Officially created just after WWII, this village in Will County sits next to Joliet on the banks of Hickory Creek. As a fast-growing suburb, New Lenox has a new feel to it, having almost doubled in population since the year 2000. The village’s administrative heart is the New Lenox Commons, an endearing green space close …
Home to just over 24,000, the city of Rolling Meadows is on the Northwest Suburbs’ affluent Golden Corridor. Rolling Meadows is a relatively new community, founded by the property developer Kimball Hill in the 1950s who built a neighborhood of ranch-style homes on land once intended as a golf course for neighboring Arlington Heights. You …
Just upriver from Rockford, the city of Loves Park was incorporated in 1947 and almost doubled in population during a surge of development in the 1990s and 2000s. As well as shopping centers, great public facilities and sprawling residential neighborhoods, Loves Park encompasses a big slice of the great outdoors and the massive Rock Cut …
In the early 20th century this city in the Chicago Southland was the foremost commercial and residential center in the south of Cook County. Nowadays, Blue Island, little more than 15 minutes from downtown Chicago, is a diverse and attractive community endowed with lots of beautiful architecture dating back a century or more. You can …
Set on the east bank of the Rock River, Machesney Park is a village of around 23,500 in the Rockford metro area. The village is relatively new, having been incorporated in 1981 and mostly developed in the 1980s and 1990s. For visitors there’s an enormous shopping center, a craft brewery, entertainment amenities and easy access …
Incorporated in 1895, Grayslake is an endearing village in Chicago’s northwest suburbs, 15 miles from the border with Wisconsin. Grayslake’s historic downtown and a number of local attractions are contained within the Village Center, with schools, a 40-acre park, an aquatic center and an intriguing local history museum. This was also one of the first …
An inner western suburb of Chicago, Villa Park is just under 20 miles west of the Chicago Loop. This village grew up at the start of the 20th century as a residential area serving the Ovaltine chocolate factory, which operated until 1988. The location was picked for its convenience, at the intersection of various railways …
Located in the Chicago Southland, this village was established as a fully planned community in the late 1940s, partly for returning WWII veterans. The Park Forest provided suburban comfort for the growing middle class, and you can get a taste of lifestyles from this period at the 1950s Park Forest House Museum, preserving a residence …
Founded in 1868 by the Civil War Colonel William T. Nichols, Maywood is a western suburb of Chicago, on the west bank of the Des Plaines River. The village has a large quantity of historic architecture, including 17 homes and properties on the National Register of Historic Places. At the turn of the 20th century, …
In the northwest of metro Chicago, this upscale city sits just east of the Des Plaines River. Something that distinguishes Park Ridge is its flourishing downtown, known here as “Uptown”, with restaurants, shops, idyllic parks and eye-catching architecture. The presence of the Des Plaines River gives Park Ridge a wonderful natural escape on its west …