Suburbs

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 …

Rolling Meadows has some of the oldest, if not THE oldest Chicago gang settlement in the northwest Cook County suburbs.  Rolling Meadows had previously struggled …

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 …

Bellwood During most of the 19th century, Bellwood was exclusively farmland.  It took until the early 1890s for an actual town to be built as …

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 …

This area was first settled by the white man in the year 1725 when French fur traders established the Little Fort trading post.  For the …

This suburb is one of the newer suburbs in Chicago land history as it sat as a barren Lake County land all throughout the 19th …

I will start off by saying that Villa Park is in no way a dangerous suburb and never has been that bad; however, in the …

I debated hard about doing a page for Romeoville because first of all, it is not a high crime community, it is a rather safe …