Evanston is a cool place. It’s very intelligent and artistic; you can see it in the people and in the architecture. Downtown it’s a cross between a city city (such as Chicago), and a suburban downtown area. There’s lots of things to do—resturants, movie theater, parks, shops, music. It has good transportation, with lots of buses and the el and the Kenosha to Chicago Metra train.

I didn’t grow up here, but I moved here from a less cool Chicago suburb (Wheaton, a very staid republican & religious town).

And of course there’s Northwestern University nearby.