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 1958 and today is a modern, residential community, in a townscape scattered with ranch-style homes, sprawling neighborhood parks and a couple of shopping centers. Like …
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 20 minutes from the Chicago loop. There’s never a shortage of things for families to do in Addison, with an indoor amusement center, the largest …
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 many great things about Highland Park is just how accessible the Lake Michigan shore is here, with a series of lakefront parks and a Lake …
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 O’ Lakes waterway a few minutes west and innumerable smaller lakes and ponds strewn across the area. The town’s eponymous lake has an enticing sandy …
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 through sudden development in the 1960s, and since that time has had a strong Irish influence, visible at the Chicago Gaelic Park cultural center and …
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 suburbs have been associated with immigration from Eastern Europe, and that heritage is still obvious at Polish restaurants and a Lithuanian cultural museum. There are …
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, from a thriving downtown area, to charming landmarks, superb parks and a sprawling system of bicycle trails, you’re never far from the blockbuster sights and …
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 can be admired at riverside parks, the new Riverwalk promenade and the Moraine Hills State Park where you can watch water traffic passing through the …
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 1861, East St. Louis adopted the nickname, City of Champions, for the many sports stars who were born or grew up here in the late …
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 key to Carbondale’s identity. The campus is on the southern edge of downtown and brings culture, museums, sports action and architectural splendor. The architect and …