A suburb of Chicago, located to the southwest of the city. Orland Park is viewed as a haven of rich, white, preppy kids. This is a rather unfair generalization, as most of its residents are middle-class, and the only reason people are seen as "rich" is because no one ever saves their money. Splurge is the name of the game in Orland Park.

Orland Park is home to a very large cross-section of drug users and alcoholics. Abuse of prescription drugs, like Vicodin and Adderal}, and non-prescription drugs like No-Doz and Robitussin, is fairly common among younger teens. Illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine are quite prevalent in populace, as is ecstacy and LSD, much to the chagrin of the local police force, who tend to spend more time charging people with crimes pertaining to illegal substances. Alcoholism is probably the most common vice, with several drunk driving arrests every week, with even more who don't get caught. Domestic Abuse is also common, but goes largely unreported.

Thieves and other such unsavory characters come from all around to shoplift from any of several hundred stores in the area. If they're not black, they're foreign (generally from the former Soviet Bloc countries), but are almost always poor.

Many young people here are posers, be it Scene posers, Ghetto posers, or what have you. Most of them will deny any affiliation, but are clearly trying to be part of something.

The terrible truth about Orland Park is that the "affluence" of the area (barely) hides the extraordinary amount of lowlives and petty criminals within.

Apart from the foibles of it's people, Orland Park is not really a bad place. It seems stagnated to long-time residents, but there are still plenty of things you can do around here. If you're not able to have fun here, then you're not far from someplace where the fun is. Prices are ridiculous if you need gas or cigarettes, but since Will County is so close, it's easy to get around the high prices.

There is very little undeveloped land, most of it being commercial area. The undeveloped areas are either incapable of sustaining buildings, or is federally protected forest, or wetland. Strip malls are abundant, but usually contain identical stores. There is no shortage of ways to lose your money here.
Chicagoan: Orland Park people wish they lived here.
Orlander: Right, because I want all my stuff stolen and I wanna get shot.
Chicagoan: That's a stereotype.
Orlander: So's what you said.
by Bozenda January 27, 2007
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Orland Park is actually a very fucked up town, but the fact that it's very affluent makes people who aren't from Orland Park believe that it's a great place to live. And in many ways, it is. It has great schools, shopping centers, recreation areas for people into sports and swimming, etc. For the most part, the houses are very nice, and definitely very pricey. It was actually rated as one of the best places to live in Barron's magazine or some shit.

However, Orland Park also has a little bit of a, how should I put this; a little bit of a drug problem. It seems like everybody and their mother is addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, prescription drugs (Adderall, Vicodin, Oxycontin, Xanax). And it's sad, because the youth of this town, (those aged 15-24) for the most part, have been given every opportunity to succeed. Most kids in this town who have problems with drugs and alcohol have retarded parents, and think that sending them to an expensive rehab facility is the answer to all their problems.

I don't think the police have any idea about how bad the drug problem in Orland Park is. It's not uncommon at all to be driving down the street and see guys and girls in their cars smoking weed, sniffing cocaine/heroin, drinking, etc. They do this shit like it's legal; it's fucking crazy. It really is.

Many, many kids from Orland Park kill themselves too. For whatever reason (probably because of these drug/alcohol related issues), Orland Park is a huge haven for teen/young adult suicides. And if they're not shooting themselves in the head, hanging themselves, then they're overdosing and dying that way. It's not uncommon to have a friend who has died from suicide or a drug overdose in Orland Park. You might think, "Well, those are just the fuck-ups." But that's not the case. Some of these kids were the smartest, most popular, best looking, and with the brightest futures imaginable.

Orland Park is not a really a small town, but it kind of is I guess. There's quite a few people who live in Orland Park, (nearly 60,000) but nonetheless, it seems like everybody knows each other still. The six-degrees of separation is more like two-degrees of separation in Orland Park.

Anyway, there are many people who aren't currently Orland Park residents that look at this suburb as if it's the place to live for anybody who wants to raise a nice family. Many people strive to be able to afford a house in Orland Park because for the most part, homes will cost you between 400-450K, even the shitty ones. But be warned, Orland Park is the epitome of suburban youth gone wrong. It is the epitome of over-privileged youth taking every advantage of their privileged lives and running them into the fucking ground. The drug problem is ridiculous. If you move here for your child to have a nice place to grow up, know up front that there's a good chance he or she will do hard drugs. Also, know that he or she will probably be an alcoholic. Just don't say I didn't warn you.
John: Man, I went to Orland Park last night. Holy shit, they're fucked up.

Matt: Yeah, it's fucking crazy.
by joejizzle January 18, 2008
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Ghetto city that is also known as a fire town where a bunch of libtards burn the town down, the place of hell.
Orland Park, the place of fires.
by bitchdipshit February 21, 2021
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overall shitty town that poses as "the place to live" on the south side of Chicago, but is really just a separation of east and west. East of LaGrange Road is shitty and run down, with old and shitty houses and stores, crime, drugs, and foreigners. Now don't get me wrong, west of LaGrange Road isn't that much better, but over there you'll find the roads to be filled with luxury cars, the streets to be lined with 500k+ new homes, and the homes to be filled with wealthy families. On both east and west sides, expect to find drugs and crime. The Orland square mall is nice, but attracts more crime to the east neighborhoods. In Orland, all four of the public elementary schools are decent. The public junior highs aren't even that good, Century has the west-end snobby rich kids, Orland Junior high has a bunch of kids acting like whores, and Jerling has a bunch of students doing drugs, and Sandburg is decent, and is very "diverse". Lincoln-way is another high school some orland kids might go to, and that is pretty decent as well. The Catholic schools St. Michael and Cardinal Bernadine are good academically, but the students are pretty snobby. My point is none of these schools (especially the public ones) aren't very good, they're all just decent. Perhaps the reason Orland is deemed as affluent, is because of the west side, but it is far from "perfect" It is really just a decent place to live, there are much better places to live in Illinois.
Non-Orlander "doesn't Orland Park just have forest preserves and the mall?"
Orlander "Oh, you forgot the drugs, the crime, the rich kids, and the endless construction."
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A group of teens from Carl Sandburg Highschool who took it upon themselves to get high in school. But not just by the traditional way.. (Using a G pen, dabs etc) but found it more amusing to sneak down and "hotbox" a janitors bathroom during school hours while students were currently in class. Which qualifies these 3 students to be considered the most savage of all time, smoking A1 marijuana in their own schools basement, leaving the area reeking.
Yo jake did you hear about the orland park savages ? yeah I heard they hotboxed a bathroom in school.

Lmao why they so savage ?
by Southsidepack February 8, 2015
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