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[quote=Anonymous]Chicagoan here who lives in the city with my DH and 11-year-old who is in sixth grade. I could tell from your post (2 flat!) you were from this area.

We lived in a 2B/2BA condo (8 unit building/about 1200 sq feet/Lincoln Square neighborhood) until she was in second grade and then moved to Old Irving Park, which is a neighborhood on the NW side with primarily single family homes but is close to the blue line/metra/highway so is easy to get all over the city.

Do it but make a plan to move to a bigger living area once your kids get older. That space will work with them now but unless you are all prepared to do it for the long haul it's going to be tight quarters, particularly if you and your partner work from home. You may or may not be able to stay at you CPS school, some of the principals will let kids stay even if they are out of neighborhood boundaries. Or try the lottery for magnet now to see what you get for next year and then you can stay as long as you stay in Chicago.

The high school situation is complicated. We are willing to pay for Catholic school but she will still need to test, and I would love if she tested into a public. Our neighborhood HS is not an option but plenty of her friends' siblings are at SEHS.

City kids move and switch schools I think more frequently than other kids. We saw a big influx of kids before fourth and fifth grade at my DD's large Catholic school, and then about 6-8 left before middle schools, many of those for the suburbs or moving out of state because they didn't want to deal with the high school situation.

This is rambling, and I'm happy to answer questions, but long story short - I write as a person with a 606 zip code who loves living in the city. We are friends with so many city families and it's a really wonderful place to live. 
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