Oak Lawn & Evergreen Park

Oak Lawn and Evergreen Park are the inner-ring southwest suburbs that border Chicago’s Beverly and Ashburn neighborhoods, with 95th Street as the shared main drag. Oak Lawn has Advocate Christ Medical Center, one of the busiest hospitals in the state, a Metra stop on the SouthWest Service and a large Irish-American and Middle Eastern community along 95th and Cicero; Evergreen Park is smaller, a village of brick ranches and bungalows with the Evergreen Plaza site and Little Company of Mary Hospital. Both are affordable, close to Midway Airport and full of city workers and their families.

Where it is

On the map, Oak Lawn runs from 87th Street south to 111th between Cicero Avenue and Harlem, with 95th Street as the commercial spine; Evergreen Park is east of it, between Oak Lawn and the city, from 87th to 103rd along Western and Kedzie. Metra’s SouthWest Service stops at Oak Lawn Patriot Station at 95th and Tulley, about 30 minutes to Union Station on weekdays. The Orange Line’s Midway terminal is a ten-minute drive north, Pace buses run 95th Street, and I-294 has an exit at 95th. The Loop is 30 to 45 minutes by car.

What to know if you’re moving here

Brick ranches and bungalows, low prices for the location, and a hospital that employs half the town.

• Housing is brick ranches and bungalows built mostly from the 1940s to the 1970s, with typical prices of roughly $200,000 to $450,000 as a broad editorial estimate as of September 2026.
• Parking is driveways and garages; street parking is easy.
• Public schools are Oak Lawn’s elementary districts feeding Oak Lawn Community High School District 229 and Evergreen Park District 124 feeding Evergreen Park Community High School District 231.
• Cook County property taxes apply and are moderate for the south suburbs.
• The SouthWest Service runs weekdays only, so weekend trips downtown mean the Orange Line at Midway or a drive.
• The drawback is 95th Street traffic and the hospital’s parking overflow into nearby blocks.

What to do if you’re visiting

95th Street is where the restaurants are, and a car is the way to get there.

• On Cicero Avenue, Huck Finn Restaurant is the family diner known for donuts and 24-hour breakfast.
• Farther west on the strip, Palermo’s 95th at 4849 W. 95th Street has served Italian dinners and thin-and-crispy pizza in a fresco-walled dining room since 1961, according to the restaurant.
• Over the line in Evergreen Park, Rosangela’s Pizza at 2807 W. 95th Street has made thin-crust pies from the same recipes since 1955.
• For coffee, Grove Coffee on 103rd Street is a locally owned shop with a kids’ corner and a signature Oak Lawn Latte, and Cork & Bean at 4931 W. 95th Street pours espresso, wine and cocktails with a pet-friendly patio and live music.
• Barbecue means Hog Wild Oak Lawn on 111th Street, the flagship of a small local group whose pork chops and house sauces have been featured on Check, Please!, WGN and ABC7.
• Young kids get the Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn at 5100 Museum Drive, a 12,000-square-foot space off 95th Street that opened there in 2009 with free parking on the garage roof.
• Evergreen Park’s Klein Park and the village’s Fourth of July fireworks at Duffy Park are the community events.