Suburbs

In my earlier years growing up in the 1980s and 90s up until I was a young man in early 2000s, I used to always …

Hoffman Estates…the very name sounds luxurious and as a kid growing up in the Chicago area suburbs, I always thought this northwest suburb was upper …

Hanover Park is another suburb in the northwest Cook County area often mistaken as a rough town and bad place to live and raise children. …

Ah yes, the suburb of Glendale Heights, one of the nicer Chicagoland suburbs. A great place to raise a family and a safe community. By …

Franklin Park is one of a cluster of Cook County/Du Page County area suburbs connected with O-Hare Airport in the western suburbs. Franklin Park has …

Within the northwest suburban Cook County area suburbs, I found that Des Plaines has one of the most storied and oldest Chicago gang settlements. I …

Arlington Heights is by no means a bad neighborhood. There are parts of the community that have been troubled for decades but even those spots …

After nearly a decade of Chicagoganghistory.com I have finally decided to step outside of the Chicago metro area and do a piece on a more …

The land that is now the suburb of Dixmoor was very barren while most of Cook county was developed.  The area first was discovered in …

The reason I am covering the suburb of Melrose Park is only based upon some the oldest gang settlement in Chicagoland history. From the Chicago …