A small town in northern
Illinois, on the northwest fringe of
Chicagoland, with it's main
commercial district centered on the
junction of Ill. RT 62 and Randall Rd.
It's a
town currently characterized by its rabid
suburban sprawl, qualifying it to appear on the top ten list of the fastest growing cities in the
United States, with several new
residential areas sprouting from
barren farmland within the last five years. To cater to these new
consumers corporations have eagerly provided two new
grocery stores, three
hardware stores, a
movie theater, two
gas stations, seven
fast food restaurants, two
video stores, a
coffee shop, a
bank, a
toy store, and a
cornucopia of other
miscellanous businesses in the immediate vicinity of one
intersection. (Most of them established around
1997 or shortly after.)
As for
history, the name says something about the
ingenuity of the people who established the town, as it does indeed have a lake nestled in the hills of its original residential district, characterized by prefab housing of a slightly different
flavor than the new
pop-up houses gracing the new areas.