Is Kankakee a bad area to live in? (Chicago, Palatine: hotel, movie theater) - Page 4 - City-Data Forum

urza216 · 03-28-2012, 04:13 PM

I dont know about 70 stip malls but there sure are a lot of them in Bradley Borbanais.. As someone who knows what they are talking is well aware of.

K3 is what it is because historically the river was a great way to transport industry. Hence why the Kankakee River is so polluted.

urza216 · 03-30-2012, 02:30 PM

Lininx, Kankakee County just doesn't compare to the REAL rural areas like where you're from. If you knew any better, you'd be laughing at the K3 city slickers who think their lifestyle is comparable to yours.

linicx · 03-30-2012, 04:21 PM

Rural is rural. There isn't much to laugh about when it comes to poor rural areas. I don't think we can compare Kankakee with Peoria any more than we can compare Champaign to Chicago; the shoe doesn't fit. I lived 50 miles from an Olive Garden that was located in a city with a university, four colleges and two junior colleges. The food was good and the experience enjoyable, but, I could do the same thing locally, and not drive the 100 miles or pay the inflated prices.

urza216 · 03-30-2012, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by linicx

Rural is rural. There isn't much to laugh about when it comes to poor rural areas. I don't think we can compare Kankakee with Peoria any more than we can compare Champaign to Chicago; the shoe doesn't fit. I lived 50 miles from an Olive Garden that was located in a city with a university, four colleges and two junior colleges. The food was good and the experience enjoyable, but, I could do the same thing locally, and not drive the 100 miles or pay the inflated prices.

If Kankakee County didn't have an Olive Garden, it would still be a 40 minute drive up to the Olive Garden in Matteson. More like a half an hour if you are coming from Manteno (the northern end of the county). Northfeild Mall in Bourbanais is more hopping than the mall in Matteson..

The city of Kankakee is run down and impoverished from the industry that used to be there. Many people moved there to work in a factory or a steel mill generations ago. This work is no longer there but the people still are. Kinda like Detroit. It's pretty different than the "rural poverty" you are thinking about. Kankakee County has rural but you are still greeted by factories to this day. Kankakee is just another story about an industrial city with its glory days behind them. Like Gary.

This is pretty basic stuff. I don't know why you want to think Kankakee is something different than it is. Or why you want to think suburbs south of I-80 aren't suburbs even though they've been incorporated suburbs of Chicago since world war 2. What is gained by continuing to think and repeat false information? I don't know why you want to think these things that are as wrong as 1+1 = 3. Or how you can continue to think things that you are shown to be incorrect.

50 miles is a long distance. There are 6 Olive Gardens within 50 miles of Kankakee. Jeez, even the Olive Garden in Burbank is "only" 50.3 miles from Kankakee.

http://www.google.com/search?q=olive...w=1280&bih=620

linicx · 03-30-2012, 10:36 PM

You are assuming facts not evidence. Go back and read what I wrote. "I lived". Lived is past tense. I did not mention a state or a city. I specifically did not not mention Illinois because I was not in Illinois during that occasion. I haven't said much about the suburbs south of I-80 - except before this last census Kankakee was not in the Chicago mMSA; it wasn't. I do not know why you think Kankakee is the only small town in Illinois that has been impoverished by industry that closed or was shipped overseas. ??? You can find it all over the state -- even in the Peoria area.

sunnyandcloudydays · 03-31-2012, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Golfer31

K3 is a dump. The only people that like it are the ones who are holding onto their childhood memories. They say how much they want to leave, but they never do, because this is where their roots are.

Then when you confront them on the crime, they don't want to talk about it.

Sometimes even restaurant chains are regional or not even in certain parts of a state.

I remember an example either this past summer or the summer before.

Chic-fil-a was not and has not been a part of Chicagoland.

Now please keep in mind this is literally a fast food chain.

People in Orland Park, Wheaton and some other Suburbs were literally camping out to get the free coupons they were handing out.

There was even press write ups in the business papers.

All this for a CHAIN restaurant in an area what one would consider very
populated.

Wheaton is in Dupage CO. Population is around a million and Orland is mostly in Cook Pop around 5.5 mill.

Thinking about the comments maybe keep in mind alot of families have struggled with the economy which eventually trickled down into the mom and mom restaurants that many love.

It's great that people in the Kankakee area have a choice of Italian food.

I am not a fan of chain restaurants but there simply is no reason to poke fun at an area for this.

Another restaurant chain that is not or was not at leat in the south west burbs or south burbs was SONIC. (do not like the place, but it was not here.)

A decent chain that I think is great is Bob Evans which really is not in too many burbs either. I think there is one in Joliet and there used to be one in Lansing up until about 06

urza216 · 03-31-2012, 06:44 AM

There's a sonic on 167th in Country Club Hills. It's one of the only Sonic locations anywhere in Chicagoland.

It's been said that people from the Chicago area SAY "Sonic" funny. We just don't have the same experience with the chain as some other parts of the country.

allen2323 · 03-31-2012, 09:46 AM

Bourbonnais, Bradley, and Kankakee are in a rural location surrounded by cornfields. There might be a total population within a 10 mile radius of like 80,000. Bourbonnais has a decent variety of corporate retail and chain restaurants. It's hardly an economically redlined area. Those three communities are isolated and have a limited population within a 10 mile radius. Overall I wouldn't call that area poor at all. Along the kankakee river there are some very nice fairly expensive homes. Even in kankakee. And Bourbonnais has a lot of the typical suburban sprawl newer subdivisions. Sure there are some poorer parts particularly in kankakee. But, overall those three areas are decent and parts are very nice.

As it was being compared to the southern suburbs. Matteson has a much larger surrounding population and can sustain a lot more retail. Also located along a well traveled expressway corridor. The reason why matteson did not have quality retail and chains didn't build there until recently has more to do with the issue of racial redlining. Not surrounding population size or area income demographic.

sunnyandcloudydays · 03-31-2012, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by urza216

There's a sonic on 167th in Country Club Hills. It's one of the only Sonic locations anywhere in Chicagoland.

It's been said that people from the Chicago area SAY "Sonic" funny. We just don't have the same experience with the chain as some other parts of the country.

Yeah I know that location.
The last sonic I was at was the only sonic and that was 5 years ago
in Kentucky on a vacation.

The food was not bad just nothing out of the ordinary.

The other location I believe is in Cal City.

urza216 · 03-31-2012, 11:24 AM

I have never eaten at Sonic before. Maybe it's soemething I should try at least once. I have eaten at Jack in The Box in both the Pheonix area and Saint Louis. I heard Jack in The Box was banned in Illinois due to some health code incident of some kind. I have no idea why Sonic hasn't made way out here.