The Gadberry Group
Illinois
Boomtown: Oswego
Household growth (2000-08): 98%
Household income growth (2000-08): 8%
Home value: $265,000
Oswego, a Chicago bedroom community that was a setting for the Fox TV show Prison Break, has experienced a population explosion with the rise of new housing projects during the boom. Oswego area households grew 98% from 2000 to 2008, to 16,052. The average income jumped 8% during that period, to $84,785 in 2008.
