What is the best bakery in Illinois? According to Mashed, it is Lost Larson located in Chicago. Of course it would be located in Chicago, most food experts rarely venture much beyond that area. But I beg to differ.
Kruta Bakery in Collinsville is right up at the top when it comes to bakeries. Mashed foodies have probably never gotten further south in Illinois than Homewood. This sort of thing happens a lot when it comes to "best of" anything in Illinois.
We know better down here.
And in the same vein, a ranking of the best places to live in Illinois by niche.com, were all in the Chicago area. I mean seriously folks, do these Illinois surveyors ever get out of Chicagoland? And, the top Illinois cities in which to live are all suburbs. Shocker. Part of my growing up years were spent on the southside of Chicago, the Roseland neighborhood, the the second half in the west suburb of Villa Park. I loved those places but that is not all there is to Illinois. And...
The city ranked the top best is a place I have never heard of: Bannockburn! Sounds more like it should be in Scotland and must be a fairly new suburb comparatively.
Here is the list
- Bannockburn
- Long Grove
- Clarendon Hills
- Naperville
- Inverness
- Hinsdale
- Buffalo Grove
- Western Springs
- Kildeer
- Evanston
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