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St. Charles is one of the most gorgeous suburbs of Chicago. I was taken aback when I first drove there

I have lived in St Charles all my life . I absolutely loved this video and how you explained all our historical sites. You really captured the beauty of our city.

I grew up in St. Charles, I have good memories of that town.

I have lived in St. Charles the last 3 years... and I LOVE it. I am 5 min drive to all the bustle on main street but also 5 min drive in other direction to cows and open pastures in Campton Hills. It's wonderful. And yes, expensive. My 1 bedroom apt is $1492/mo.

Beautiful and welcoming older neighborhoods. Big shade trees, gracious and well maintained older homes with big front porches.

I lived in Wood Dale IL. Over 20 years ago. But when it came to my fishing I would head west to the fox river and afterwards enjoy the rest of the day enjoying the downtown St Charles area there.

I’m from St. Charles, and I must say this is the best video I’ve ever watched that covers our town. You did a beautiful job incorporating some of the city’s history into your narration. Well done!

You got nice videos my friend keep up the good work!

St. Charles does appear to be a beautiful city. 👍

Born and raised in St Charles. Now live a little north of from it off Randall Rd. Love my old hometown

I live 5 minutes from Saint Charles and this video really makes me feel grateful to live so close to such a nice town. Sometimes you forget how good you got it. We need to slow down and take in the beauty that is all around us.

downtown St.Charles is beautiful, we usually get down there at least once or twice during the summer to hobnob around and check out the river, we're about 25 mins east from there, and lots of famous bands have played at the Arcada, i hope to see a show sometime...

The entire downtown district of my childhood home town, Mount Carroll Illinois, is a historical district. I imagine several older towns in Illinois are probably historical districts.

Love your videos!

excellent video!! Thank you

Thanks for the memories.

I always enjoy driving through St. Charles and Geneva on a nice spring day when I got out of the city.

Nice video and agree St. Charles is a great town.

You are right about the property taxes - don't let the Government workers bully you into saying otherwise - just look at the population growth in the communities just across the state border.

OMG another place I heard of but never got to see until now. Many decades ago as a little kid waterways were often industrial wastelands one turned their back on. This excellent video shows how a riparian greenway can be a focal point of beauty, recreation and economic activity. In the area I live parks and hiking biking trails are being placed along waterways both big and small. The suburb I live in plans to move the City Hall next to a creek next to a hiking biking path. Great job Chris! Craig

Although I have mostly lived in Southern California throughout my life, I did live in St. Charles for about 3 years as a preteen. Am grateful to have experience St. Charles, Illinois, and the Midwest by extension.

If I never go anywhere, dont worry, Nostalgia Tours will take me there.👍👍

Man! Your editing and content is amazing! Glad I found your channel 🤘 not too mention but you interact with your audience! Definitely worth hitting the bell!

Hey Chris, Great video ...........I flew out of Dupage airport years ago and lived in St Charles ...........well done..

I saw one of my favorite bands, Everclear at the Arcada last year. Beautiful venue.

You mention that the St Charles trail is part of a larger trail. It’s part of the Fox River trail that goes from Oswego to Algonquin then turns into the Prairie Trail that goes into Richmond. It’s a great trail and the section going through St Charles near Potawatomi Park (thank god for spell check) is my favorite.

Thank you!

Hey, your videos are looking much better. Better color saturation. Keep up the good work!

Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg from New Kids on the Block are actually residents of St. Charles, IL

It really is and I live in Saint Charles and it’s beautiful here I go to summer camp right by where he was standing in the intro by the paddle boats that power may park

One of the town’s top employers is System Sensor! System Sensor is a fire alarm producer, and they make the best fire alarms out there! (And yes I’m a fire alarm collector) One of the company’s notable alarms was the SpectrAlert Advance, widely used in America-and got their reputation for being very loud. System Sensor has discontinued production of the Advance as of 2017.

One of my favorite towns

If you are asked if you have been a certain place, you can always sing the Johnny Cash song “I’ve Been Every Where, Man” 😁

Loved the video! Went to the original Thompson High School that you showed at the beginning and worked at the Howell Company that was located in the old piano factory building - later to become the Piano Factory Mall and then torn down for homes. 😢 I’m also the reason there was a stop and go light installed years ago at the intersection of Illinois and Riverside (say thank you 😅). Lastly, PLEASE do a video like this of Jacksonville, IL - very historic town west of Springfield.

