Get to know your fellow Illinoisans

[runninfiend]

You make my point for me. You have to drive 20 or 30 or 40 miles in this direction or that to explore a small patch of natural beauty. In other parts of the country, you don't have to drive anywhere for it; it's all around you, and human development has worked around it instead of annihilating most of it.

It all depends how you define "natural beauty." It's all around where I live, seconds outside my door. My examples were of public tracts of land that anyone can access.

So you're planning on living in a condo in the middle of a national park? And saying "human development has worked around it" is an extremely broad statement. Feel free to give specifics.

[2beamissourian]

1) Where in IL do you currently live? Region or city, doesnt matter.
Jersey County Illinois - were that little curve right across from St. Charles Mo.
2) Do you like it there? Sometimes Depends on what angle you look at - [color="Magenta"][color="Magenta"]
3) Were you born in IL? If so, where? Yes Alton Illinois
4) If born out of state, how/why did you end up here. Do you like living here?
5) Whats your favorite city/town in the state?
6) Whats your favorite region of the state? I think where I am at now .. we have the rivers ,state park , lots of land marks.
7) What do you like least about the state?TAXES and Corruption
8) What do you like most about the state? Its home
9) Whats your favorite state park/recreation area in the state? Pere Marquette State Park in Grafton Illinois. This is where I rode a horse for the first time, Fished for the first time, Mushroomed the first time, Lots of first times here

and last but not least...

10) If you could move somewhere else, where would you like to go?
Missouri !

[BUalumni]

Originally Posted by Drover

Are you flipping kidding me? Chicago's lakefront is the most developed, unnatural lakefront just about anywhere in the Great Lakes. Manmade harbors, breakwalls, anti-erosion walls, piers, golf courses, manmade parks, reshaped by landfill, trucked-in sand for beaches, an eight-lane highway right offshore for crying out loud! This is your idea of natural beauty? What am I missing here?

I was just thinkin the same thing. One of those golf courses sits on right on top of an old landfill. During the fall who would know it, but during those lovely, unhumid Chicago summers the smell is bad. Nice use of space, bad for the nose!

[annantv]

1) Where in IL do you currently live? Region or city, doesnt matter.
Union County in southern IL

2) Do you like it there?
YES

3) Were you born in IL? If so, where?
Yes, Carbondale

4) If born out of state, how/why did you end up here. Do you like living here?
5) Whats your favorite city/town in the state?
Don't have one

6) Whats your favorite region of the state?
Southern

7) What do you like least about the state?
The governor

8) What do you like most about the state?
I'm in "the Heartland"

9) Whats your favorite state park/recreation area in the state?
Shawnee Hills

10) If you could move somewhere else, where would you like to go?
Smokey Mtns

[skyeINIL]

1) Where in IL do you currently live? Lansing, IL
2) Do you like it there? It'll do for now.
3) Were you born in IL? If so, where? Yes, South Side of Chicago
4) If born out of state, how/why did you end up here. Do you like living here? n/a
5) Whats your favorite city/town in the state? Chicago
6) Whats your favorite region of the state? Don't have one.
7) What do you like least about the state? Chicago Cubs
8) What do you like most about the state? Chicago
9) Whats your favorite state park/recreation area in the state? Don't have one. I go to Turkey Run in Indiana.
10) If you could move somewhere else, where would you like to go? Maine