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Elgin, IL vs Glen Ellyn, IL

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#5 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#7 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#7 Sleep in the City Study

#7 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#7 Best Block Party Places

#8 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#8 Most Energetic Cities

#8 America’s Least Manly Cities

#9 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#9 Gloomiest Places in America

#10 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#10 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#13 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#13 Sleepless Cities 2011

#14 Best Baseball Cities

#14 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#16 Stressful Cities 2012

#16 America's Most Playful Cities

#16 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#17 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#19 The Most Single Cities

#19 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#20 America's Top Hygge Cities

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

#22 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#24 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#25 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#26 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#27 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#27 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#27 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#29 Healthiest Cities

#29 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#31 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#34 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#35 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#35 Failure To Lunch

#36 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#36 Hypertension Hot Spots

#45 2005 High Gas Prices

#46 America’s Manliest Cities

#46 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#49 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#55 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#57 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#77 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#82 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#90 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#155 2005 Best Places to Live

#192 Best Green Cities

When I first moved to Elgin 2 years ago I did not like it. I lived in a mobile home park near the river and highway 90 in a senior community that over prices it's lot  More

Hi, as a way of updating the post for Elgin and providing a rebuttal for some of the negative reviews, I've decided to post on this board. I've lived in Elgin since  More

I have lived in Elgin my whole life and it is very sad to read these comments about my town.... I'm a senior at South Elgin High School and I will be graduating this  More

My husband and I moved to Glen Ellyn from Chicago in 1993 when our first child was born. One thing you should know about GE is that it is spread out and there is an "in  More

My husband and I are life long residents of the Chicago area and have lived in Glen Ellyn since 1998. It is a comfortable, walkable, old fashion neighborhood where you  More