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 once Burbank’s eastern city limit. Burbank shares a boundary next Oak Lawn to its south, Bridgeview to its west, and Bedford Park to its north; the city of Hometown is also adjacent 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 part 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 inherit fruition. In the late 19th century a railroad trailblazer named A. B. Stickney planned a large railroad transfer middle 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 Place became an handsome site for real-estate developers who bought up 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.

In 1952, the area became allowance of Stickney Township. Though nevertheless unincorporated, this led to massive proceed in the area, and by 1960 the population of the area had reached 20,720, nearly triple the population of a decade earlier. The area was incorporated into a city in 1970, partly to resist annexation by the City of Chicago. The city was named after Luther Burbank Elementary School, an institution which had served the area since the 1930s. The area’s population peaked in 1976 at 29,448.