New homes in Orland Park tend to have at least 4 bedrooms and sell for $500,000 and up. Incorporated in 1892, Orland Park maintained its small town reality well into the 1960s when the population was still under 3,000.
In the second half of the century, however, this village 22 miles southwest of the Loop awoke from a decades-long slumber and began welcoming residential subdivisions, retail strips, and playgrounds for young and old.
Now claiming nearly 60,000 residents, Orland Park is the Southland’s premier retail center and one of its most popular destinations for both dining and shopping, a reputation buoyed by both Orland Square Mall and its 1.2 million square feet of retail space as well as Orland Park Crossings’ upscale environment.
Orland Park has also found national recognition: in 2006, Money Magazine named Orland Park among America’s “Top 50 Places to Live,” praising the community’s arts, leisure, and educational opportunities.
Those recreational opportunities arrive from over 20 area golf courses as well as the 90,000 square-foot Orland Park Sportsplex which includes such features as a climbing wall, aerobics studio, three gymnasiums, and indoor soccer field.
Orland Park housing options range from condominiums and townhomes to single-family homes in golf course communities. Most three-bedroom, one-bath starter homes in Orland Park will run in the low to mid-$200,000 range while 3,400-square foot, four-bedroom, three-bath homes in newer subdivisions top $500,000.
“One of the draws of Orland Park is that it’s an established community that offers a wide variety of homeownership stock,” said Linda Dore, a veteran Realtor based at Re/Max Team 2000’s Orland Park office. “There is new housing, older housing for those who wish to build sweat equity, and rehabbed housing. People can live, work, and invest all in Orland Park.”
The village also has one of the area’s most formidable and well-rounded high schools in the 3,800-student Sandburg High. In addition to the ten state championships Eagle athletic teams have delivered since 1999, Sandburg also hosts a state champion debate program and theater. Academically, Sandburg High graduates upwards of 98 percent of its senior class and claims an average ACT score of 22.3.
Village of Orland Park
14700 Ravinia Ave.
708-403-6100
Official Web site: www.orland-park.il.us
Local newspaper: The Star: Orland Park, Orland Hills
Natural gas: NICOR, 888-642-6748
Electricity: ComEd, 800-334-7661
Phone: AT&T, 888-824-8314
Cable: Comcast, 866-594-1234
Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce
www.orlandparkchamber.org
708-349-2972
Population: 51,077
Median household income: $67,574
Median house price: $208,300
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