I am planning on moving up to the Chicagoland area in August. Probably somewhere in the Northwest Suburbs. Just wanted to see who all lives around there and where you guys hang out. I am gonna need somethin to do when I am not in school..........

I used to live about an hour NW of downtown Chicago in Woodstock, Il. Even though I was outside of the suburbs, 15 minutes is all it took to get to them.

Believe me, there is no real shortage of stuff to do... I miss that area.

couple of us are in the burbs

i would welcome you in august, but im going to Ireland for a couple weeks

im here. yay

I'm here too, NW suburbs (Palatine), about 40 minutes out from downtown. What there is to do changes completely on where you end up living, but there's almost guaranteed plenty to do within driving distance wherever you live.

Originally posted by EclipseSix
I'm here too, NW suburbs (Palatine), about 40 minutes out from downtown. What there is to do changes completely on where you end up living, but there's almost guaranteed plenty to do within driving distance wherever you live.

no shit man, im in palatine! Near quentin and illinois

lake cook and rand here! small world. but im hardly ever in palatine anymore, i basically have a second home in fox lake with some buds, but yeah I officially live in Palatine with the grandparents.


holy crap!!! Your names Chris O'Quinn??? I was told to search you out, heard you had or worked at a shop that did a ton of work with DSM's! Do you know a Dave Fenning or Chris Ewert? I work with them at the Ace Hardware in Palatine and one of them mentioned your name when they saw what I was driving. I was going to get your number from them but forgot. If thats you, man, small world!!!

The area I have been looking at is around Wheaton and Glendale Heights because I have a couple friends that live there. I guess I am not sure exactly yet, I am still sorting out where I am going to live. It also depends on where I decide to go to school also, but I just wanted to know if there was quite a few people from here that live up there.

Chicago area has 1 of the largest turn outs for 2gnt meets, so make sure you make it out when your up here.
I live in Aurora.

Originally posted by EclipseSix
lake cook and rand here! small world. but im hardly ever in palatine anymore, i basically have a second home in fox lake with some buds, but yeah I officially live in Palatine with the grandparents. holy crap!!! Your names Chris O'Quinn??? I was told to search you out, heard you had or worked at a shop that did a ton of work with DSM's! Do you know a Dave Fenning or Chris Ewert? I work with them at the Ace Hardware in Palatine and one of them mentioned your name when they saw what I was driving. I was going to get your number from them but forgot. If thats you, man, small world!!!

yup thats me, im famous. I used to work at that shithole, lol

Yeah, it sure is a shithole, I'm there for a few more months and then I'm done, thank god.

Anyways I need a reliable shop to take my car to in case anything goes wrong that I'm incapable of fixing at this point, whats the name of the one you worked at?

The place he worked at is ERT. You've probably heard it mentioned on this board before. Here is their site address http://www.exileracing.com/

Nice, yeah I've seen them linked a few times, are they good? I guess I'll just search and see what people have said, thanks!

edit... seems like they have a lot of shipping/timetable issues. That sucks, but since they're local I can order and just go there and pick it up, can't I? It'd be nice to be able to do that with the bottom end kit sometime, or to have them port and polish and I could pick it up the day its done..