Ok, you can take the boy outta chicago but u cant take the Chicago out of the boy.

Anyway. Forget Chicago and its suburbs.

Outside of Chicago, what small towns have u lived in? It could be like an actual small town of 1000 people, or it could be like a small city, I'm talkin a place like Peoria, Champaign, SPringfield, Effingham. I am NOT talkin about St Louis, Indy, etc. Those are mid-sized Major League cities. I'm talkin small rural towns or C-market towns such as Normal, Lansing (MI), Madison, etc. Minor League cities u might say.

How did u like those places compared to Chicago?

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Well, we haven't gotten, what is your mother's maiden name yet.

I was born in a small town...

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GO BEARS!!!

I'm getting that feeling now.

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Like I said, Keeping Score vibe...

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He also always posts in the middle of the night. Maybe he lives in Ukraine.

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A lot of the Catholic parishes in Chicago were like small towns. (And yes, being like a small town could be both positive and negative, but they're gone and it's not coming back, which can make living in the world slightly unsettling if you were raised in one and were deeply involved in its life.) They had very clear boundaries and a sense of identity, both of which, again, can be amazingly positive (sense of community) and unbelievably negative (conformity, myopia, common wisdom on race).

I'm glad I am gone, but I wish I were back.

I mean all that seriously, but here comes the hilarious punchline, as it were ==> Plus, the no Jews thing meant that I was always one of the smartest kids in my grade without really having to try, though it would have been nice to have some intellectual conversation on the end of the bench during basketball and football games. It's a give and take, you know?

Whether or not neighborhoods in the suburbs are or were like that, I don't know, but it would be interesting to hear.

I don't think you know what a small town is.

When I was in grade school, our Social Studies class did a census of the town....from memory.

And I didn't even live in that town. I was too far away.

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Got nothing against a big town...

when the big town in area is sub 8k and a half hour away and you have to run to a Sub 1k town for a shit IGA grocery store or a Casey’s... but I live in the country not the town. Sub 200 in the town...ship.

...or in Hawaii (allegedly).

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Not a mult.

He doesn't. Not suprising seeing he can't figure out google.

Bozeman MT from August 2005 thru May 2007. Im sure its grown substantially since then.



2005.

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Wait...

That's awesome...

None. (Surprise surprise)

But, like many neighborhood kids, I always got stuck on extended stays down south every summer. I have refused to go back to Marion or Greensboro, Alabama for decades.

I hated the places so much that driving home I probably was over 110 mph most of the drive home.

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Since you moved out of it?

That tracks.

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Still hayseed enough to say look who's in the big town.

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So, I was out there from 96-2000 and visited in 2007 I think and it had grown a lot.. my dad visited me and told,me he had visited in the 80’s and there was almost zero resemblance.

I’ll probably die in a small town and that’s probably where they’ll bury me.

Probably in a shallow grave. Please alert the authorities.

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When I had the farm the nearest grocery store was 25 minutes away. The nearest town was 300 people supposedly but they must have been scattered around. Only was there for a year though.

Algonquin had 1500 people back in the mid 70s. Had to go to Crystal Lake for more than gas or booze.

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My grade school had 68 kids K-8. My Dad went to a one-room school house in the '30s. His teacher was my First Grade teacher.

The town had 109 people in it. One bank. 3 bars, a grain elevator, and a curling rink. I lived 10 minutes from that town.

We were a 25-minute drive from a grocery store. Pizza delivery didn't exist.

Going to college was like going to another planet.

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Established towns(before suburb creep) Aurora, Elgin, and Joliet were like that.

The same is true about Atlanta from the 80s .

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Linn, Missouri. Foothills of the Ozarks, 100 miles west of St. Louis. It would be a one-stoplight town if it were an actual red-yellow-green light, but it was just one of those 4-way stop flashing reds. The pizza place was combined with the video rental and the tire store was combined with the liquor store. I once had to shovel the gravel patch that counted as a driveway with a dustpan and the lid of a Rubbermaid bin because the gas station and the Dollar General both sold out of shovels.

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I have lived in 5 cities in my life. Biggest: Mexico City. Smallest: Urbana.

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I have been in and out of Dwight, IL my entire life, but never lived there.

My mom's, and my wife's ancestors are from there.

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I'd say that there were small towns within the city of Chicago. I grew up and lived in Hegewisch which was as small town as it got. A Polish and Slovak area. Many of the older folks never left the neighborhood. I'll never forget Aniols Hardware where you could buy any color of paint that you wanted as long as it was white, green, blue, brown, or red. And if you needed a part to fix a light fixture that was made in 1917, they'd have it in the "back room".

Talk about the "Neighborhood Watch" program.. It started in Hegewisch where all of the people in the neighborhood looked out their front window or sat on their front porch WATCHING everyone else do whatever. And oh boy, if there was a stranger in the neighborhood, the alarm went out to the citzenry And if some man entered the widow Klutcher's home that her neighbor didn't know, there were phone calls exchanged all over the block and the rumor mill was activated.

The other thing about Hegewisch was that everyone worked. It was either the Ford plant, the steel mills, or the port. And there was only one car per family pretty much. IF a kid had to get anywhere, he either walked or took his bike because "DAD NEEDED THE CAR" to go to work or help someone fix something.

The social live for the kids was pretty much based on Mann Park and the small restaurants and pizza places. For the adults there were the small bars around town and the churches and social clubs around the town. But everything was in the town. My mom liked to knit and crochet and she had her ladies clubs and small circle of friends of like interests. But my dad? He was always working at the mill and taking care of fixing stuff for us, his brothers and sisters and good friends.

As for me and my friends, we usually met at the park and did what young kids did. We pretty much were always on our own. Played a lot of baseball in the summer, pick up basketball and football in the winter, had our fist fights, and tried to impress the girls with our general bullshit and showing off. We all went to church and I remember how great a young priest at our parish was, Father Thomas. He organized many sports teams for the kids of the parish and we went around and played other parish teams in the area. THAT was a big deal. I remember once that we traveled all the way to Dyer, Indiana to play some team there. ANd after those games, he'd take us all out to McDonalds and buy us all hamburgers and fries.

Yeah. Hegewisch was a small town in every respect. And I am sure there are other small towns all over Chicago. Simple hard working people with their faults and values. Haven't been back there for a long time. Next trip back, I'm going to make a point of it. I'll bet a lot of it hasn't changed appreciably. Kind of a town that time forgot.

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