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Old 12-09-2013, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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I don't know budget or what you want to be near; perhaps near downtown Arlington heights?
Convenient to Metra, within 20 minutes of EGV, fun, walkable (for a suburb)
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Old 12-09-2013, 06:43 PM
 
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A classic case of "how do you solve for x" working in the Loop you can live anywhere, except perhaps the far SW suburbs. Employment centers include DuPage and O'Hare. You want to be convenient to either, and you know you need to be convenient to Elk Grove. So you want to be along the Rt 53/355 corridor. Schaumburg or Rolling Meadows meet this. If there is a chance she will be working in Lake County, perhaps Arlington Heights along Lake Cook Rd.
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Old 12-10-2013, 08:48 AM
 
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EGV is really centered on Rt 83 NOT Rt 53 and living more than a little bit away from Rt 83 would add signficantly to one's travel time...
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Old 12-10-2013, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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but from a quality of life aspect, along 355/290/53 is a lot more appealing than along rte 83, until you get into Elmhurst. The apartments along Busse or rte 83 in Mt. Prospect/Des Plaines south of Golf Rd. are are not complexes I would want to live in. They're not scary bad, just kind of "dreggy" bad.
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Old 12-12-2013, 04:37 PM
 
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Ah, my wife doesn't have a job lined up yet. We're assuming it'll be somewhere where the Metra takes her. Otherwise we'll have to get a second car and she'll be driving to work as well.
May or may not help, but what sort of field does she work in/what type of jobs would she be looking for?
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Old 12-15-2013, 08:23 AM
 
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Whatever you do, ask about O'Hare noise. I hear it can be very aggrivating.
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Old 12-16-2013, 09:33 AM
 
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As far as I know, and I have been lately going to EGV every day for a while, its a straight shoot north up 355. I get off at Biesterfield Rd. Rt. 83 is a ways east.
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