Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 00:19     Subject: What Chicago suburbs are nice?
Barrington is lovely.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2022 14:31     Subject: Re:What Chicago suburbs are nice?
What about Park Ridge?
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2022 23:46     Subject: What Chicago suburbs are nice?
I'm not from Chicago but visit the area often with DH. He likes River Forest. The neighborhoods feed into Oak Park River Forest High School and there is an El station.

I don't get the Cabrini-Green reference.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2021 09:36     Subject: What Chicago suburbs are nice?
Anonymous wrote:Budget is up to $1 million. Live in WL district in Arlington and like it. I have heard not so great things about the north shore area, particularly those feeding into New Trier- the whole conspicuous consumption, rich kid affluenza thing. And a total pressure cooker environment. True or not?

We like neighborhoods with sidewalks, trees, prefer older homes although new homes are fine but very much against tract homes, cul-de-sac-y type subdivisions.


No more of a pressure cooker environment than in Arlington. It's just that unlike Virginia, the state schools in IL suck.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2021 09:32     Subject: Re:What Chicago suburbs are nice?
Anonymous wrote:We lived in Lake Forest for 15 years and we loved it. But, it’s lack of diversity always concerned us. The excellent high school had a black football coach and a black superintendent but there was always an undercurrent questioning their competence.


It seems so boring and white bread.