Which Ex-burb will have the highest growth the next 10 years (Joliet: attorneys, homes)

[TennisDD]

Here are our candidates:
Elburn
Huntley
Waucaunda
Sugar Grove
Yorkville
Oswego
Plano
Woodstock
Lakewood
Crystal Lake
Plainfield
Shorewood
Frankfort

I would say so far the biggest has been Oswego, Frankfort Yorkville. All three have done an outstanding job of adding both residential and commercial.
Elburn has great promise with the train station, Shorewood/New Lenox with I-355. Sugar Grove has a lot of green south of Galena to the Water Park, so much room to grow. Plainfield has already exploded.
Please add more to this list.

[nerfer]

Crystal Lake will grow, but not as much as some, because it's already built out to a large degree. Percentage-wise, Volo will definitely explode, at least if the housing market stabilizes.

Apparently you like the idea of growth, but it definitely puts a lot of pressure on the roads and water infrastructure. (And schools, etc.) If they were smart about adding public transportation with the housing, and mixed housing of high-density and open space then I could be a little more optimistic, but mostly it's just building cookie-cutter single family homes on 1/4 acre lots or bigger, from fence-line to fence-line, and let others figure out how to transport the people, feed them, school them, etc. We can't continue to rely on cars and trucks for absolutely everything like we have in the past.

[lakecountylifer]

I'll add:

Antioch
Lindenhurst
Lake Villa
Gurnee
Grayslake
Mundelein

all of these towns have plenty of undeveloped land (farm land) within the boundaries or possibly in unincorporated areas that can be annexed

[TennisDD]

Nerfer you are correct, adding train lines and outside the box thinking in regards to growth is much needed. I agree the cookie cutter approach is just yuck.
Lakecounty thanks for adding them, The far north and northwest has the chance to really grow.

[NYrules]

You need to add in New Lenox and Lockport. Both towns are going to boom the same way Orland Park did in the 1970s and 80s. A "mega" mall more than twice the size of Orland Square mall and nearly twice the size of Woodfield Mall is expected to be built right off I-80 and Rte 30. Plans are currently underway and roads are being upgraded for the addition of this to their town their town in the next 10 years. This mall will bring with it, not only tons of traffic and new people to the town, but also jobs, and then little out buildings to pop up around it, such as dr. offices, attorneys, car dealers, and restaurants that will follow, and before you know it, you have 159th and La Grange Road.

[Lookout Kid]

I think it all depends on the future of oil supplies. If demand starts to outpace supply, the ex-urbs will be in trouble even if everyone drives fuel-efficient vehicles. But if we find a way to continue our happy motoring with a new energy supply, the ex-urbs will continue to boom.

[Steve-o]

Elburn, Sugar Grove and Yorkville would be my guesses.

[sgresident]

Since I am not familiar with suburbs that are south and north, i will agree with steve-o on our western burbs!

[IlWesleyanGuy]

Originally Posted by NYrules

You need to add in New Lenox and Lockport. Both towns are going to boom the same way Orland Park did in the 1970s and 80s. A "mega" mall more than twice the size of Orland Square mall and nearly twice the size of Woodfield Mall is expected to be built right off I-80 and Rte 30. Plans are currently underway and roads are being upgraded for the addition of this to their town their town in the next 10 years. This mall will bring with it, not only tons of traffic and new people to the town, but also jobs, and then little out buildings to pop up around it, such as dr. offices, attorneys, car dealers, and restaurants that will follow, and before you know it, you have 159th and La Grange Road.

I haven't heard of this mall. I know that the town of New Lenox unveiled plans for two outdoor malls along the I-355 extension. It seems that plans fell through for one of the malls. Another one that is projected to be over 1 million square feet is still on the table. Together the two malls were expected to have over 2 million square feet of restaurants and retail, which would have been more than Orland Square. The other proposed mall is in Joliet where I-80 and I-55 cross. At 1.7 million square feet, it would also be bigger than Orland Square.

My picks for largest growth in the next 10 years would be Yorkville and Oswego. Plainfield may grow a lot also. I know that it has already exploded but farmland in Kendall County is calling Plainfield's name.

[sgresident]

saw a newpaper article today that states the population in oswego is now at 29,000!