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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
i'd also like to introduce a new category for places like cicero, berwyn, and elmwood park: relatively high density bungalow belt burbs that would very easily just be city neighborhoods had they ever been annexed by the city, but lack the defining downtown center of burbs like evanston and oak park. their commercial development much more closely aligns with the linear commercial arterial street model of city neighborhoods.
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^ I don't know, I just did a streetview tour of Berwyn and it seems to have its own little distinct downtown, unless I"m missing something.
It's not on the level of a Downers Grove or LaGrange, but it certainly seems to be on par with a lot of other Metra suburban downtowns