Anyone here from Rockford, IL?

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Smolek
Rockford is a few hours south of Chicago

Wasn't last time I drove through it

Ausm

 

[agnitrate]

Originally posted by: Citation

Both Agnitrate and I are from Palatine.

We're e-friends.

-silver

 

[Citation]

You wish you were my e-friend..........die..........



-Cit

 

[astroview]

Cool, my family lives in Prospect Heights, I'm in the city right now.

Back to the main issue, I'm not sure if there is much in Rockford thats really fun or high quality. Althought I bet it would be dirt cheap to live there, but you'd be stuck in a not too nice area.

 

[agnitrate]

Originally posted by: astroview
Cool, my family lives in Prospect Heights, I'm in the city right now.

Back to the main issue, I'm not sure if there is much in Rockford thats really fun or high quality. Althought I bet it would be dirt cheap to live there, but you'd be stuck in a not too nice area.

Cool. You're pretty close. I won't be back in Palatine for another 2 weeks though. I miss suburbia Nowheresville, IN is nothing compared to the burbs of Chicago. Indy is pretty nice though

I haven't been to Rockford in about 3 years so I'll take everybody else's word for it on whether it's a decent place to live or not.

Keep the info coming!

-silver

 

[Citation]

Don't they have magic waters??? I think that is about the only thing that I can remember that is commonly associated with rockford.


-Rez

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: astroview
Cool, my family lives in Prospect Heights, I'm in the city right now.

Back to the main issue, I'm not sure if there is much in Rockford thats really fun or high quality. Althought I bet it would be dirt cheap to live there, but you'd be stuck in a not too nice area.

Actually there are some really nice area's of the town. The cost of the houses are really cheap. But they have really high taxes.

 

[RichieZ]

I live in Evanston (go to Northwestern) where exactly is Rockford? Haha its my soph yr and I still dont' kno jack about IL, cali forever! 2 more weeks till spring break, woot

 

[astroview]

Not much in IL to know outside Chicago and its suburbs. Might annoy the people in Peoria, Rockford, Springfield, wherever, but without Chicago this state is just Iowa.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: astroview
Not much in IL to know outside Chicago and its suburbs. Might annoy the people in Peoria, Rockford, Springfield, wherever, but without Chicago this state is just Iowa.

Champaign-Urbana is mighty nice . . ..

<---- Is stuck in Bloomington-Normal with U of I envy

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: astroview
Not much in IL to know outside Chicago and its suburbs. Might annoy the people in Peoria, Rockford, Springfield, wherever, but without Chicago this state is just Iowa.

Champaign-Urbana is mighty nice . . ..

<---- Is stuck in Bloomington-Normal with U of I envy

B-N would be a nice town if they hadn't planned so poorly with Veterans Parkway. Good GAWD is that a mess. It ruins the entire town.

BTW, I'm in Cham-bana. Champaign is nice, Urbana is a slum and a perfect testament to what anti-business liberalism leads to.

Chicago is the main reason why we are the only Midwestern state with the most draconian gun-grabbing laws imaginable. Wisconson can have it.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: redly1
I'm looking for some first hand info on Rockford IL. anyone from there?

EDIT: just looking for some opinions of the town, what's it like, businesses and such

I live in a Dekalb that is just south of rockford but i used to live there.

Well the town is nice. IF you chose the right area to live. houses are cheap but the taxes are really high. not to mention the public school system is crap. I would NOT have my kids go to school there.

The businesses are great. you have a really good mall on the eastern side of town. Its really in a small town called cherry valley but close enough.

hey! i live in sycamore!

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: redly1
I'm looking for some first hand info on Rockford IL. anyone from there?

EDIT: just looking for some opinions of the town, what's it like, businesses and such

I live in a Dekalb that is just south of rockford but i used to live there.

Well the town is nice. IF you chose the right area to live. houses are cheap but the taxes are really high. not to mention the public school system is crap. I would NOT have my kids go to school there.

The businesses are great. you have a really good mall on the eastern side of town. Its really in a small town called cherry valley but close enough.

hey! i live in sycamore!

i actually live in sycamore but people know Dekalb because of NIU. well i live behind the the lost mine. not in the trailer park! heh

 

[civad]

I used to live in Champaign, IL for a while ( wasting my time in Grad School at the U of I) and now I am in CT.
I once interviewed with a company in Rockfordat 9 AM . The next day I had another job interview at Libertyville (North of Chi)at 10 AM. On day one, while returning from Rockford, drove around the area to 'get to know it' Spent the night at the rest area near Kankakee on 57. On day two, after the interview, spent the rest of the day exploring the 'burbs. Nice places.

All this talk about Rockford reminded me of those wonderful days.......

 

A little late.....but I'm from rockford.
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So did you end up moving here?

 

[astroview]

jntdesign, not sure if you know or not, but we're having a Chicago ATOT meetup, check the sticky.

 

[stormbv]

Originally posted by: astroview
Not much in IL to know outside Chicago and its suburbs. Might annoy the people in Peoria, Rockford, Springfield, wherever, but without Chicago this state is just Iowa.

:brokenheart: