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#16 America's Most Playful Cities

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#20 America's Top Hygge Cities

#21 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#22 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

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nice town, very safe but high taxes.  More

The Fox River is a nice place to cruise around on the boat and visit all the area bars but after seeing one bar you've seen them all. There is very little artistic  More

High property taxes is one of the biggest deterrents to wanting to 'retire' almost anywhere in Illinois. Once on a fixed income this would be a huge drain on finite  More

We feel pretty safe in our community. The police are nice and helpful. I do not feel the crime rate is  More

Elmhurst is a FANTASTIC town to live in. My husband and I both grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and have lived in Elmhurst for the past 5 years. We feel incredibly safe  More

We've lived here for 25 years - Elmhurst, IL. By luck in 1983, we moved here. Young newlyweds, we really weren't too well versed in sizing up a community to buy a  More