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Originally Posted by Ringo1
I see a lot of fit people in Chicago when I would visit my son. Even older people. He lived in a nice neighborhood, though, close to downtown and with stores/shops everywhere nearby. People walked everywhere. I spent most of my time there and downtown, of course, so I'm not sure about the suburbs.
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I am in suburban Chicago and it seems pretty fit compared to other places I’ve lived. I don’t know anyone who drives into the city to work. They all take the commuter Metra and then from the Metra, people typically try to walk to their destination from the train station unless it is too far a walk or they have health issues. I know of a lot of people who walk to the station on both ends. I think a coworker’s husband walks to the station in the morning and then walks a mile or two during the day to get to/from his office when the weather allows for it. I work in the suburbs, but from what I can tell, the people in this office are a lot more fitness oriented than they were in my last office in Jacksonville, Florida. There are a lot of good forest preserves for hiking/biking/running/walking in the suburbs that provide a variety of free recreation opportunities. We have one forest preserve with a stair workout area and some weekend mornings in good weather, they even have police directing traffic because it gets so popular. People in Chicago love their forest preserves.
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