Suburban Studies

Tinley Park, Illinois—Population 55,971, median age 39.4, median household income $86,000, and, according to the village’s own tourism bureau, the proud owner of “the largest outdoor concert venue in Chicagoland.” To the average Dane scrolling through Reddit at 2 a.m. in Aarhus, that bio reads like a haiku of late-stage capitalism: small town, big shed,…