Fact text

  • La Grange's annual Pet Parade, running since 1947, has featured elephants and donkeys from Brookfield Zoo as Grand Marshals.
  • Susan Dey and Danny Bonaduce of 'The Partridge Family' once served as Grand Marshals of La Grange's beloved Pet Parade in 1971.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright designed a sneaky 'bootleg' house in La Grange on the side while he was supposed to be working exclusively for another architect, and got fired for it.
  • Some 14,000 years ago, La Grange sat on the shoreline of a prehistoric lake, and you can still trace that ancient waterline along a modern village street.
  • La Grange is the mailing address for Electro-Motive Diesel, the company responsible for building some of America's most iconic railroad locomotives.
Your
La Grange
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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15555
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Total Population
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$
122629
Median Income
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$
512500
Median Home
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16
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
La Grange
ranks for retirees?
27
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
8
Affordability
40
Healthcare
16
Climate
68

Results

La Grange

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
8

Illinois does not tax Social Security benefits, which can meaningfully reduce the state tax burden for retirees drawing that income.

State sales tax here runs about

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
8
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
40

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
40
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
16

The area has

43

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
68

A

climate — summers peak near

°F, winters dip to about

°F, with roughly

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Very High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Very High

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