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Larry M
right now myself and three children are living in a small two bedroom apartment and i want to rent a house i seen some nice rent to own houses on craigslist in bolingbrook and was wondering what the schools and everyday life there are like im going to drive out there to see but would like other opinions THANK YOU !
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If you like a suburban setting, Bollingbrook is a nice area. It is near Naperville and there is a lot going on there for the suburbanite. I am of the belief that the schools there are probably better than the schools closer to Chicago.
If you like a suburban setting, Bollingbrook is a nice area. It is near Naperville and there is a lot going on there for the suburbanite. I am of the belief that the schools there are probably better than the schools closer to Chicago.
10pts! Can somebody help me with the setting of my story?
LoveStar
Ok, I want my story to take place in Chicago where the main characters live in a creepy, old apartment a few miles (but not in the ghetto/slums) away from the city. Is such a location possible in Chicago? And would it be on the south side of Chicago?
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I recently wrote a piece where Chicago was the backdrop. I utilized wikipedia first and then jumped to the reference links at the bottom in order to get really specific. One thing I learned was that Chicago is a city. One single City and a small one at that. The trains are elevated and run in a loop around the city. Now the city has hotels and skyscrapers that have condos and apartments inside of them yet homes and neighborhoods are outside of Chicago.
--- Each of the neighborhoods have a history of immigrants of one type or another from Russian to Irish to Italian. Each history for each neighborhood plays a role in the construction of the city or some interesting events in the growth of the city. Migration is another mitigating factor, as the city grew people moved further into the surrounding suburban neighborhoods, Wicker Park for instance seemed to have an incredible boom of authors and artists and architects. To this day the homes are maintained and can be visited on a walking tour.
--- Granted depending on how long you've been writing you may not understand how these intricacies affect your story. My character is raised in a housing project 'the ghetto' however when she first moved there the neighborhood was actually built for middle class working families with cute small homes that were brand new. As more and more people needed cheaper housing the houses were redesigned and made into track housing and eventually a large apartment complex which became the infamous Cabrini Green. the track houses just across were the Robert Taylor projects. the entire neighborhood was prone to violence but was once for upwardly mobile families just starting out.
-- During my research I found that both projects have been completely obliterated as well as several of the loop trains that ran through those neighborhoods. I also found out that gang violence is more prevalant and that the Chicago Mobs are all about gone, which were both needed for my story so I had to go in a different direction.
--- As you go along draw yourself a map of the area you select. Millenium Mile is the shopping hall down the middle of Chicago. It is also surrounded by water which is why the temps are so cold. Illinois is the state and has several beltways that make travel from suburbia into Chicago easy. A large percentage of the buildings that have recently been built change hands often because of the high rents and the inability to find businesses able to move in and maintain their bottom line. Check the Black building Trump and Verizon towers I believe.
--- My brother lives in Evanston it is about 20 outside of Chicago he lives in a small one bedroom apartment in a well kept but old apartment building. It's sort of creepy to me because it's kind of like a railroad flat so it's pretty dim down the center.
--- Anyway you could always drop by a travel agency and get a pamphlet or the library and copy a few pages from a travel guide. To me those are the best because they give you tourist traps, restaurants, hotels, theatre, walking tours with maps, driving instructions (so major and minor roads) and break downs of all the areas and what they are most famous for and their biggest attractions.
I recently wrote a piece where Chicago was the backdrop. I utilized wikipedia first and then jumped to the reference links at the bottom in order to get really specific. One thing I learned was that Chicago is a city. One single City and a small one at that. The trains are elevated and run in a loop around the city. Now the city has hotels and skyscrapers that have condos and apartments inside of them yet homes and neighborhoods are outside of Chicago.
--- Each of the neighborhoods have a history of immigrants of one type or another from Russian to Irish to Italian. Each history for each neighborhood plays a role in the construction of the city or some interesting events in the growth of the city. Migration is another mitigating factor, as the city grew people moved further into the surrounding suburban neighborhoods, Wicker Park for instance seemed to have an incredible boom of authors and artists and architects. To this day the homes are maintained and can be visited on a walking tour.
--- Granted depending on how long you've been writing you may not understand how these intricacies affect your story. My character is raised in a housing project 'the ghetto' however when she first moved there the neighborhood was actually built for middle class working families with cute small homes that were brand new. As more and more people needed cheaper housing the houses were redesigned and made into track housing and eventually a large apartment complex which became the infamous Cabrini Green. the track houses just across were the Robert Taylor projects. the entire neighborhood was prone to violence but was once for upwardly mobile families just starting out.
-- During my research I found that both projects have been completely obliterated as well as several of the loop trains that ran through those neighborhoods. I also found out that gang violence is more prevalant and that the Chicago Mobs are all about gone, which were both needed for my story so I had to go in a different direction.
--- As you go along draw yourself a map of the area you select. Millenium Mile is the shopping hall down the middle of Chicago. It is also surrounded by water which is why the temps are so cold. Illinois is the state and has several beltways that make travel from suburbia into Chicago easy. A large percentage of the buildings that have recently been built change hands often because of the high rents and the inability to find businesses able to move in and maintain their bottom line. Check the Black building Trump and Verizon towers I believe.
--- My brother lives in Evanston it is about 20 outside of Chicago he lives in a small one bedroom apartment in a well kept but old apartment building. It's sort of creepy to me because it's kind of like a railroad flat so it's pretty dim down the center.
--- Anyway you could always drop by a travel agency and get a pamphlet or the library and copy a few pages from a travel guide. To me those are the best because they give you tourist traps, restaurants, hotels, theatre, walking tours with maps, driving instructions (so major and minor roads) and break downs of all the areas and what they are most famous for and their biggest attractions.
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