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Old 12-28-2023, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Chi 'burbs=>Tucson=>Naperville=>Chicago
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Old 12-28-2023, 06:26 PM
 
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Most of the upper middle class types I know that raised kids in the city had kids that tested into Lane, or were able to attend a magnet school like Jones. Or they went Catholic/private and spent a fortune.

We lived in Lincoln Square for several years (after our kids were done with high school) and Amundsen is right there. I'm thinking, nice looking school, pretty well off neighborhood, but it's the poorer 1/2 that send their kids there, and I've heard bad things about it.

This made me grateful we sent our kids to school in Naperville....despite the other issues that come with it.

If you want a safe, high quality education in the city, you'll need to either make huge $$$ or have extremely intelligent children and are willing to have them go a decent distance to school. Or both. Moving to the city after our youngest was 19 and observing everything reinforced in my brain that having kids in Chicago during that 6-18 age stretch isn't something I would do. But that's just me.
Yea, I think I know what you mean. There's a lot of risk that you just described
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