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Old 06-30-2007, 10:55 AM
 
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What can you tell me about the Northlake area. And the Franklin Park area.
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Old 07-01-2007, 01:07 PM
 
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Anybody? Anybody at all...
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Old 07-01-2007, 08:59 PM
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Location: Near West Burbs, IL
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Blue collar suburbs, northlake (esp north of north avenue) a bit nicer.
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Old 07-02-2007, 07:53 AM
 
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Very blue collar, lot of industrial. Kind of congested traffic wise, if I remember correctly. Near the airport so you would likely have to deal with O'Hare airport airplane noise.
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Old 07-13-2007, 07:37 PM
 
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Not a bad area. Lived there for 29 years. Middle class. They are really trying to clean up and update the homes in the areas. Airport noise..eeh ya dont even notice it after a while.
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Old 08-14-2007, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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It's a decent area. They are cleaning it up a bit...or trying to anyway. Because there are a lot of factories and industry, you get a lot of minimum wage workers in there. Not all of them are legal.

Schiller park, which is next door to Franklin Park, is doing a much better job at cleaning the area up. It is a nice, diverse community. The school are great. They've recently completely re-did the community pool and park (which turned out AWESOME!)

They are doing a lot of new construction, tho, which disturbs me. Any little square of land they find, they are putting some huge house/apt bldg on.

Shopping is close by, lots of activities for the kids (my kids are in their day camp program right now), easy access to either the city or the rest of the world. It's a hub for all the highways/tollways. you have 294 N & S, 90W & E, 290. These branch off to the other highways. No having to drive thru miles of suburbs to get to the highway. It's.right.there. LOVE it!

If we weren't moving out of state, I'd be looking to move back to Schiller Park (I grew up there and my parents still live there).
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Old 10-05-2016, 04:26 PM
 
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only 9 yrs too late. northlake, yup, lots of industry, blue collar. franklin park was pretty decent, I was 1 block from river grove, smaller brick homes, pretty quiet area, my neighbors were nice, it is always a crapshoot anyways. I did have a loud neighbor, late parties for his children, he was from mexico, never adjusted to the local area very well, then he moved.
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Old 10-05-2016, 06:27 PM
 
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Both are industrial suburbs, but especially Northlake (named after the two main roads that run through it). Franklin Park is a sizable employment center. An obscure tidbit: Mannheim (for which US 12/45 is named) was once a separate village until it was taken over by Franklin Park.
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Old 10-10-2016, 11:05 AM
 
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I grew up in Schiller Park and went to school in Franklin Park. Not bad blue collar suburbs. I don't see anything particularly desirable about living there but I would have no problem in doing so. Airplane noise. Some areas within these towns are nicer than others.
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