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Originally Posted by JerichoHW
It might come as a shock to downstaters but transportation in Chicago is so flawed that without money from Springfield, it would soon cease to exist. I also have real feelings for Downstaters I actually feel that a law should be created to stop sprawl from Chicago from going past Kankakee to the south and Rockford to the west. I also find it sad that Rural areas, are viewed as out of touch and that younger people leave there smaller hometowns.
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Oh believe me, we know! There has been a steady, and ever increasing amount of Chicagoland transplants into central Illinios the past ten years, and all of us that used to live there are very much aware of the current situtation up north. I have also heard that cities like LaSalle/Peru and Ottawa have actually already started to prepare to deal with Chicagoland sprawl before it becomes to out of hand, by simply putting ordinances in place to keep it from growing beyond what it can handle. Gee, there's a thought!
Chicagoland's obcession with sprawl though has got to end sometime, and I guess it will take the greater encompassing central Illinois area to say, 'Enough is enough!" I never thought that I would see the day when towns as far removed from Chicago as
Morris would be considered the fringes of "Chicagoland", but here we are, and it isn't going to get any better folks. What we are effectivly seeing now is the combined forces of Aurora, Joliet, and Naperville spreading out at a rapid pace, and taking on a radius that is staggering. Just thirty years ago I can remeber people driving out in Will County from Chicago, and trully feeling like they were waaaaaaay out there. Heck, my home in Downer's Grove was considered the "sticks". Now, there is no seperation, and that was just thirty years ago!! It is just plain scary to think what Chicagoland will look like in another thirty. My gosh, there isn't a single place within Dupage County to build one new apartment!! Look how fast that happened. I hope Chicago is happy that as it continues to gobble up all of those precious acres with plastic cookie-cutter tract homes, that they are also taking away some of the most fertile soil on the face of the planet!!!!!! And yet we are the uneducated ones!!!!???? Education down in these here parts may not be what it is on Kenilworth, but by golly, at least we know that the world's richest soil, is more important than a flippn' strip mall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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