What's Going To Happen To Flossmoor?? (Naperville, Orland Park: homes, established neighborhood, buying)

[drss01]

Originally Posted by prospectivebuyer

Kadner: L-Way District 210's financial decline shocking - Daily Southtown

Everything I said in my post is true.

Lincolnway 210 is 4 high schools. Many school districts are on the states financial watch list. The school that closed is lincolnway north which served mostly unincorporated frankfort. Lincolnway east which is across from my subdivision (frankfort proper) is where my kids will go and is a nationally ranked high school w excellent academics and athletics as I wrote out in the post u quoted.

New home construction continues to rise. Frankfort is doing just fine.

[4122]

Originally Posted by Dr. Blish

Why not let the boundaries be changed to allow students from Matteson, Country Club Hills, and Richton Park attend since enrollment numbers are down?

This would actually be a good idea. Country Club Hills is too far away from the Lincoln Way schools. White flight won't happen if they only let a some of Matteson and Richton Park attend Lincoln Way schools. They should let Matteson west of I-57 and Richton Park between I-57 and Cicero avenue. They should also have a big chunk of Homer Glen in the boundaries too, since Lockport HS is overcrowded. This make actually decrease the white flight. Better schools=more people wanting to move to Matteson/Richton Park which will help the area be more desirable and more students in Lincoln Way schools= more $ for the district.

[deanpear]

Franfort is a nice place, and Tinley Park used to be a nice place.

10 years Frankfort is Tinley - which is to say get ready to send your kids to private school and pay public school taxes. The demo change is from east to west and that hole frankfort square is the diving board.

In the southland you are better off staying north and west e.g. Lemont, Palos height, Palos park, homer glen, etc.

Frankfort wouldn't even make the top 5 of best southwest suburbs.

[Northwest Indiana]

Originally Posted by deanpear

Franfort is a nice place, and Tinley Park used to be a nice place.

10 years Frankfort is Tinley - which is to say get ready to send your kids to private school and pay public school taxes. The demo change is from east to west and that hole frankfort square is the diving board.

In the southland you are better off staying north and west e.g. Lemont, Palos height, Palos park, homer glen, etc.

Frankfort wouldn't even make the top 5 of best southwest suburbs.

Or maybe, I dunno...you can just not flee at the first sight of a black person...seems to have worked in many other "non-south/southwest" suburbs...funny...

[drss01]

Originally Posted by deanpear

Franfort is a nice place, and Tinley Park used to be a nice place.

10 years Frankfort is Tinley - which is to say get ready to send your kids to private school and pay public school taxes. The demo change is from east to west and that hole frankfort square is the diving board.

In the southland you are better off staying north and west e.g. Lemont, Palos height, Palos park, homer glen, etc.

Frankfort wouldn't even make the top 5 of best southwest suburbs.

Median home price in frankfort is 357k, median income is 113k. Yeah frankfort is a real ghetto. Laughable post. It is one of the top SW burbs.

[gregbuck]

Originally Posted by drss01

Median home price in frankfort is 357k, median income is 113k. Yeah frankfort is a real ghetto. Laughable post. It is one of the top SW burbs.

Frankfort is a nice suburb. But nothing symbolizes suburban tax dollar waste more than a 100 million dollar high school campus built in 2007 sitting vacant. I don't understand why they wouldn't choose to close one of the older high school campuses. Lincoln Way central was built in the 1950's. I am sure the district would save money on property maintenance closing an older high school. Unless there is another local school district that is willing to take on the newer campus and maybe recoup some of their loss that way. A new high school campus would definitely be a much needed upgrade for nearby rich township school district. All three of their high school campuses are old and out dated. I wouldn't be surprised if rich township wants it. Given how close lincoln way north is to matteson.

[Northwest Indiana]

Originally Posted by gregbuck

Frankfort is a nice suburb. But nothing symbolizes suburban tax dollar waste more than a 100 million dollar high school campus built in 2007 sitting vacant. I don't understand why they wouldn't choose to close one of the older high school campuses. Lincoln Way central was built in the 1950's. I am sure the district would save money on property maintenance closing an older high school. Unless there is another local school district that is willing to take on the newer campus and maybe recoup some of their loss that way. A new high school campus would definitely be a much needed upgrade for nearby rich township school district. All three of their high school campuses are old and out dated. I wouldn't be surprised if rich township wants it. Given how close lincoln way north is to matteson.

Regarding the last bolded part...I am sure Frankfort residents and the school district would rather torch the school than see students from Matteson and Richton Park attend there. I mean...when you look at the history of the area, many residents in the Lincoln-Way district moved there FROM Matteson and other south suburbs east of 57. This would definitely make them feel "encroached upon by them" in very PC terms lol.

[gregbuck]

Originally Posted by Northwest Indiana

Regarding the last bolded part...I am sure Frankfort residents and the school district would rather torch the school than see students from Matteson and Richton Park attend there. I mean...when you look at the history of the area, many residents in the Lincoln-Way district moved there FROM Matteson and other south suburbs east of 57. This would definitely make them feel "encroached upon by them" in very PC terms lol.

And there lies the irony. Because what other district is going to want a high school built in the corn fields. At volmer rd and harlem. Matteson's border is less than a block away. Three older high school campuses in rich 227. The expansion taking place in frankfort, new lenox always seemed a bit unrealistic to me. I guess, "If you build it they will come".

[drss01]

Originally Posted by gregbuck

And there lies the irony. Because what other district is going to want a high school built in the corn fields. At volmer rd and harlem. Matteson's border is less than a block away. Three older high school campuses in rich 227. The expansion taking place in frankfort, new lenox always seemed a bit unrealistic to me. I guess, "If you build it they will come".

It's bc they want to lease out north campus building to Joliet junior college or governor state university
My understanding those talks are taking place.

[drss01]

Originally Posted by gregbuck

And there lies the irony. Because what other district is going to want a high school built in the corn fields. At volmer rd and harlem. Matteson's border is less than a block away. Three older high school campuses in rich 227. The expansion taking place in frankfort, new lenox always seemed a bit unrealistic to me. I guess, "If you build it they will come".

Come take a ride through frankfort, construction is booming again and I'm not talking spec homes.
I find it impossible that the residents of D210 will change boundaries to include matteson, or sep
The building, that's out of the question the board has said as much. The district knows that will cause another white flight, I'm not saying that's justifiable but that's what will happen the board knows it. Hell it's the frankfort schools that axed a super Walmart from being built on Tinley land on Harlem, even tho Walmart offered huge prop tax revenue, the residents said hell no.