Welcome to Gladstone Park: Hidden Gem of Northwest Chicago, a website celebrating life in an extraordinary community in Chicago that only people from Gladstone Park know exists. Located in the most livable and culturally-rich of large American cities, its safe and vibrant one square mile neighborhood borders on Forest Preserves, overlooks a golf course, and feels like the kind of small town you wish you grew up in.
Hundreds of photographs focus on Gladstone Park’s vintage architecture and its stores, restaurants, churches, schools, and other special parts of the community. Explore who we are, how we got here, how we grew, and how we live, work, and play. Enjoy yourself virtually, pay us a real visit, and maybe you, too, won’t want to leave.
This section explores how Gladstone Park’s development made it into the neighborhood it is today.
This section showcases photos of Gladstone Park’s vintage residential housing styles.
This section features photos of the infrastructure that supports the Gladstone Park community.
This section explores how Gladstone Park is seeking to establish its unique identity amid zoning and development challenges through activism and the possibility of historic preservation.
