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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the suburb that inspired Mean Girls?[/quote]

I thought it was Winnetka. But Chicago isn't what I'd think of as flyover...[/quote]

I’m from Chicago and am now in DC. It’s extremely segregated and has major race problems. Neighborhoods can feel like small towns in some ways. It may be a huge city, but has many qualities you’d expect from a layover state once you get away from touristy areas.[/quote]

+1 - I'm moving to Chicago and looking at preschools in the city.  All of the home pages have homogenous white kids in pics, they don't even pretend to have diversity.  It was so startling to see.  I've talked to several people in chicago about it and they've said there are black neighborhoods and white neighborhoods and that's about it.  Its not like DC (which is far from perfect) in terms of having such a large variety of races / ethnicities / religions at least somewhat intermixed in many neighborhoods and schools.

And that's downtown, I imagine suburbs are even worse[/quote]

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