Bolingbrook Apartments and Rentals

Home to more than 70,000 people, the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Ill., is a fantastic choice for diversity-loving, amenity-seeking suburbanites. Bordering popular suburbs like Naperville, Romeoville and Plainfield, this suburb offers access to many regional highways and shopping centers. Those searching for Bolingbrook apartments for rent will be happy with the area's many amenities and desirable attributes.

There are many benefits to living in such an affordable yet central location: Bolingbrook was listed as the No. 43 Best Place to Live by CNN/Money Magazine in 2012. Families enjoy Bolingbrook's many amenities, including its recreational opportunities and shopping centers.

Bolingbrook is a fairly young village in that it got its start during the post-World War II era. In the 1960s, the village's first builder laid out the first housing tract just north of U.S. Route 66. The area's first few families were reportedly sold on the area by an ad campaign that featured a handsome English butler named Mr. Dover. As families moved out of Chicago proper, villages and cities like Bolingbrook began to bloom. It was incorporated as a village in 1965.

Bolingbrook is one of those villages that is considered to be a great deal: While the village's cost of living index comes in at 102.1, neighboring Naperville's cost of living index is about 2 percent higher at 104.3. However, those searching for Bolingbrook rentals should factor commuting costs into their monthly budgets; the city loses about 17 percent of its population on workdays due to commuting, and the mean travel time to work is approximately 30 minutes.

Bolingbrook's small-scale theater company, Theatre-on-the-Hill, offers a taste of culture and heaps of entertainment. This community of actors has performed such scripts as End Days, Amadeus, Tommy, The Wizard of Oz and Oklahoma.

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