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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are the less starkly white suburbs with excellent schools and safe neighborhoods? Is Evanston my best bet? How are Albany Park, Skokie, and Oak Park?[/quote]

The closer you are to the city the more diversity you will find. Being near a rail line into the city is also important. COVID and the recent violence in the city are pushing people out and I’m sure some of the corporations that moved into the city over the past ten years are beginning to reconsider. [/quote]

Oak Park and Skokie are both diverse, but if you're both working on the north side, not sure why you'd want Oak Park. OP and Evanston both have nice downtown areas that are distinctive from the rest of the suburb. Skokie to me just feels like a continuation of the morass of the rest of the northern suburbs.

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Oak Park would be a bad commute to North Chicago.  Evanston is diverse as is Skokie.  Evanston I think is a prettier town with a better downtown area and access to Lake Michigan.  The western edge of Evanston that borders Skokie feels very similar in terms of housing stock and layout.  Both of those towns have lower test scores than some of the more homogenous suburbs but if you break it down by demographics, you’ll see the similar pattern that white non-economically disadvantaged kids have high test scores.  In fact I think Evanston schools are quite strong due to the high number of Northwestern faculty families.[/quote]

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