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La Grange, a suburb of Chicago, is a village in Cook County, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 15,608 at the 2000 census. The name La Grange is French for "the barn."

The area around La Grange was first settled in the 1830s, when Chicago residents, already fed up with the rapid population increase in that city in the decade since its incorporation, moved out to the west. The first settler, Robert Leitch, came to what is now La Grange in 1830, a full seven years before the city of Chicago was incorporated in March 1837.

La Grange's location, at approximately thirteen miles from Chicago's Loop, is not considered far at all from the city by today's standards, but in that time the residents enjoyed the peace of rural life without much communication with urban residents.

Incorporated on June 11, 1879, the Village of La Grange was the dream of Franklin Dwight Cossitt, born in Granby, Connecticut and raised in Tennessee, who moved to Chicago in 1862 and built a successful wholesale grocery business. In 1870, Cossitt purchased several hundred acres of farmland in Lyons Township, along the Chicago-Dixon Road, known today as Ogden Avenue (U.S. Highway 34).

   
 
   
 
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Ogden Avenue, on the site of a defunct Native American trail, was also referred to as the "Old Plank Road". Planks were often stolen by settlers to be used as building material, which made travling very bumpy. When the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad came to town, La Grange was a milk stop called Hazel Glen. A few miles to the south, through present day Willow Springs, the Illinois and Michigan Canal had emerged as a major shipping corridor, connecting Chicago and the Great Lakes with the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers.

Cossitt set out to build the ideal suburban village - laying out streets, planting trees, donating property for churches and schools, and building quality homes for sale. He also placed liquor restrictions in the land deeds he sold to prevent the village from becoming a saloon town. When Cossitt began his development, the area was served by a post office known as Kensington. But upon learning of another community already with that name in Illinois, Cossitt decided to name his town in honor of La Grange, Tennessee, where he had been raised as a youth on an uncle's cotton farm. However, today Kensington remains the name of one of the village's major streets.

After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed much of that city, thousands of its citizens sought new homes and opportunities far from the city's ills but within a convenient commute. La Grange was ideally situated to accommodate them.

 
   
 
 
Illinois Cities in Which We Have Performed Wedding Photography
Below is a partial list of cities in which we have performed wedding photography:
Hazel Crest
Hickory Hills
Highland Park
Hillside
Hoffman Estates
Homewood
Inverness
Itasca
Justice
Kankakee
LaGrange
Lake Bluff
Lake Zurich
Lake in the Hills
Lansing
Lincolnshire
Lindenhurst
Lynwood
Lyons
Manteno
Marengo
Markham
Matteson
Maywood
Melrose Park
Midlothian
Morris
Morton Grove
Mount Prospect
Mundelein
Niles
Norridge
North Aurora
North Chicago
North Riverside
Northbrook
Northlake
Oak Forest
Oak Lawn
Orland Hills
Orland Park
Oswego
Ottawa
Palatine
Palos Heights
Park Forest
Park Ridge
Pontiac
Prospect Heights
 
LaGrange, Illinois
The town of LaGrange, Illinois is one of our most favorite towns in which to capture wedding photography. The beautiful town of LaGrange gives us many opportunities to perform our photojournalist wedding style as well as traditional wedding style of photography.

In addition to LaGrange, other favorite towns we have enjoyed performing wedding photography in include: Chicago, Lombard, Joliet, Naperville, Schaumburg, and Oakbrook.

 
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Specials for LaGrange Weddings

We have several specials currently being offered for LaGrange Weddings. See our pricing page for our current specials as well as pricing for:

  • Traditional Wedding Albums
  • Matted Wedding Albums
  • Coffee Table Books
  • Flush Mount Albums
  • High Resolution Digital Negatives
  • Prints in Color, Black & White, and Sepia
  • Digital Photo Albums
  • Musical Photo Show DVDs
  • Photo Composites
  • Special Effects

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