Illinois Real Estate & Relocation Guide

Northfield, Illinois

Population: 4,700

Located in Cook County

When speaking about Northfield many people refer to it as a "little rural community".

Northfielders are proud of their quaint village that still retains its bucolic air despite being a part of busy Chicagoland. However, Northfield is hardly the fictional town of Mayberry. Housing and business developments have claimed all of what was once farmland.

Middlefork, the village's kindergarten through 3rd grade school, now has three classrooms for some of the grades as does Sunset Ridge, the 4th grade through 8th grade school. Northfield is part of the New Trier High School district, a top-rated high school in the Chicago area and in the nation.