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Evanston is definitely a suburb. There is a walkable area near the train and university, and some apartments, but there is a lot of single family housing on muc
by mrchicity 11y ago
Evanston is definitely a suburb. There is a walkable area near the train and university, and some apartments, but there is a lot of single family housing on much larger lots than you'd find in the city. People have big yards, multi-car garages, 1000s of square feet in living space. It's denser than more rural suburbs like Lake Forest or Highland Park, but not very similar to Chicago proper. Even in well-off Chicago neighborhoods with a lot of large houses like Lincoln Park, most are townhouses or rowhomes, and there is a larger mix of condos/apartments.
- tptacek 11y agoIt's a suburb, but nobody who's ever been to Elgin could say with a straight face that Evanston is the "archetypical" suburb. If Chicago were organized the same way NYC was, OP/RF/FP and Evanston would be boroughs. The better way to frame this, without getting into the special-case trouble of Philadelphia, NYC, and Chicago, is that the overwhelming majority of suburbs are not like Evanston, and are not hooked up to the arterial public transit connections of their major metro areas.