Need suggestions for suburbs that are not boring bedroom communites, besides Oak Park, Evanston

[urza216]

Originally Posted by suburban_boy

With that said, why aren't most of the South Suburbs east of 57 considered bedroom communities?

I was defining bedroom community as a suburb where a large percentage of the population commutes to the city for work. This is possibly a better description of Homewood and Flossmoor than any other towns in my area because a lot of the people who live there work for the University of Chicago.

[meatpuff]

The premise I guess is bedroom communities are places with lots of residents but few jobs.

If you want to get really serious about identifying anti-bedroom communities -- suburbs with lots of jobs and few residents -- Chicago's got 'em. Oakbrook Terrace and Bedford Park would be good choices. McCook, IL probably takes the cake though. It is loaded with factories but has the lowest municipal population in Cook County at 254.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by meatpuff

McCook, IL probably takes the cake though. It is loaded with factories but has the lowest municipal population in Cook County at 254.

That is shocking to me. I wonder how their democracy functions? Is it dominated by industrial interests?

[suburban_boy]

Originally Posted by urza216

I was defining bedroom community as a suburb where a large percentage of the population commutes to the city for work. This is possibly a better description of Homewood and Flossmoor than any other towns in my area because a lot of the people who live there work for the University of Chicago.

I know I'm nit picking a little, but I don't think that H/F is more of a bedroom community than the other South Suburban cities. Most people in the South Suburbs work in the city. I know a lot of people in CC Hills and Hazel Crest who work for CTA, UIC and CPS. A good majority of the people I know work downtown. The Homewood/Flossmoor trains aren't exclusively used by those residents. Most people Living along, 175th, 183rd, Flossmoor and Vollmer Rd east of I-57 to about I-94 also gets on the train at Homewood and Flossmoor. The vast majority of those residents work in the city. Very few of them actually work in the South Suburbs.