What is the wealthiest/richest south suburb

[JerichoHW]

Homer Glen??

[vester72]

Not Homer Glen - nice area but not even close.

[Irishtom29]

Since I-55 runs out from the Southwest Side of the city it makes sense that the burbs along it are southwest burbs. Same with Ogden Ave.

Naperville reaches pretty damned far south, it's reasonable to consider it a southwest suburb. And Ogden runs through it's north end.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

Since I-55 runs out from the Southwest Side of the city it makes sense that the burbs along it are southwest burbs. Same with Ogden Ave.

Naperville reaches pretty damned far south, it's reasonable to consider it a southwest suburb. And Ogden runs through it's north end.

I grew up in Glenwood and Homewood, have spent time living in the north suburbs and north side of the city, and now live in Naperville. Maybe it's the fact that I'll have a South Side chip on my shoulder until the day I die, but it absolutely drives me irrationally insane when anyone suggests that Naperville is anything close to being a southern suburb (I have heard this suggestion from a number of people from the North Side who seem to think that Oak Brook is closer to Carbondale than Chicago, so it's nothing personal to Irishtom29). I enjoy Naperville (since I obviously have chosen to settle down there), yet there's nothing remotely "South Side" about that town at all (even though it's technically south of Madison Street). Naperville is the epitome of a western suburb.

I can also attest to the changes in Homewood and Flossmoor over the past decade as someone that attended H-F back in the '90s - it has been a fairly rapid racial demographic change in a relatively short period of time. I don't think that the economic demographics have really altered much, but I'd be curious to see what the next census will show in 2010.