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Facilities include hiking and biking trails, wildlife refuges, greenbelts,
a Sportsplex and an aquatic center, Lake Sedgewick, an ice arena, golf
courses, playing fields and parks, and more. There is a variety of housing,
including single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and apartments.
Situated 25 miles southwest of Chicago, Orland Park provides access to
several interstate highways, with the I-80 east-west coast connector
as its southern border. Metra’s commuter rail system links residents
to Chicago’s Loop, and thereby to O’Hare and Midway airports.
There are more than 70 malls, plazas and shopping centers, with additional
shopping under construction, and more than 200 food-serving establishments.
Orland Park is located in southwest Cook County in Orland Township at
41°36′42″N, 87°51′15″W (41.611582, -87.854302)[2].
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area
of 19.4 square miles (50.3 km²), of which, 19.1 square miles (49.6
km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.8 km²) of it (1.49%)
is water. The main bodies of water in Orland are three lakes: Lake Sedgewick,
McGinnis Slough (also referred to as 'Orland Lake' in maps) and Tampier
Lake.
The only moving body of water in Orland Park is the Calumet Sag Channel
(or 'Cal-Sag Channel'), which is one mile (1.6 km) north of the town's
northernmost limits. Bordering communities of Orland Park include the newly
formed Homer Glen to the west (in Will County), Orland Hills and Mokena
(also in Will County) to the south, Tinley Park to the southeast, Oak Forest
to the east, and Palos Park and Palos Heights to the north. Orland Park
has annexed land from its neighbors on a few occasions.
The most recent
and notable annexiations are from neighboring town Palos Park (the land
was the Palos Country Club and is now the Southmore residential development)
and southern neighbor Orland Hills (the land was a large, vacant farm field
and is now another residential development and an upscale commercial development).[citation
needed] Orland Park is also home to a large amount of commercial and retail
development, and can be considered the major regional retail center of
Chicago's south suburbs.[original research?] Among these developments is
Orland Square Mall, considered by some to be the largest, most upscale
shopping mall in Chicago's south/west suburbs, as well as the recently
rebuilt Orland Park Place.[citation needed]
The north end of the village
is the location of the new high-end Orland Park Crossing lifestyle center,
home to P.F. Chang's China Bistro and many other specialty stores. In all,
Orland Park has over 5,000,000 square feet (460,000 m2) of retail area
within its borders and is the seventh highest retail sales tax generator
(in dollars) in the state of Illinois.[citation needed] |
