Bolingbrook

Address: 400 N Schmidt Rd, Suite #205, Bolingbrook, IL 60440

Local: 630-425-6665

Will and DuPage Counties, 26 miles SW of the Loop. Few communities demonstrate the interstate highway system's profound influence on suburban development as well as Bolingbrook. The opening of Interstate 55 in the early 1960s made the farm fields of northern Will County more accessible to Chicago, attracting developers and residents. Incorporated in 1965, Bolingbrook grew from thinly settled farmland to the second-largest community in Will County (behind Joliet ) in less than 10 years.                 (Chicago History Museum)