The ghost towns of suburban Chicago aren’t identifiable by tumbleweeds or ramshackle clapboard storefronts, but their names maintain a haunting presence on modern maps.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Structures and residents in Alpine Height in an undated photo provided by the village of Orland Park. The downtown area burned down in 1912 and the town never recovered.
“The building of the railroad was the demise of the Bachelor’s Grove settlement,” Bettenhausen said. “People gravitated to the new mode of transportation.” “He had a farm implement store on North Street and later sold automobiles,” Bettenhausen said. “He was one of the early movers and shakers of Tinley Park.”A barn at Forest Preserves of Cook County's Camp Sullivan at 147th Street and Oak Park Avenue in 2003. It is purported to be the only remaining structure from the former town of Goeselville, though Tinley Park historian Brad Bettenhausen said it doesn't match one in a photo of the Goesel farm from the 1880s.
Of course, there are no Alps in Orland Township, and there’s not really any heights, either. Mike Duffy, a researcher with the Orland Park History Museum, said the town’s name likely reflected a contemporary fascination with mountain climbing and exploration. Perhaps it was meant to appeal especially to World’s Fair visitors.“There’s not a soul alive who can tell you why we’re called Orland,” Duffy said. “We have theories, but no evidence about why that name was chosen.
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