I grew up in Chicago, IL and I remembered how boiling and miserable it was in the summer, and the weather was never the same… It would be cool and comfortable a single afternoon and boiling and smelly the next.
Both of us lived in an area where the people I was with and I were close to the lake, however it wasn’t a pleasant area of the city.
When I was younger, the people I was with and I visited family members who lived in Orland Park, IL. It wasn’t far from Chicago, however it was different. The air was cleaner, and the un-even temperatures didn’t seem to be so oppressive. I knew I could call Orland Park, IL, home. I swore that when I got older, I would live in Orland Park, after middle school, I went to school for Heating as well as Air Conditioning. I wanted a job that I could have, no matter where I lived. I wasn’t planning on leaving Illinois, however I was planning on moving to Orland Park, IL. I wanted to raise my family where there were things the people I was with and I could do as a family and the air was clean. I wanted them to go mini hockeying in an area that was spacious and not cramped into a half-acre lot and people fighting for room to move, but when I got married, my fiance agreed she would rather raise our kids in Orland Park than in Chicago! Until the people I was with and I really moved, I would not have thought the weather could be so much different. Without the heat of asphalt and crowds of people, 72 degrees seemed even cooler than it did in Chicago… Orland Park, IL was a great location to live.