About BOLINGBROOK, IL
There are many fine suburbs ringing the great city of Chicago. Bolingbrook is about 30 miles southwest of the city's lakeshore downtown. One of Bolingbrook's biggest advantages is that it is at a transportation hub, where two major highways meet: I-55 (the Stevenson Expressway) and I-355 (the North-South Tollway). They make Bolingbrook one of the most accessible suburbs to all the rest of Chicagoland.
Bolingbrook is a young, vibrant community of 64,000, with a brief history dating back to only 1965. Our population is noted for its diversity, and as one of the youngest average populations in the state. Informally, it's even been called the "Tee-ball capital" because of the high number of youngsters that participate in that sport every summer. Not to mention Little League, basketball, flag and tackle football, soccer, swimming and ice hockey leagues. We are one of the newest and most aggressive communities in terms of our efforts to promote industrial and commercial growth, and upgrade the housing within the Village.
Where once, Villagers had to go out of town even to get groceries, much less do their other shopping, Bolingbrook is now becoming a shopping mecca. Now out-of-towners come here, attracted by our ever-growing number of new stores and shopping centers. Meijer, the well-known Michigan-based giant discounter, picked Bolingbrook, out of all of the Chicagoland suburbs, for its very first Chicagoland store. Plans are growing for a major regional mall on Bolingbrook's eastside near the I-355 tollway. It would be the first new mall to be built in Chicagoland in 20 years!
Learn more about this city.
City of Bolingbrook, IL official site
City of Bolingbrook, IL Chamber of Commerce
City of Bolingbrook, IL newspaper
County of Bolingbrook, IL official site
State of Illinois official site