[ardecila]

Yeah I think Elmhurst aspires to something like downtown Oak Park with a liberal dash of downtown Naperville.

Culturally it sits in this sweet spot of having rising incomes but not yet too stuffy and old-money like Hinsdale or Clarendon. I know quite a few people including my cousin and her husband who wanted access to decent suburban schools without moving to a cornfield. Elmhurst is a nice balance of being dead center in Chicagoland with good access to the city, airports and other job centers. (I've also seen young parents moving to Skokie... similar factors I guess but the downtown is a snoozefest)