'West Suburban Living' Spotlights La Grange in Best of the West Issue

You and I know La Grange is an awesome place to live. Now everyone else in the area does too, thanks to a seven-page feature in the March/April issue of West Suburban Living.

The magazine spotlights La Grange in its annual “Best of the West” issue, which praises the village for the way its sophisticated downtown melds with a “front-porch, we’ve-got-your-back neighborliness.” 

Restaurants including Prasino and Palmer Place, as well as Tate’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Shop, all get a shout out, as do the Clipper Ship Gallery, Horton’s Home Lighting and newcomer Painted Rubbish.

And of course, no feature about La Grange would be complete without mention of the Pet Parade, which celebrates its 67th year in June.

“We may have moved away to other communities for a job or after college,” village president candidate Tom Livingston told the magazine, “but when it came time to pick a community that has many aspects that parents are looking for—and that people with growing families are looking for—La Grange really has everything going on.”

West Suburban highlighted several local establishments in its superlative categories, as voted by readers:

BEST OUTDOOR DINING

• Palmer Place: 2nd Place

BEST ITALIAN

• Francesca’s, multiple locations including La Grange: 1st Place 

BEST ICE CREAM OR DESSERT

• Tate’s Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Shop: 3rd Place

BEST BARBECUE

• Q BBQ: Other Favorite

BEST PLACE FOR BREAKFAST

• Blueberry Hill: Other Favorite

BEST PIZZA

• Aurelio’s, multiple locations including La Grange: 2nd Place

BEST BURGER

• Back Alley Burger: Other Favorite

BEST PLACE FOR VEGETARIAN

• Prasino

BEST PLACE FOR SINGLES

• Palmer Place: 2nd Place

BEST PLACE TO BUY ANTIQUES

• Jackson Square Mall

BEST RESALE/CONSIGNMENT STORE

• Jackson Square Mall: Other Favorite 

BEST PET STORE/BOUTIQUE

• The Barker Shop: 3rd Place 

FAVORITE SPORTS BAR OR PLACE TO WATCH SPORTS

• Palmer Place: Other Favorite

TOWN YOU’D WANT TO LIVE IN (OTHER THAN YOUR OWN)

• La Grange: Other Favorite

BEST WEBSITE

• Patch, multiple towns (Editor: Woo hoo!)

The issue is not yet available online, but it’s on newsstands now.

Why do you like living in La Grange? Tell us in the comments.

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