Tell us about the place you live

[Rev. Rye]

I live in Skokie, Illinois. It's one of the northern suburbs of Chicago and has a population of over 66,000 people.

Here are a few attractions that are in Skokie:
* North Shore Center for Performing Arts (For what it's worth, a musical called The Last Five Years, which is popular enough that I learned out about it through its fairly sizable TVTropes page)
* A Holocaust museum (For reasons I will go into later)
* Two Barnes and Nobles (I go there now that all the Borders stores on Earth are closed)
* A sculpture garden with a statue of Gandhi (apparently, Skokie's a sister city with Gandhi's hometown)
* Niles East High School (The location for several John Hughes movies, now torn down and replaced by a community college. The only original part still standing is a flagpole.)
* Old Orchard Mall (The mall of Lindsay Lohan's character in Mean Girls)
* The Library (I go there every Friday)

There's no famous people who live there, at least so far as Wikipedia knows. There's two Nobel Prize Winners who went to Niles East, but I never heard of them before I decided to write this. Of course, who do live there? Well, at least in 1978, Skokie had more Holocaust survivors than any other city on Earth, Jerusalem included. Because of this, some Nazis decided to march on Skokie, and, after the Supreme Court decided that even Nazis have a right to free speech, they decided to move their protest to the big city.

Of course, there's also some public transport: Greyhound and CTA bus stops, and a train called the Skokie Swift that can take you into Chicago. I use the Swift to go to classes at Columbia. That said, if you saw Source Code and think that there's a Metra train that goes there from Glenview, you're wrong. Skokie is one of the few suburbs that Metra doesn't cover.