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Hinsdale, IL
Hinsdale sits in DuPage County roughly 17 miles west of downtown Chicago, and its downtown business district and residential streets retain a substantial stock of large late-19th and early-20th-century homes, a legacy of the village's early development as a retreat for wealthy Chicago business families following the city's rapid post-Great Fire growth in the 1870s and '80s. The village's historic train station, built in 1874 and still in active use, anchors a walkable downtown of independent shops and restaurants that's stayed largely free of the big-box and chain-heavy commercial development found in some larger neighboring suburbs. Metra's BNSF Line connects Hinsdale to Chicago's Union Station in roughly 30 minutes, a genuinely fast commute for a suburb of Hinsdale's size and one that's helped sustain consistently high demand for the village's larger, older housing stock even as new construction has driven prices further upward in recent years. Hinsdale Central High School has built a strong reputation for both academics and athletics within Illinois, and that reputation, combined with the village's historic housing stock and fast direct rail commute, has kept Hinsdale one of the more consistently expensive and sought-after western suburbs in the entire Chicago metropolitan area.
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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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