02-03-2009, 09:05 AM
Anytime I'm in a social or business situation in Illinois and talk gets around to "where you live" I always have to addendum "I live in Waukegan" with "it has a lot of potential" and "the housing is equivalent to anything found in Evanston or Lake Forest," etc. I say this not with shame but hope. One day I can, hopefully, say, "Yeah, I invested in Waukegan as a resident and taxpayer back in the early 2000s and I'm damn proud to live there now that it's turned around."