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Originally Posted by marothisu
"Lake County is far." No, it's far from Chicago. Not everyone thinks like that and not everyone even cares about being in the city. Evidenced by the large amount of mansions in Lake County and HNW individuals. As far as suburbs go, if you are wealthy and want a nice $5M mansion in that setting, it's a great place.
My guess is some of the top people at the company wanted this, and wanted their homes "close" to the office. One of the major factors was being close to O'Hare. Deerfield is 17 miles from O'Hare. The Loop is 18 miles along I-90. Basically the same. It probably comes down to most of the c-suite wanted their $5M mansions with land instead of $5M condos with views and they got a better deal on real estate price in Deerfield. The distance to the airport is basically the same.
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Not to mention that these execs are coming from Peoria, so it's not like they are die hard urbanists to begin with