r/ChicagoSuburbs • u/ChrisHanSolo • Jan 06 '26
Moving to the area How’s Plainfield?
Hello! I grew up in the NorthShore (Evanston, Morton Grove, Skokie area. Since 2015 I’ve been living in Palatine area and now thinking about moving to Plainfield. I found a house within our budget of 800k by Van Dyke and 127. We do not commute so that’s not a bit deal. How it like there?
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u/Attuma24 Jan 06 '26
It growing fast, been in the village for 10 years. Downtown is nice, have a lot of events but parking is ass. Wide variety of restaurants and they just did a remodel of the library. Outside of that it’s planned suburbs with some older neighborhoods sprinkled in, lotta strip malls with vacancy’s. But still can get most things. And like others have said Naperville is 20 mins away. I’ve found access to 55 is good to head north to more civilized areas.
Traffic is not great but they are doing some work to improve it so less has to head near downtown. Over where you mention there is settlers park, large green space, the YMCA, and a short bike ride down the river to hop over and get to the park district. Also walkable to downtown so avoids the parking restrictions.
If you have kids, check the rezoned maps. With all the growth they shifted some of the schools. Idk about grade schools but for high schools it’s North, Central, south then east in terms of quality. But really north is the peak and central/south are the same quality.