Suburbs

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 …

I will start off by saying that Robbins is one hard up community and is perhaps the hardest up of any Chicago land suburb, and …

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 …

The suburb of North Chicago is a diverse community that is mainly noted for the Great Lakes Naval Training Station (pictured below) which is the …

This area was a part of the region that is now the suburb of River Forest in the first few decades of this area’s settlement.  …

Markham is definitely a suburb to fully understand before passing judgment mainly because this is a community that has some hardships and has a higher …

This is an area of Will County that definitely needs recognition on Chicagoganghistory because there has been a blending of unincorporated Lockport Township problems in …