Suburb count (Chicago, St. Charles, Franklin Park: estate, golf, park)

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

Most excellent! Thank you! Positive rep points for you and your efforts.


We seem to be hitting a wall at 147 burbs. Thats still insane though! I know there are more out there, have all the south burbs been mentioned?

147? We're not even close! Leave it to us suburbanites to fill the list further...

148. Skokie
149. Morton Grove
150. Niles
151. Schiller Park
152. Rosemont
153. Franklin Park
154. River Grove
155. Norridge
156. River Grove
157. Stone Park
158. Berkley
159. Brookfield
160. Bedford Park
161. Hickory Hills
162. Bridgeview
163. Chicago Ridge
164. Worth
165. Alsip
166. Southmoor
167. Merionette Park
168. Hazel Green
169. Worth
170. Midlothian
171. Crestwood
172. Blue Island
173. Dixmoor
174. Riverdale
175. Dolton
176. Burnham
177. Thornton
178. Hazel Crest
179. East Hazel Crest
180. Lynwood
181. Ford Heights
182. Sauk Village
183. Crete
184. South Chicago Heights
185. Chicago Heights
186. University Park
187. Monee
188. Richton Park
189. Olympia Fields
190. Matteson
191. Mokena
192. Arbury Hills
193. Oak Forest
194. New Lenox
195. Ingalls Park
196. Lockport
197. Preston Heights
198. Crest Hill
199. Rockdale
200. Shorewood
201. Channahon
202. Minnoka
203. Romeoville
204. Yorkville
205. Hanover Park
206. Inverness
207. Hoffman Estates
208. Wilmette
209. Deerfield
210. Morton Grove
211. Round Lake Park
212. Kildeer
213. North Barrington
214. Lake Barrington
215. Tower Lakes
216. Fox River Valley Gardens
217. Oakwood Hills
218. Prarie Grove
219. Lakemoor
220. Fox Lake
221. Round Lake Heights
222. Lake Villa
223. Round Lake Beach
224. Hainesville
225. Park City
226. Antioch
227. Beach Park
228. Zion
229. Wadsworth
230. Winthrop Harbor
231. Spring Grove
232. McHenry
233. Ringwood
234. Johnsburg

Now, free rep points to the internet geek who can state the population and crime rate for all of these towns. And of course a free shot to anyone who can recite all of these after 3 drinks at the next Board gathering

[sgresident]

good job, but how far out from chicago is it still a suburb..can we call dekalb, sycamore, cortland, sandwich, big rock, hinckley and paw paw suburbs? maple park, kaneville, campton hills, wasco, plato center, udina, burlington, virgil?

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by sgresident

good job, but how far out from chicago is it still a suburb..can we call dekalb, sycamore, cortland, sandwich, big rock, hinckley and paw paw suburbs? maple park, kaneville, campton hills, wasco, plato center, udina, burlington, virgil?

Personally, I think not. I think Geneva/Aurora/St. Charles is about as far west as the definition of "suburb" should extend, and even that's pushing it IMHO.

[via chicago]

Originally Posted by sgresident

good job, but how far out from chicago is it still a suburb..can we call dekalb, sycamore, cortland, sandwich, big rock, hinckley and paw paw suburbs? maple park, kaneville, campton hills, wasco, plato center, udina, burlington, virgil?

i would say no...i would categorize those as "exburbs" if anything. However, there's easily over 200 towns/cities which would fit the classification of suburb.

[gardener34]

Don't forget the little town of Berkeley - born there, family still lives there. (nice little town BTW) right next to Elmhurst.

Franklin Park, Schiller Park, Hickory hills, are some I am missing from the list... wanna verify this?

[Lookout Kid]

Hammond, IN
East Chicago

Heck, even Kenosha, WI is considered part of the metro area by the U.S. Census.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by via chicago

i would say no...i would categorize those as "exburbs" if anything. However, there's easily over 200 towns/cities which would fit the classification of suburb.

"exurbs" are suburbs.

The Census uses a mathmatic formula to determine the boundaries of a metro area. For instance, they found that Kenosha, WI has more than half of it's population working in the Chicago area whereas a much lower percentage go towards Milwaukee, so it is included in the Chicago-Gary-Kenosha CMSA (Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area). Here is some data on our metro area:

CHI CMSA: Chicago-Gary-Kenosha

As you see, this 9.1 million population figure (estimates are closer to 9.6 million today) includes people a far flung as Kenosha and DeKalb, but Rockford, Racine, and Milwaukee remain somewhat independent.

[Steve-o]

Lets draw the line at Rt. 47, sound fair? So would places like Yorkville count? We counted Sugar Grove.

Bru67, can you work your magic again and edit your post to include any we may have missed? Muchas gracias.

[sgresident]

yorkville would probably count. it is on both sides of rt 47!

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by gardener34

Don't forget the little town of Berkeley - born there, family still lives there. (nice little town BTW) right next to Elmhurst.

Franklin Park, Schiller Park, Hickory hills, are some I am missing from the list... wanna verify this?

Berkley's there. No. 158. Schiller Park is No. 151, Franklin Park is No. 153 and Hickory Hills is No. 161.

Bru and Steve-o << master of all things Suburban. Let's let some other young apprentices find the missing ones. As the self-proclaimed guru of Suburbia, I hereby declare the boundaries as St. Charles (West), the IL/Wisconsin border (North), Mokena (South) and the IL/Indiana border (East). I will never, in this lifetime, call Sycamore and Courtland suburbs, and I will never refer to anything in Indiana as a suburb either, unless Gary someday gentrifies!