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Originally Posted by ardecila
Suburban Chicagoland does actually contain a *lot* of good-bones urbanism. Walkable street grids extend for miles and miles. Most of it is locked up in single-family zoning, but many of those downtowns around Metra stations are encouraging TOD.
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Yeah, the traditional pre-war railroad burbs centered around the legacy metra lines are WAY better than 99% of post-war American suburbia. I grew up in one of them.
But as you pointed out, Schaumburg is definitely not one of them, and perhaps more than any other major burb in Chicagoland, it epitomizes everything that was stupid and wrong about post-war full-on auto-centric community design. That's why I found this article so amusing.
I mean, the premise becomes very vaguely plausible if you were talking about Evanston or Arlington Heights or Elmhurst or wherever, but freaking Schaumburg out-citying the city?!?!?!?
no.