I was born and raised there. So were both of my parents. It was a great place to grow up

The Coca Cola bottling plant. I remember that there was a Coca Cola bottling plant in downtown Rockford when I first moved here. In 1970-ish. It was on North Madison Street. I used to like to walk by the plant and watch the Coke bottles moving along the little assembly line to be filled. It’s been gone for several years. Kinda cool to watch. Your troll might say that I was easily entertained, but to each his own. 🤷‍♂️

Hi sir, kindly make a vlog driving around Vincennes, Indiana pleaseee. Particularly near Good Samaritan Hospital. Thank you so much in advance! 😁

Lived there all most 40 years ago wonderful place to grow up

You are so brave driving in all these different places. Wish I could, but the videos will have to suffice. Thanks.

I used to live in SC for 25 years. Lots of great places in the area.

For a second I thought I was watching a B3rdman video when the crazed voice chimed in. This is only the 2nd video of yours I’ve watched. I plan on binge watching today so I’ll make comments on some. If you haven’t done Woodstock yet, hit me up.

The municipal building looks similar to the newpaper building in Rockford. It has a tower similar to the municipal building here.

GreaT video overall. No mention of the convention center (I forgot the name of the place). You captured the worst thing about St Charles, the insane traffic. Seeing Potawatomi park would have been nice. Onto St Peters, MO video. My uncle lived there.

Great video. But, you never went west of Randall Road, which has a lot of beautiful subdivisions, park space, and bike trails.

Sadly St. Charles Mall used to be a great place to go - now it's an empty shell

Fun Fact: The 2017 movie "Munger Road" was filmed in ST. Charles 👍

Well malls that are good in our area is woodfield mall is huge mall off of 90 in Schaumburg and seemed to do great pre-Covid. and large strip mall “commons” areas as the one in Geneva to the south on Randall and Algonquin about 20 miles north of stc. Also aurora outlet mall,off of 88 not to far away. Yea Charlestowne mall has always been struggling. I tremeber it was like that back in 2013.

This is where I grew up and I miss it every day. I’m in Washington DC now and Washington has nothing on Chicago

Auto machine on the right @6:03

P.S. midwstern have such pretty pretty towns . atmosphere is great there ,and love towns whether if small or big county living it simply the best. i,m from deep suburban myself you ask for better ! GOD BLESS BE GOOD BE SAFE.

St. Charles is a great town, lived there for 6 years would move back there but the only bad thing is that the wells that city pulls from for city tap water tastes bad and needs heavy softening unfortunately.

You passed by Hotel Baker and didn’t say anything about it?

32:35. The Rockford airport is considered a “Chicago “ area airport just like the one you mentioned here. .

St Charles Mo is a nice City too

My girlfriend moved here. I grew up in Chicago and there nw suburbs. Hands down best place to live in Illinois in my opinion

Along 25:00+ The area you are driving through is definitely not the slums! 😏 I’ve seen commercial buildings smaller than those houses! 🤷‍♂️

notice no power poles the wires are all buried underground

I used to ride my motorcycle out there just because ❤

I grew up 20 miles west in Sycamore. St Charles used to be famous in my day for having Hot Chix ! What about the fairgrounds ?

You should do carpentersville and elgin

If you are ever feeling adventurous take a trip to Mexico and drive the streets of San Miguel de Allende - a nice historic little tourist town.

I live in Geneva. IL. Yay! It’s the best!

This is not what I think of when I think of the Chicago metroplex. This is a really nice suburb. Chicago's not that far away and some other parts around it. Nice video.

Do a video for St Charles Missouri

At about 27:55 I see a guy really “digging “ the town. There was a hydraulic excavation machine parked along the road.

No mention of the St. Charles Country Club. My father was a member in the forties and fifties. Was club champion several times.

Theres also St.Charles Missouri as well.

I left Illinois 5 years ago for Florida. It was definitely for the warmer climate and not the property or state tax. Matter of fact where I'm at my mortgage AND property taxes are higher than what I was paying in Chicago. But at least I have decent weather most of the year. Its just a lot of insects and bugs here, lots and lots of bugs.

Te faltó entrar. Alas sonas residenciales. Vieras. Visto. Unas casononas. Grandes. Todas de lujo todas de señores. Empresarios. Casa de lujo. Muy bonitas unas mamciones. Deberda. Yo vivo aki es hermoso.

My only guess as to why the Charlestowne Mall failed is not being anywhere near a major interstate.

in the newer parts of St. Charles all utilities wires are underground

Jalapeño grill yum

Best places to live is saint charles, South Elgin, geneva, batavia.

