close, …
15 Best Things to Do in McHenry (IL)
This riverside city is on the edge of Chicago’s northwestern suburbs, around ten miles south of the Wisconsin border. The Fox River flows down the east side of McHenry, and …
15 Best Things to Do in East St. Louis (IL)
In the first half of the 20th century, this city across the Mississippi from St. Louis was the fourth-largest in Illinois, with a population of more than 80,000. Established in …
15 Best Things to Do in Carbondale (IL)
The spot for this Southern Illinois college town was chosen in the 1850s, between two proposed railroad stations. Southern Illinois University (SIU) came a little later in 1870 and is …