Question

Riverside, Illinois, just outside the city of Chicago, was one of the first middle-class garden suburbs in the United States. When was it developed — 1863, 1887, or 1902?

Answer

Riverside was designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted in 1863. It was among the first of the middle-class garden suburbs that sprung up around Chicago during the city's rapid growth in that period. Olmstead's design — with its winding, picturesque, wooded layout, and a high-speed rail connection to downtown Chicago — became a prototype for later middle-class suburbs.