Bolingbrook & Romeoville

Bolingbrook and Romeoville are the I-55 corridor suburbs southwest of Naperville, built almost entirely since the 1960s and still growing on the strength of logistics parks along the interstate and the Canal. Bolingbrook is the larger, with about 75,000 people, the Promenade Bolingbrook open-air mall, a golf club and subdivisions that stretch from Route 53 to Naperville’s edge; Romeoville, to the south, has Lewis University, a historic downtown fragment along the old canal and some of the biggest warehouses in the region. Both are affordable, diverse and car-first, with Will County taxes.

Where it is

On the map, Bolingbrook sits along I-55 between Woodridge and Plainfield, from Boughton Road north to I-355, with the Promenade at I-55 and Boughton; Romeoville is south of it along Route 53 and Weber Road, down to the Des Plaines River and the Lockport line. Metra’s Heritage Corridor stops at Romeoville on the south end, with limited rush-hour service to Union Station; most commuters drive I-55 or use Pace buses to the Naperville or Lisle BNSF stops. I-55’s Weber Road, Route 53 and Boughton Road exits serve the area. The Loop is 40 minutes to over an hour by car.

What to know if you’re moving here

These towns are about house size per dollar, new construction and a highway commute.

• Housing is subdivisions built from the 1960s on, with townhomes and newer single-family developments, and typical prices of roughly $250,000 to $550,000 as a broad editorial estimate as of September 2026.
• Parking is driveways and garages everywhere.
• Public schools are Valley View Community Unit School District 365U, which serves both towns with Bolingbrook and Romeoville high schools, plus Plainfield District 202 for parts of Bolingbrook.
• Will County property taxes apply and run lower than DuPage, which is part of the appeal.
• Metra service is thin, so a car and I-55 are the commute for most households.
• The drawback is truck traffic from the warehouses and a landscape of arterials with almost no walkable center.

What to do if you’re visiting

Everything is a drive, and most visits are for the mall, a chicken dinner on old Route 66 or a Lewis University event.

• Fried chicken is the reason most people know Romeoville: White Fence Farm on Joliet Road has been run by the Hastert family since 1954, seats more than 1,000 and keeps alpacas and antique cars on the grounds.
• Beside the runway at Clow International Airport, the Illinois Aviation Museum displays 17 aircraft, including a Navy A-4 Skyhawk and a Huey gunship, with free admission on weekends.
• Eating near the Promenade splits between Bullvino’s Churrascaria, the Brazilian steakhouse that opened at 639 E. Boughton Road in July 2026, and Tailgaters Sports Bar & Grill on West Boughton, with trivia on Thursdays and line dancing on first Fridays.
• On the Plainfield line, Sable Creek Winery at 1876 Airport Road pours 15 to 20 house wines with charcuterie boards and throws a grape-stomp harvest party each fall.
• On Arbor Drive in Romeoville, G&W Electric opened its new manufacturing plant in September 2026 and is one of the town’s largest employers.
• The Isle a la Cache Museum on Romeo Road tells the French fur trade story on an island in the Des Plaines River, and the Centennial Trail and I&M Canal Trail run along the river on Romeoville’s east side.