Chicago suburbs
Beyond the Loop
The Chicago suburbs are the municipalities surrounding Chicago, forming a sprawling metropolitan area across northeastern Illinois and into Indiana and Wisconsin.
The term evokes a particular American landscape—subdivisions, strip malls, commuter rail lines, and the cultural identity of growing up neither urban nor rural: She's from the Chicago suburbs, somewhere out past O'Hare.
- commuter railSuburb-to-downtown train service
- SchaumburgChicago-area incorporated village
- EvanstonChicago suburb with university
- Oak ParkVillage west of Chicago
- AuroraName from Latin dawn
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