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Lake Forest, IL vs Thornton, CO

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Highlights
- Job Growth in Thornton has been positive.
- Thornton has 0.5% less unemployment than Lake Forest.
- Thornton job growth has increased by 22.7% in the past 10 years.
 Lake Forest, ILThornton, COUnited States
 Current Unemployment  Unlock6.9%6.0%
 Future Job Growth32.8%  Unlock33.5%
 Recent Job Growth  Unlock-5.0%-6.2%
 3 Yr. Job Growth-5.9%  Unlock-3.6%
 5 Yr. Job Growth  Unlock7.1%-0.7%
 10 Yr. Job Growth0.9%  Unlock6.3%
Reviews for Lake Forest    4 Reviews

We relocated cross county to Lake Forest about a year ago due to a job change. We looked at nearby communities, within proximity of the work commute (the office is in  More

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Be prepared for a so called upscale town with entitled, overpaid, snooty people from teenagers who sneer at you to adults who look you up and down, who make demands on a  More

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Over 15 years ago

Long cold winters, short cold springs, hot humid summers, nice  More

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Reviews for Thornton    5 Reviews

Good place. Very suburbany (similar to the Springs). The houses are very small and old and yet still very expensive (albeit cheaper than southern Denver). Actually lots  More

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Over 5 years ago

I like Denver metro, but some cities aren’t too great. Thornton being one of them. Moved here because of highway access, and convenience to DIA for business travel. Am  More

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Over 10 years ago

The quality of life here in not good. The traffic is bad all the time. To try to get to the mountains takes forever! Also most lakes along the front range you can't even  More

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