Best neighborhood with easy commute to Prizker/Northwestern Medical Center
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Anonymous
| Looking for, ideally, walkable neighborhood with good restaurants, good ES, and single family homes, or townhomes, and all that within a 30 minute commute. HHI about 600K. |
Anonymous
Northwestern Hospital is pretty east from OTC (downtown Metra station), so you will need to take a bus or walk, from any train coming from the suburbs. Evanston or Skokie might be a stretch for 600k for a townhouse, but if traffic is not terrible, your drive might be 45 minutes. Other area would be Oak Park, but I don't know as much about the real estate. |
Anonymous
| Household income is 600k, not budget for house |
Anonymous
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Depends on what you consider a "good" ES. And are you willing to move for junior high and/or high school? We ran to a close-in suburb when we had kids after living in the city. We have half an acre, a responsive local government, good schools without worrying about a lottery, great amenities, etc. The only thing we're missing is that the restaurants are better in the city. My commute to the Loop is about an hour door-to-door. The Metra ride in is far better than driving in.
On that HHI, you can live anywhere in Chicago. 30-minute commute is a bit tough from the burbs, though. There are neighborhoods with single family homes and townhomes in the city - but they'll mostly be mixed with apartment buildings and 2/3-flats. |
Anonymous
| Lincoln Park or the Gold Coast, maybe Printer’s Row, but 600k indicates you’re older so LP or the Gold Coast would be a better fit. The North Shore is 45 min away if you play your cards right and have no traffic. Metra is too far away from Northwestern Hospital and getting from the Ohio St extension to Streeterville is an odyssey at 8 am unto itself. |
Anonymous
| PP here - you’ll have to give up either the short commute or the good public ES’s. But Latin or Parker (or Lab - if you want to live down in Hyde Park) at $45k/year will work and should be okay with your income. |
Anonymous
| When you say “neighborhood” you mean in the city? Lincoln Park. All CPS elem in LP are solid. |