Interested in moving to IL, but not sure which town is right for me.

[BUalumni]

Originally Posted by Newbigtech

Stay away from Pekin, Peoria. Backwards... always backwards. Taxes are high, Pollution is all over the place. It's like walking into the Twilight Zone and not having Rod Searling as your guide.

Pollution? What are you talking about. Yes, Pekin has the most redkneck south end I have ever seen before in my life!, and yes there is a big filthy factory situated on the other side of 29. But the town does not encirlce it, and instead all the growth has taken off on the opposite end. In fact it has grown so much that it is hard to see were Groveland ends and Pekin begins in some areas. The other eye catcher is the big power facility even farther out of Pekin that supplies power to Chicago. If that facility is out, you can say goodbye Shaumburg. Take a drive in the lower portion of Sunset Hills, or in the Lake Whitehurst area and tell me that people are not wanting to live there. Pekin was rated as one of the best places to play golf in the nation by the PGA. We all know how they like to play golf in backwards cities. Most of the redkneck stigma comes from the towns that feed into Pekin like South Pekin and the very REAL backwards town of Creve Coeur. Now that is backwards!

Where is Peoria's pollution again? There is one factory on the extreme south end, almost in Bartonville, that looks imposing more than polluting. Plus, if we didn't have that nasty looking building, Peoria's ag program would suffer greatly. If you never went on that side of town, (and I don't know why you would), you would never even know it was there unless you saw it on a clear day from East Peoria. Sure there is a depressed south end of both Pekin and Peoria, but isn't interesting that those areas are all around those "heavily polluted" areas that you are talking about. Anything that Pekin and Peoria have going for them are located at complete opposite ends of town.