Village of Riverside

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The Village of Riverside is a historic suburban community near Chicago, Illinois, renowned as one of the first planned garden suburbs designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf garden suburb
municipality
suburb
village
adjacentTo Berwyn, Illinois
Brookfield, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois
Lyons, Illinois
North Riverside, Illinois
country United States
county Cook County
designedBy Calvert Vaux
Frederick Law Olmsted
designType garden suburb
planned community
governingBody Village of Riverside Board of Trustees
governmentType village government
hasFeature communal green spaces
generous setbacks
large public parks
naturalistic landscape design
winding roads
hasHeritageDesignation National Historic Landmark District
hasHistoricSignificance one of the first planned suburban communities in the United States
prototype for garden suburbs in North America
hasPlanningConcept integration of architecture and landscape
picturesque suburban design
hasTransportation Metra BNSF Railway line
heritageDesignationCountry United States
heritageDesignationGrantedBy National Park Service
influenced later American suburban planning
influencedBy English garden city movement
knownFor curvilinear street plan
early planned suburban design
extensive park system
locatedIn Chicago metropolitan area
locatedNear Chicago
locatedOn Des Plaines River
partOf Riverside Historic District
western suburbs of Chicago
postalCodeRegion Illinois
state Illinois
timeZone CST
Central Time Zone
timeZoneDST CDT

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Riverside, Illinois town plan partOf Village of Riverside
Village of Riverside governingBody Village of Riverside Board of Trustees
linked to: Village of Riverside
Riverside Historic District partOf Village of Riverside