Clarendon Hills is a compact DuPage County village that carries a distinctive sense of place, set apart from neighboring suburbs by its deliberate, park-like design. Unlike the grid-based layouts common throughout the western Chicago suburbs, Clarendon Hills was built to echo the vision of Riverside, the planned community shaped by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 1800s. Its long, winding residential streets follow the natural contours of the land, giving the village a character that feels considered and unhurried rather than simply subdivided.
At roughly two square miles, the village is small but well-rounded. A walkable commercial core anchors the center near Prospect Avenue and Burlington Avenue, while Ogden Avenue to the north and 55th Street to the south offer additional dining and retail options.
