Western Suburbs (Illinois) - territorial entity in Chicago Metro Area in Illinois, United States

The Western Suburbs make up a region of Chicagoland, in Illinois.

Cities

• Berwyn 📍
• Bolingbrook 📍
• Brookfield 📍
• Cicero 📍
• Downers Grove 📍
• Elmhurst 📍
• Franklin Park 📍
• Glen Ellyn 📍
• Hillside 📍
• Hinsdale 📍
• La Grange 📍
• Lisle 📍
• Lombard 📍
• Melrose Park 📍
• Naperville 📍
• Oak Park 📍
• West Chicago 📍
• Western Springs 📍
• Wheaton 📍
• Woodridge 📍

Other destinations

Understand

Get in

You won't be surprised to hear that Chicago is the major point of entry, with lots of buses and trains between the city and the suburbs.

By car

I-290

By bus

Pace buses.

By train

Metra commuter trains serve various parts of the Western Suburbs. The CTA 'L' also offers service to Oak Park from Chicago. Amtrak stops in La Grange and Naperville.

By plane

Plan to fly into either O'Hare International Airport or Midway Airport (both in Chicago).

Get around

See

The Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield.

Oak Park has lots of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings as well as an Ernest Hemingway museum.

There is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Elmhurst, along with the historical museum.

The Lizzadro Rock Museum is in Oak Brook.

Do

• Grace Lutheran Church and School, 7300 Division St, River Forest, 41.90108038384375°, -87.80770506058103°, +1 708 366-6900, gracechurch@graceriverforest.org. A church and elementary school located on the grounds of Concordia University, it is particularly notable for its monthly Bach Cantata Vespers, in which the church choir, orchestra and organist perform the sacred cantatas of the German baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach for Sunday evening prayers. The sacred works of other classical composers are also often performed alongside the Bach cantatas. free

Eat

Portillo's in Willowbrook, Elmhurst, Addison.

Drink

Stay safe

Go next

• Aurora – just to the west, at the edge of Chicagoland
• Elgin