Carol Stream always struck me as a slightly dodgy town, but then I grew up in the very safe and proper Wheaton next door, and when I was living in Carol Stream I lived in a low-income area that had crime.

Some parts don’t seem too bad; they’re more of the new middle class type with cheap new apartments and houses going up, and some development and the like.

The library sucks, and is tiny.

Overall, I think Carol Stream is just a town that grew up between other Chicago suburbs…I never felt any “culture” about it. I don’t even know where the down town area is, if there is one. It’s just full of people who seem to have ended up there because the housing was a bit cheaper than the surrounding areas.