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Originally Posted by glowrock
Given that Oak Park and Evanston both directly border Chicago and are accessible via CTA, I'll go a bit further out and say Elmhurst.
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yeah, evanston and oak park's status as "suburbs" is really only a quirk of history.
both municipalities rejected efforts by chicago to annex them in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. in fact, in one of the evanston referendums, the city's annexation bid lost by only 7 votes. had just 4 of those people voted the other way, we wouldn't be talking about "evanston the suburb", we'd be talking about "evanston the city neighborhood".
evanston and oak park are definitely a sort of middle ground in so many ways.