Robbins is a village southwest of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

[7] Kellar, who was a clerk for the Cook County Board of Assessors, was tasked with investigating the procedures of incorporation.

After incorporation the community became a popular recreation spot for black Chicagoans, who crowded its picnic grounds and nightclubs on summer weekends.

[17] Robbins is served by a station on Metra's Rock Island District commuter rail line.

O'Hare International Airport is within a 30-45 minute drive via Interstate 294 using the IL-50/ 83 Cicero Exit.

Robbins Airport, the first to be owned and operated by African-Americans in the United States, was located here from 1930 to 1933.

It had the only flight school at the time where African-Americans could be trained as pilots, and served as a model for the Tuskegee Airmen Program during World War II.

The surrounding white communities, such as Blue Island and Midlothian, did not approve of this activity, and their police sometimes arrested black pilots after they had landed in Robbins.

One notable instructor and the man considered to be the founder of the Robbins airport was John C. Robinson,[19] who was Supreme Commander of the Ethiopian Air Force when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935.

[20] The activities of these men and women have been recognized by the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum.