About Us
Village of Matteson
"A Short Distance to a Great Way of Life"
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Matteson is a very vibrant community that is proud of its rich heritage, excited about its recent growth and development, and has eagerly anticipated the challenges of this 21st century. From its beginning as a settlement at the intersection of the Illinois Central and New York Central Railroads in 1855, to the modern day intersection of U.S. Route 30, Cicero Avenue and I-57, our community has been transformed into a center of commercial and residential development, and a hub of the southern suburbs. The community is named after the tenth Governor of Illinois, Joel A. Matteson, who was in office at the time of settlement. The family has always pronounced the name with three syllables, “Matt-e-sun.”
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Today, Matteson is an excellent community for family or business to locate. We are proud of our diversity, and ever mindful of the high quality of life our residents have grown to expect. It is a community which offers a wide range of housing resources, award-winning schools, excellent village services, and is a major retail center for the entire south Suburban region. These and many other attractions have made Matteson an exemplary community of which we are very proud; as our motto indicates, we are truly the crossroads of heritage and progress.

 

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