Golf in Blue Island

Blue Island is a Cook County city with an unusual geographic distinction — it sits on a glacial ridge, one of the few genuine topographic features on the otherwise flat Chicago plain. That ridge, once an island above the postglacial Lake Chicago, gave the community its name and its distinct identity. Blue Island has maintained an independent civic character and a dense urban fabric that distinguishes it from more recent suburban communities. Meadows Golf Club serves a community with a proud and occasionally contentious history of self-determination within the broader Cook County metropolitan context. The community's golf culture reflects the midwestern combination of practicality and recreation, where courses are built and maintained with community investment and the straightforward purpose of providing quality sport for working families.