LaGrange is a nice suburb and very safe.
I can’t say enough good about the community, which has its own forestry department to care for the 10,000 or so trees. The Village plants and maintains them in the space between the sidewalk and the street. Every home is REQUIRED to have at least one tree. When I grew up they were all Dutch Elms, with all but a few blocks wiped out by Dutch Elm disease.
Two things though. The Village has gone increasingly leftist and woke, which explains STUPID parents driving their kids to and from schools. There’s also another “side of the tracks” on the southeast side where you just shouldn’t go for the same reason you shouldn’t go to the south side of Chicago.
One more story about La Grange… In high school I was an — I’m almost sorry to admit it — an environmentalist leader. I was appointed to the new Village Environmental Commission and became the youngest commissioner in its history (at least to that point). The nearby Salt Creek was so polluted I started an organization called Save Salt Creek, which put me on front page articles on the La Grange Citizen. In recent years I’ve marveled at how clear the Salt Creek water appears.