  Very cool, Em! I dunno much about the south suburbs of Chicago, other than the random shootings and gang violence I see on the news. In other words, you'd probably wanna look either in Chicago(! ) or one of the northern (Evanston) or western (Oak Park) suburbs. That is, if you dont stick to Indiana. Liz and I kinda looked in the Valpo area cause it's so quiet, but the commute to Chicago is a bastard.
I can definitely see you two up here....if you wanna come up some weekend and look around or if you ever have an interview up here, our door is open! Detroit. Rock City. Are mike and kristie engaged or still dating? My wife didnt speak to me for 4 hours today. We had an argument about Jesus. We've had a lot of arguments in 6 years but never one about Jesus. It started at the grocery store when, as we were checking out, I told her to hold the milk (fragile...in a glass container) like she was holding the baby jesus.
This somehow evolved into disagreements on evolution and monkeys and such. Now mind you, our arguments are usually over someone not watering the plants or eating all the ice cream. Six years and we just now have this argument. There is something kinda funny about having a blowup on jesus while unloading Pringles and oatmeal cookies. In summary, bottled milk is fragile like grandma's good china, NOT baby jesus. 
