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Evanston, IL
Evanston sits directly north of Chicago along Lake Michigan and is home to Northwestern University, whose lakefront campus and roughly 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students give the city a genuine college-town energy layered on top of its identity as a Chicago suburb — a combination that's produced a denser concentration of bookstores, theaters, and independent restaurants than most comparably sized suburbs. The city was also the founding headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Frances Willard House, preserved as a museum, commemorates Willard's leadership of the organization and its significant role in both the temperance and women's suffrage movements of the late 19th century — a genuine piece of national reform-movement history tied directly to the city. Evanston's public beaches along Lake Michigan give residents direct lakefront access rarely available in suburbs further from the shoreline, and both the CTA's Purple Line elevated train and Metra's Union Pacific North Line serve the city, putting downtown Chicago within roughly 25 to 35 minutes depending on the service and specific stop. In 2019, Evanston became one of the first cities in the United States to approve a reparations program funded specifically for Black residents affected by historical housing discrimination, a policy that drew national media attention and positioned the city as an early test case for how American municipalities might address the lasting effects of redlining and discriminatory zoning.
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Naperville, IL
Naperville, spanning parts of DuPage and Will Counties roughly 30 miles west of downtown Chicago, has grown from a small early-19th-century settlement into one of the largest suburbs in the entire Chicago metropolitan area, with a population well over 140,000 — larger than many standalone American cities, let alone typical commuter suburbs. The Naperville Riverwalk, a landscaped pedestrian path built along the DuPage River beginning in the 1980s as part of the city's sesquicentennial celebration, transformed a formerly industrial stretch of riverfront into one of the most-used public gathering spaces in the western suburbs, hosting festivals, farmers markets, and a popular annual Ribfest event. Naperville's public school districts have consistently ranked among the strongest in Illinois, and the city has repeatedly landed on national "best places to live" rankings from outlets like Money magazine over the past several decades, a track record that's helped sustain steady population and housing-value growth even as some other Chicago-area suburbs have seen slower growth. Metra's BNSF Line connects Naperville to Chicago's Union Station in roughly 35 to 45 minutes, and the city's combination of a large, well-resourced tax base, a genuinely landscaped downtown riverfront, and consistently top-ranked schools has made it one of the most nationally recognized suburb names in the entire Midwest.
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