Sauganash, Forest Glen

Comprising the neighborhoods of Sauganash and Edgebrook, the community of Forest Glen is like a little slice of the suburbs in Chicago. Residents of its large single-family homes enjoy convenient access rail (Metra) and expressway (Edens, I-94) access to downtown). Forest Glen is one of Chicago’s oldest communities, and the Sauganash neighborhood takes its name from a 19th century Potawatomi Indian leader whose English-given name, Billy Caldwell, is featured on several area landmarks.

Forest Glen/Sauganash: Restaurants, Golf Courses and One Amazing Church

Written by Alan Solomon, with research assistance from the Chicago Neighborhood Tourism Project.

Though there is no more suburban-feeling community in all Chicago than overwhelmingly residential Forest Glen -- and the Sauganash and Edgebrook neighborhoods within it -- that doesn't mean it's of interest solely to realtors.

There are a few restaurants of note here, two public golf courses, one historic district . . . and one pretty amazing church.

Chicago has three Roman Catholic basilicas. Our Lady of Sorrows (1902) is in the Garfield Park neighborhood on the city's West Side. St. Hyacinth (1921) is in the Northwest Side Avondale neighborhood. Those two, each marvelous in its way, reflect in their ornate interiors the European-immigrant sensibilities of the parishes that built them (Italian and Irish in the first basilica, Polish in the second).

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