Welcome to Chicagoland Area!

Welcome to the Chicagoland Area

As Frank Sinatra crooned “My kind of town, Chicago is”, the Northwest suburban Chicagoland Area is where I’ve spent my life and raised my family. Where is Chicagoland?  You can’t find it on any one map but it is common knowledge.

 Chicagoland is the casual or informal name for the Chicago Metropolitan area.  

 I prefer the definition of Chicagoland from the Department of Illinois Tourism literature which uses the term Chicagoland for suburbs in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Kane and Will counties, treating the City separately.  

Chicagoland is home to many corporate headquarters including McDonald’s, Motorola, Discover Financial Services and United Airlines as well as the CME group, the futures exchange group merged from the Chicago Board of Trades and the Chicago Mercantile Group. Other important companies are Aon Corporation, Bally total Fitness and the Encyclopedia Britannica, Tootsie Roll Industries, Quaker Oats Company, True Value, TransUnion, Tribune Company and Wilson Sporting Goods. Not to forget, ACNielsen, Allstate, Baxter International and Brunswick. We are home to DeVry University, Culligan Water systems, Crate and Barrel as well as CDW. The list goes on and on.

Our land is part of the Chicago Plain, and therefore, it’s flat with few bumps in the road, perfect for our beginning farmers, and later our railroad construction built to encourage commerce. What surprises most visitors traveling from Chicago is that our communities blend, but all have a different flavor or personality. Please view my individual descriptions of our fair suburban villages and cities on the Northwest side.
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