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Old 12-08-2010, 10:07 PM
 
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Hi my parents bought a home in Richton in 73 in around 94 they built new homes I was 15 and the town went from white to black over night. It's good to have balance but the town went under matteson also. The schools all rich ones were bad by time I got there.. How ever the last year I'm seeing more white and it's more balancing out. Maybe this is me hoping because Richton is forever home to me. The old barber shop, bumper to bumper, garfarlaos, revco I think it was the pharmacy the old meat market it's rent by owner now. It was a great place to grow up Orr construction fields quiet you had stores in matteson and some in park forset by highways and trains.. Is it bouncing back I don't want it 90 white but I want balance I live in ind but I worry about my family there.. Take care everyone
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Old 12-09-2010, 05:34 PM
 
Location: Oregon, OH
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Interesting. My last impressions of Richton before I left the area in 2005 (grew up in Park Forest) was that the town was headed down the crapper with a bullet. It was stunning how fast that town changed back in the late 90's like you mentioned. Much faster than Park Forest, faster even than Matteson. It was old-school south Chicagoland white flight, for whatever reasons. The new subdivisions that had been built in the 90's were becoming foreclosure city even before the national real estate market collapsed, and the apartment complexes were getting overrun with ghetto scum.

But, hey, in this economy not everyone can afford to flee to Mokena or Schererville or Minooka anymore. And Richton has some very nice homes that aren't too expensive, and it's got great access to multiple Metra stations if you work in the Loop.
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Old 12-09-2010, 10:15 PM
 
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White people are moving back if they wouldn't have left it never would have got the way it did.. The apartments off Richton square and lion crest were always bad.. The new homes were kind of fancy but it didn't work out. I see more and more white out there not sure if they live there..
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