Photo Credits and Website Illustrations

The junk, room and yard pictures on these pages are AI-made illustrations; none of them shows a real job, customer, worker or street address.

A town page with no usable open-license photograph shows an AI-made drawing of a typical suburban street instead. It stands for the kind of neighborhood the page covers and does not depict the village itself.

Town photos

Each real photograph on a town page comes from Wikimedia Commons, carries the open license named beside it and is credited in the list below.

• Wheeling, Illinois: “Wheeling Metra Station Street 2021-06-05”, photographed by Jacob J Mackenzie and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Niles, Illinois: “Niles Veterans Memorial Fountain winter 2006”, photographed by Kelly Martin and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Morton Grove, Illinois: “Mansfield Park, Morton Grove, IL”, photographed by Nick Number and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Vernon Hills, Illinois: “Sunrise at Half Day Forest Preserve-Explore - Flickr - CheepShot”, photographed by CheepShot and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Evanston, Illinois: “Ackerman Park Evanston”, photographed by Kelly Martin and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.5; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Bellwood, Illinois: “Former Bellwood CA&E station”, photographed by AlphaBeta135 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• South Elgin, Illinois: “Hairpin turn at Fox River Trail - South Elgin, IL - November 2025”, photographed by AlphaBeta135 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Chicago, Illinois: “At Chicago 2024 150”, photographed by Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Batavia, Illinois: “Batavia Depot Museum in Winter (50920360327)”, photographed by Joseph Gage from USA and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Lisle, Illinois: “Lisle, IL, USA - panoramio”, photographed by bogdanstepniak and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Antioch, Illinois: “Antioch Train Station”, photographed by Gavin J. Dow and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Elk Grove Village, Illinois: “Elk Grove Village Public Library, Illinois, US, January 2025”, photographed by SimLibrarian and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Addison, Illinois: “Green Meadow Park in Addison, Illinois, US 02”, photographed by SimLibrarian and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• River Forest, Illinois: “20030101 01 Constitution Park River Forest”, photographed by David Wilson and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Glen Ellyn, Illinois: “Glen Ellyn, IL, USA - panoramio (2)”, photographed by Johnny Reyes and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Gurnee, Illinois: “Mother Rudd Home”, photographed by Kman2005 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Palatine, Illinois: “Lake near Slippery Rock Drive in Palatine, Illinois”, photographed by Mysterymanblue and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Wood Dale, Illinois: “Wood Dale Station 004”, photographed by Mpen320 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Algonquin, Illinois: “Algonquin, IL - River Road - panoramio”, photographed by RSchulenburg and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Winnetka, Illinois: “2015-05-11 06 41 46 View southeast down Lincoln Avenue from in front of the "Home Alone" house at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois”, photographed by Famartin and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Lincolnwood, Illinois: “Columbia Park, Lincolnwood, IL”, photographed by Nick Number and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Villa Park, Illinois: “IPP Main Stem at IL 83 (1) - Villa Park, IL - July 2023”, photographed by AlphaBeta135 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• St. Charles, Illinois: “Aerial view of Randall Road corridor, September 2018”, photographed by Pi.1415926535 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Warrenville, Illinois: “IL 56 west at EJ&E overpass - Aurora-Warrenville, IL - May 2023”, photographed by AlphaBeta135 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Arlington Heights, Illinois: “Canada geese at Lake Arlington in Arlington Heights, IL”, photographed by OhanaSurf and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Cary, Illinois: “LionsParkFRGIL”, photographed by Carldaniel and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Elmhurst, Illinois: “Aerial view of Elmhurst, Illinois, October 2024”, photographed by Pi.1415926535 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Libertyville, Illinois: “Des Plaines River north at IL 137 - Libertyville, IL - July 2026”, photographed by AlphaBeta135 and shared on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0; cropped and scaled for this page.
• Geneva, Illinois: “Fabyan FLWright 1907”, photographed by Smallbones and shared on Wikimedia Commons under Public domain; cropped and scaled for this page.