In its heyday, the house at 92 Rainbow Road was a brazen declaration of wealth. Courtesy of the Cokenower Family 24-karat gold fixtures and ghosts Outside the Rainbow Road house after the accident in 1968. (A plaque commemorates the site in nearby Langendorf Park not far from the pickleball courts.) The town reenacted the shootout in 2015 in a parking lot on Lions Parkway, just behind a McDonald’s. Locals going about their business on the Northwest Highway near Cuba Road are driving the same stretch where Baby Face Nelson, on his way home to Barrington in 1934, got into a bloody machine-gun battle that took his life - and the lives of two bureau agents. Its past includes mysterious accidents, desecrated graves, sketchy safe houses and the burned torso of a Mafia stool pigeon. The town, which has slightly more than 10,000 residents, contains only slightly fewer ghost stories. Teenagers, as they do, have long called it Borington.īarrington, however, is not boring.

Former residents include reality TV fixture Kristin Cavallari and square-jawed Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins.

The houses are big, the lawns short, the people polished.

Barrington, a bucolic village roughly 40 miles northwest of the Loop, looks exactly the way city dwellers might imagine a quiet, wealthy suburb.

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