Oak Forest provides a strong environment for residential, commercial and industrial development. The city continually strives to enhance its economic vitality and superior quality of life by ensuring top-notch development and redevelopment, protecting its natural resources, supporting its business community and maintaining attractive neighborhoods. The city also works closely with the Oak Forest-Crestwood Area Chamber of Commerce, which serves more than 200 local professionals, businesses, organizations and government entities on economic development efforts.
If you are an existing businesses looking to grow or a new business or developer looking to come to Oak Forest we are here to help and hope you'll reach out today!
Oak Forest has recently made a variety of zoning changes and released a few new economic development tools to assist you make growing our businesses and attracting new businesses a priority. We have a variety of ground up development sites in the city. Some are city owned properties others are privately owned. Use our map here to identify a possible infill development site near our Metra Station and commercial corridors that could work for you!