Orland Park & Tinley Park

Orland Park and Tinley Park are the retail and entertainment hubs of the southwest suburbs, two large villages along the Rock Island and SouthWest Service Metra lines about 25 miles from the Loop. Orland Park has Orland Square mall and the LaGrange Road strip of big-box stores and chain restaurants that draws shoppers from across the south suburbs; Tinley Park has the Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, one of the region’s largest outdoor concert venues, and a downtown on Oak Park Avenue around its Metra station. Both are postwar suburbs of ranches, colonials and townhomes with big Irish and Polish populations.

Where it is

On the map, Orland Park sits along LaGrange Road (US 45) between 131st and 179th streets, with the mall at 151st; Tinley Park is east of it along Oak Park Avenue and Harlem Avenue, from 159th south to I-80. Metra’s SouthWest Service stops at Orland Park’s 143rd, 153rd and 179th street stations, and the Rock Island line stops at Tinley Park and 80th Avenue, about 40 to 50 minutes to LaSalle or Union Station. I-80 runs along the south edge with exits at LaGrange Road and Harlem, and I-355 has an exit at 159th.

What to know if you’re moving here

These are practical south suburbs with big houses, big parking lots and two train lines.

• Housing is ranches, colonials and townhomes built from the 1960s on, with typical prices of roughly $250,000 to $700,000 as a broad editorial estimate as of September 2026.
• Parking is driveways and garages, and the Metra lots are large.
• Public schools are Orland School District 135 and Tinley Park’s Kirby District 140, feeding Consolidated High School District 230 (Sandburg, Andrew) and Bremen District 228 (Tinley Park High).
• Cook County property taxes apply, and both villages sit in the part of the county where assessments have climbed sharply in recent cycles.
• Two Metra lines and I-80 give commuters options, though the SouthWest Service runs only on weekdays.
• The drawback is LaGrange Road traffic and a layout where almost nothing is walkable except Tinley Park’s small downtown.

What to do if you’re visiting

The mall and the amphitheater are the destinations, but downtown Tinley Park on Oak Park Avenue is the part you can walk, and everything else needs a car.

• Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre on Ridgeland Avenue in Tinley Park hosts the summer’s biggest touring concerts.
• In downtown Tinley Park, Banging Gavel Brews pours house-brewed lagers, saisons and porters inside the restored 19th-century Vogt House at 17400 Oak Park Avenue, a building that won a 2025 Landmarks Illinois Driehaus Preservation Award for adaptive reuse.
• A block north, Ed & Joe’s Restaurant & Pizzeria at 17332 S. Oak Park Avenue does thin-crust and regular-crust pizza, antipasto salad and turtle cheesecake, with live acoustic music two nights a week.
• For dessert, The Magical Plush Horse Ice Cream Shoppe at 7903 W. 171st Street has made ice cream in house since 2012 and runs more than 70 flavors through the year.
• At the south end of Oak Park Avenue, Odyssey Fun World has go-karts, laser tag, batting cages and mini golf across a 45,000-square-foot building and an 11-acre outdoor park with a Ferris wheel.
• In Orland Park, Grapevine Foods on John Humphrey Drive has cooked Middle Eastern carryout, from fatayer to kabobs, since 2004, and Fox’s Orland Park at 143rd Street and Ravinia Avenue has been the village’s pizza and Irish pub since 1973.
• The Orland Grassland preserve on LaGrange Road has trails through 960 acres of restored prairie.