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Plainfield, IL vs Evanston, IL

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Evanston has been positive.
- Evanston has 0.8% less unemployment than Plainfield.
- Evanston job growth has increased by 4.5% in the past 10 years.

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 Plainfield, ILEvanston, ILUnited States
 Current Unemployment5.0%5.8%6.0%
 Future Job Growth31.2%26.6%33.5%
 Recent Job Growth-9.5%-9.4%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-7.8%-10.1%-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth-3.1%-9.9%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth7.8%-4.5%6.3%

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Reviews for Plainfield    13 Reviews

Over 10 years ago

Plenty of housing in Plainfield, Joliet, IL area but norm on rent for a three bedroom house is around $2000.00  More

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Over 11 years ago

We transferred from the East Coast to Chicagoland and did not know where to live....We have kids and did NOT want the excess (read Drug Problems) in Naperville....Our  More

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Over 11 years ago

Plainfield is a good place to live, housing is descent, low crime.   More

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Reviews for Evanston    20 Reviews

Over 5 years ago

be sure to take pictures of where you park... Full-scale parking scam going on in this town. They purposely obscure self-pay parking signs. Nine out of 10 visitors  More

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I've lived here for two years for school. Terrible place for students. Northwestern is a great school/campus, but the city itself is NOT student friendly. Everything  More

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Aside from everything else mentioned on this site about the bad aspects of Evanston - bot be overlooked is the NOISE. The People's Republic of Evanston CATERS to the  More

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ZIPS IN PLAINFIELD, ILLINOIS
60585
ZIPS IN EVANSTON, ILLINOIS
60201 60202

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