Bus. Week article - Best Affordable Burbs in Midwe
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5/24/2007
This is from the Business Week article Best Affordable Suburbs in the Midwest. My point is to be careful what you read. A 40 minute drive to the city? Maybe at 3:00 in the morning. Rural scenery? Drive down Rand Road and tell me that's "Rural". What non-sense!
You could do far worse than Lake Zurich, Ill., a village of about 19,000 residents roughly a 40-minute drive northwest from the Windy City. "It's a great place to raise a family," says Sadie Winter, a realtor with Century 21 Premier Properties in neighboring Glenview, Ill. "It has a small-town feel."
The almost rural scenery, complete with lakefront beaches and parks, makes Lake Zurich a kind of oasis in an area that also houses the headquarters of such major companies as Boeing, Motorola, McDonald's, and Sears. Settled in the 1830s and incorporated in 1896, it remained a farming community before developing into a popular summer resort in the late 1920s. Housing development began in the 1950s, and in 2006 the village broke ground for a downtown redevelopment.
Greg | Palatine, IL