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Old 02-03-2011, 09:26 PM
 
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A lot of transplants have moved to Bradley and Bourbonais over the past 20 years. These cities are further north than Kankakee. In fact, the exit from Bradley to exit from Kankakee is about 5+ minutes away. Most people out there work on the Southern end of the region. One of my professors at Chicago State lives out in Bradley.
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:12 AM
 
Location: South Chicagoland
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A lot of transplants have moved to Bradley and Bourbonais over the past 20 years. These cities are further north than Kankakee. In fact, the exit from Bradley to exit from Kankakee is about 5+ minutes away. Most people out there work on the Southern end of the region. One of my professors at Chicago State lives out in Bradley.
Yep, Bradly, Bourbonais and Kankakee come together and kinda form an island surrounded by cornfields. It's funny because I called the Best Buy in Bourbonais to ask when they closed and the answering machine said "You've reached Best Buy in Kankakee."

Although it should be recognized that Aroma Park and Momence are just outside of this island but there are still a few cornfields in between.

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Old 02-04-2011, 02:51 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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If you consider suburbia to "end" when you start to see a significant amount of unincorporated, undeveloped farmland (that isn't a village/county nature preserve), suburbia ends on the North just north of Libertyville/Mundelin, and in the Southeast, it ends at the Southeastern edge of Portage, IN.
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Old 02-04-2011, 07:37 PM
 
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My brother lives in Pleasant Prairie (next to Kenosha), and it's population is definitely counted as part of Chicago's metro. Because of this, Milwaukee can't count it's population as part of the Milwaukee metro.
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Old 02-05-2011, 11:31 AM
 
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If you consider suburbia to "end" when you start to see a significant amount of unincorporated, undeveloped farmland (that isn't a village/county nature preserve), suburbia ends on the North just north of Libertyville/Mundelin, and in the Southeast, it ends at the Southeastern edge of Portage, IN.
I agree. I've worked in Gurnee a few years ago, and I consider it more exurban "Chiwaukee" as it is just about half between the two cities. Its much more difficult to define where suburbia ends in the far north suburbs, as it is you have much more isolated patches of built up area mixed with sonme farms from central lake county through Kenosha county.

Whereas where the west and south suburbs end: its a bit more clear.
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Old 02-05-2011, 11:49 AM
 
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I agree. I've worked in Gurnee a few years ago, and I consider it more exurban "Chiwaukee" as it is just about half between the two cities. Its much more difficult to define where suburbia ends in the far north suburbs, as it is you have much more isolated patches of built up area mixed with sonme farms from central lake county through Kenosha county.

Whereas where the west and south suburbs end: its a bit more clear.
Along Lake Michigan, it's built up, though.
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Old 02-05-2011, 01:55 PM
 
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Actually Bourbonnais has a more suburban character than Gary or Kenosha. But it still has a lot of nearby agriculture so maybe it is a future suburb.
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Old 02-05-2011, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Twilight zone
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I agree. I've worked in Gurnee a few years ago, and I consider it more exurban "Chiwaukee" as it is just about half between the two cities. Its much more difficult to define where suburbia ends in the far north suburbs, as it is you have much more isolated patches of built up area mixed with sonme farms from central lake county through Kenosha county.

Whereas where the west and south suburbs end: its a bit more clear.
Yeah, plenty of Wisconsin Licence plates in Six Flags.
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Old 02-05-2011, 07:15 PM
 
Location: Southwest Suburbs
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Just wondering. Looking into the Chicagoland area and just wondering if these two are Chicago suburbs depsite being in a different state.
No

Some people have loose definition and would consider them suburbs just because there in the metro. The census divides Chicagoland into three divisions and Northwest Indiana is in the Gary division. A lot of folks will say "well Gary is closer to Chicago compared to Joliet''. The thing is I don't really see Joliet as a true suburb either. Maybe it has something to do with the amount of empty land seperating it from the rest of suburbia. Look on a map and Joliet boundaries are sort of easy to point out since its not that well integrated with the rest of suburbia.

I been thinking this for a while, as Chicagolanders we should have the mindset of Californians and East Coasters(maybe) towards these satelite cities. I never heard Snoop Dogg refer to his hometown of Long Beach as a suburb of LA. How many people from Newark and Jersey City folks really see themselves as suburbanites? And getting back at Gary, Michael Jackson is from there. From my memory and till his death, MJ and reporters always said he's from Gary. Gary has an identity that of a city and before its economic crash, many people worked in Gary.

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Old 02-05-2011, 11:43 PM
 
Location: A Cultural Backwater
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I used to live in Kenosha, and would consider both it and Gary to be suburbs of Chicago, but both of them traditionally had their own identities. From my experience, most of the "locals" in Kenosha (the ones who had grown up there and lived there all of their lives) tended to identify more with Milwaukee and the rest of Wisconsin. Because of that, they tended to include in their social circles only those whom they had known when they were growing up.

Those who moved in from elsewhere tended to be from Illinois or other states, and would identify more with Chicago, and would be more socially receptive to others like them who had moved there from somewhere else.

Kenosha is in a location that can receive both Chicago and Milwaukee stations on its cable system, so people have a choice which they want to watch. They also of course receive radio stations from both cities, as well as having a couple of radio stations right in town.
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