Matteson Illinois

[Opkl]

I agree with southsidewhitetrash, Matteson is a nice town. The only bad part might be the Lincoln Mall thanks to Orland Square and River Oaks taking all the stores from it in their 1995 makeover.

[Humboldt1]

I see the decline taking another 10-15 years to fully manifest itself. How can anyone who has stayed at the Holiday Inn or eaten at the Olive Garden call that a nice town? Maybe my definition of nice is different. I know a lot of other areas on the south side I would rather move to, though I prefer the western and northern suburbs as a whole.

[SouthSideWhiteTrash]

Originally Posted by Humboldt1

I see the decline taking another 10-15 years to fully manifest itself. How can anyone who has stayed at the Holiday Inn or eaten at the Olive Garden call that a nice town? Maybe my definition of nice is different. I know a lot of other areas on the south side I would rather move to, though I prefer the western and northern suburbs as a whole.

No offense, but I still don't see anything wrong with the Holiday Inn in Matteson. It's definitely nicer than a lot of hotels and motels I've stayed in across the United States. I've stayed at some true dumps and some really nice and ridiculously expensive hotels, and the Holiday Inn in Matteson is what I consider "industry-average", it's by no means a dump. The room my friend's bachelor party in was very clean, before the party that is, much cleaner than some rooms I stayed in across the country. When I went there for the tattoo convention, I saw the rest of the Holiday Inn and I saw nothing that made me cringe. No offense, but I can't help but think that the only reason why you don't like that Holiday Inn is because of the large numbers of black people that are usually there. It doesn't bother me being the only white guy there, even the only white guy at the bachelor's party. I never ate at the Olive Garden in Matteson, but I ate at Panera Bread, Long John's Silver's, and Fuddruckers, and nothing was substandard about any of those joints, just your typical food chains, and I'd assume Olive Garden would be of average quality and on par with most typical Olive Gardens. I guess you just didn't like eating around black people, is that it?

[Chicagoland60426]

Matteson is not ghetto or bad in my opinion. I'm sorry, but I have hard time considering a suburb with a $70,000 income as being ghetto or bad. I live in Harvey for cry sake, and Matteson is not even close to being a bad town. Beside the depressing mall, Matteson is quiet for the most part when it comes to violent crime. My older relative live in Matteson and her part is quiet and peaceful. And beside, the suburb has increase in population over since 2000, so its not that bad of a suburb.

[At1WithNature]

Originally Posted by Chicagoland60426

Matteson is not ghetto or bad in my opinion. I'm sorry, but I have hard time considering a suburb with a $70,000 income as being ghetto or bad. I live in Harvey for cry sake, and Matteson is not even close to being a bad town. Beside the depressing mall, Matteson is quiet for the most part when it comes to violent crime. My older relative live in Matteson and her part is quiet and peaceful. And beside, the suburb has increase in population over since 2000, so its not that bad of a suburb.

$70,000 income??? see, don't be fooled by the new area that borders Frankfort, IL. this totally skews the numbers. This is the area west of the trailer parks/West of Ridgeland Ave.

If you consider the homes that have been in Matteson for the past 30-70 years...they are pretty ghetto. This is the area that borders Park Forest by the train stations. East of Governor's Highway plus North of the Fire Station right across the street from the Auto Mall.

Plus, what makes Matteson appear worse than many other suburbs in the Chicagoland area is the kinds of people who traffic the area and go to the Dominick's, KFC's and Lincoln Mall stores. These people are from Chicago Heights, Park Forest, etc. Not exactly the best citizens the area has to offer.

Also, the apartments north of lincoln highway behind the Burger King are very ghetto. i know this because a couple of my friends, Geno and Napoleon, moved in there after high school and got their apartment invaded (at gunpoint - a shotgun) twice.

Maybe all towns have their bad areas but if you take out the new homes constructed on Frankfort's eastern border, then Matteson is sort of like Country Club Hills meaning it used be pretty nice with pretty nice homes but has gone south the past 10 years or so. It's not Harvey bad but who is to say it won't be in the near future?

It's most definently not a Cal City or a Riverdale but it's not Orland Park either. The question is where do you draw the line?