What is Chicago's Prettiest Suburb? (Naperville, Evanston: real estate, hotels, housing)

[nanannie]

Originally Posted by ccjarider

That is pretty funny. As a lifelong cheesehead I know how WI'nites hate being thought of as Chicago's slow suburb to the north. Or worse yet Chicago's playground.

Well, isnt it the truth?

[thePR]

Originally Posted by ccjarider

That is pretty funny. As a lifelong cheesehead I know how WI'nites hate being thought of as Chicago's slow suburb to the north. Or worse yet Chicago's playground.

Illinois' largest State Park? I know someone from Wisconsin that calls it that jokingly.

[SBD]

I love Wisconsin...used to canoe and kayak the winding Kickapoo River every year. Great, realxing, inexpensive getaway.

[jessiKur]

Oak Park, Forest Park, Naperville... I think they're good lookin'. Forest Park has nice houses. But I'm kinda biased towards those areas.

[Justabystander]

I can name alot of places that are beautiful in a unique way: Glencoe, Winnetka, Lake Forest, River Forest, Oak Park, Hinsdale, Glen Ellyn, Geneva, St. Charles, Palos Park, Long Grove. Unfortunately, the one thing that they have in common is that they are expensive to live in............

[Lookout Kid]

Forest Park? Perhaps you can point me to a nice block in that town. Most of what I've seen there is pretty bleak, with the exception of the nice commercial strip on Madison Street. The cemetaries are nice, I guess!

I'm not ripping Forest Park, just wondering where the nice areas are. I've never seen them while looking on my own.

[David Hammond]

Bensenville is up there.

[Nysee53]

Glencoe, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Lake Forest, Wilmette, Evanston, Glenview, Oak Park, and Miller Beach area of Gary, IN.

[Paige65]

Originally Posted by Nysee53

Glencoe, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Lake Forest, Wilmette, Evanston, Glenview, Oak Park, and Miller Beach area of Gary, IN.

Serious question. Why would you list every single town going up the North Shore - Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, (fill in the missing suburb here), and Lake Forest? We're talking about topography here, nothing else. All of Highland Park, east of GBR, looks pretty much the same as the rest of the NS and has plenty of the ravines (think Ravinia) that you claim to love.

[60-minutes-II]

kenilworth, lake forest, vernon hills, barrington hills, and thats really all the beautiful towns there are in the north and northwest areas of chicago.