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r/ChicagoSuburbs

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

248.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 102.4K upvotes, which works out to 412 per 1,000 members.

412peak upvotes per 1,000 members
248.5Kmembers
102.4Kbest post
6Kmost comments
106posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

50% 22% 12% 10%
Image 50% Video 22% Gallery 12% Link 10% Text 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Photo/Video 37 News 27 Event(s) 10 Miscellaneous 9 ICE Sighting - Verified 8 Food & Drink Recommendations 5 Question/Comment 4 Politics 2 Protests & Demonstrations 2 Missing Person 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

No criminal charges filed against Lake Zurich High School student who punched classmate

↑ 102.4K 💬 3.9K image 2026

OKAY

↑ 64.3K 💬 3.6K image 2026

Homeowner in Lyons, IL catches ICE and HSI agents trying to break into his house

↑ 58.5K 💬 3.5K video 2025

This dude is a legend!!!

↑ 54.5K 💬 3.2K image 2026

A student at Lake Zurich High School holds a sign that reads, “I Love I.C.E.” and records another student confronting and punching him

↑ 28.5K 💬 6K video 2026

At the Broadview ICE facility today

↑ 14.5K 💬 1K video 2025

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocks Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs after Trump pardons

↑ 13.1K 💬 548 link 2025

New Tesla Dealership vandalized today

↑ 11K 💬 150 image 2025

💪🙂‍↕️

↑ 9.8K 💬 483 image 2025

“Free Luigi” on the door of a Park Ridge building

↑ 9.3K 💬 303 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/ChicagoSuburbs, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/ChicagoSuburbs have?
r/ChicagoSuburbs has about 248.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 106 of its posts; the biggest reached 102.4K upvotes, which is 412 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ChicagoSuburbs?
"No criminal charges filed against Lake Zurich High School student who punched classmate" reached 102.4K upvotes and 3.9K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ChicagoSuburbs.
What subreddits are similar to r/ChicagoSuburbs?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/ChicagoSuburbs?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are image posts and 22% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ChicagoSuburbs?
Across 106 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 20:00 UTC (24.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 23:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ChicagoSuburbs?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ChicagoSuburbs has 4.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 3 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ChicagoSuburbs, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.