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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A county seat and city of around 24,000, Freeport is couched in the rolling Northwest Illinois countryside. The population grew suddenly from the 1850s when Freeport became a base for …
In the Metro-East area, 12 miles from St. Louis, Collinsville sits atop the bluffs over the American Bottom, the floodplain of the Mississippi. The city’s historic core can be seen …
A western suburb of Chicago, Melrose Park is around ten miles west of The Loop, and you can get to Chicago OTC via the Metra in about half an hour. …
This community of 26,000 people in Chicago’s northwest suburbs is a retail hub for the area, home to Westfield’s Hawthorn Mall and a clutch of nearby shopping centers. Vernon Hills …
This village in the Northwestern Suburbs is a 25-minute Metra ride from Chicago Union Station. Elmwood Park got its name from a park with old-growth elm trees visited by Chicagoans …