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Burbank is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 29,439 at the 2020 census. It is located at the southwest edge of the city of Chicago; the Chicago city limit – specifically that of the Ashburn neighborhood – is in common afterward Burbank’s eastern city limit. Burbank shares a boundary following Oak Lawn to its south, Bridgeview to its west, and Bedford Park to its north; the city of Hometown is also next to Burbank’s southeast corner. Burbank is less than two miles south of Chicago Midway International Airport.

In 1850, the Place which would become the city of Burbank, then largely uninhabited and agrarian, became allocation of Lyons Township. Over the next-door hundred years the Place remained largely undeveloped, though several era large plans were laid out for the area, never to agree fruition. In the late 19th century a railroad explorer named A. B. Stickney planned a large railroad transfer center which included what became the northern portion of Burbank, but his ideas were never realized due to an economic depression in 1893.

In the 1920s, the area became an handsome site for real-estate developers who bought in the works farmland and built subdivisions. However, ongoing drainage problems, practically nonexistent water and sewage systems and the Great Depression kept Burbank largely unbuilt and empty until the 1950s.