This lively college town shares a sprawling University of Illinois campus with its sister city, Urbana. Champaign and Urbana are contiguous, and together offer a world of history, culture, entertainment and …
On the leafy North Shore, Evanston is a city famed for its diversity and progressive politics. This is reflected in many aspects of local life, and for visitors it means …
This northwest suburb of Chicago is a family-oriented kind of place with a bustling events calendar and masses of public green space. Big swathes of the Village of Palatine are …
Thirty miles southwest of Chicago, Bolingbrook is a village that took shape in the 1960s and has grown steadily since then to a population of 75,000. Bolingbrook stands out for …
Sitting 25 miles southwest of Chicago, the village of Orland Park is a wealthy suburb renowned for its upscale restaurants and shopping opportunities. At the heart of this is the …
The state capital of Illinois since 1839, Springfield is the second-largest city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. It’s impossible to talk about this city without bringing up Abraham Lincoln, the …
This northwest suburb of Chicago has the distinction of being the largest community in the United States to be incorporated as a village. Some 75,000 people live in this mostly …
A northwestern suburb of Chicago, Des Plaines sits directly north of O’Hare International Airport and west of the namesake river. Being close to the airport puts Des Plaines near the …
In the Chicago Southland, Tinley Park is a suburb that almost doubled in population between the 1980s and 2020. This village has long been considered one of the best places …
Often rated as one of the most livable places in the United States, Schaumburg is a northwestern suburb of Chicago, 30 miles outside the city. Administratively, this is still a village, …