Can you do Elgin not that great but can you still do it

i grew up in batavia as did my parents. sadly, it's true about the illinois property tax being a 'buzz kill' to illinoisans...we call this the "mafia tax" as it's common knowledge the chicago mafia has major influence over the legislators in springfield, the capitol. i moved to wisconsin fortunately and now live further north in northern michigan. too bad about illinois...maybe they'll clean up the state although i seriously doubt if j.b. pritzger is the man to do it.

I do not know if St. Charles is my vision of Utopia but it was my dingbat mothers. It appears to be a nice place to live if you work in Elgin, Aurora or Wheaton but other than that forget it and save half of your 100K a year job paycheck to pay your mortgage and property taxes. I lived in Chicago for years and for awhile I had to work in Aurora. I remember Friday afternoons driving back at rush hour if it was raining it was over a 2 hour drive to go 40 miles down I-88 and where I lived and worked at was nowhere near a Metra Train Station so driving was the only option. My ex wife and I bought a beautifully restored turn of the century house in a historic neighborhood in Chicago. When I called my mother to tell her she replied in her typical dingbat voice WELL WHAT DID YOU PAY FOR IT? when I told her and she replied WELL FOR THAT KIND OF MONEY YOU COULD HAVE LIVED IN ST. CHARLES. The only problem is it is nowhere near where we worked at and I do not feel like driving 4 hours a day. Also did you know Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg got married in St. Charles? Donnie Wahlberg had to charter a luxury Bus to drive his mother there from Boston because she was afraid to fly or take the Train there which would have been easy while staying on the ground. So I guess I am not the only person that has a dingbat Mother. I think the Mall there appears to be dying because there is the nearby Aurora Outlet Mall right of I-88 that appears to be doing quite well.

Is there an adding, multiplying, subtracting street to accompany the “division street “ ?

Elgin would’ve made a great video as well

and recent alumni include this years grad Evan Asher Jenny McCarthy's son you forgot

Do they have gambling on the riverboats ? several towns have riverboat gambling . Especially towns along the Mississippi.

Lived there for years. It had potential once, but it's dying, like the rest of Illinois.

I'm 30 mins east of St. Charles

I live there

If I’m not mistaken St. Charles was named after the Catholic Saint Charles Borromeo

Two Middle schools? There WERE three, Thompson, Haines, and Wredling. Haines Middle school was always a middle school while Thompson is the old original High School before St. Charles East was built. When St. Charles East was built it was originally called Dunham Jr. High School but only remained a "middle "school for two years before it transitioned into being the new High School, turning Thompson into a "Junior High School." Nearly twenty years later, Wredling Middle school was built next to St. Charles East High School. St. Charles North High School was also originally built as a middle school before being transitioned into the second high school in the city. For DECADES St. Charles city council refused to have two high schools, their argument being that they thought having two high schools would "Divide the town." Ironically, and pathetically not taking into account that the Fox River already did that! St. Charles East High School was so overcrowded at one point that not only did they have mobile classrooms taking over the soccer fields, the students actually had to go to school in SHIFTS! Yeah, I was born and raised in St. Charles. I graduated in 1984. After my time in the US Navy and my subsequent diviorce, I moved back to St. Charles to raise my son, where he also attended ALL the same schools I did. Even having a few of the same teachers I had. My mother, Francie G Smith, was the original founder of the St. Charles Convention and Visitor's Bureau as well as the former President of the Kane County Tourism Council and the Northern Illinois Visitor's Bureau. She was also the Editor in Cheif for both Foxway magazine and Fox Valley Sampler magazine. BTW: St. Charles is Forty-Five miles due west of downtown Chicago, not Thirty-Five. The low poverty rate is due to the city essentially forcing lower income residents OUT by only having granted building permits for upper income housing developments and raising property taxes to the point where lower income families were unable to maintain their properties and were forced to either sell or have their propreties forclosed! I loved my town growing up but really hated the massive urban sprawl that took over, mostly due to the efforts my own mother spearheaded back in the early/mid-80's.

People are leaving Illinois for other cold weather states so it’s not the weather. I guess you told that to your troll.

That's my ex girlfriends dad's red truck on the right at 29:52

So many algorithms. So little time. 😬

Have you done Elgin yet? I noticed that you passed by a sign saying “Elgin, 9 miles.” Asking for a friend. 😬

Also just do people know I live in south elgin I pay 8000 dollars in property tax

I don't know I have always though of St Charles as not as Anfluent. Mostly because Geneva is right there too.

Why is St. Charles the only Chicago suburb you did a video on?

It looks alright. I prefer Schaumburg or Vernon Hills.

GoPros make it look like your driving fast when you're not. It's difficult to get an eyeful without driving real slow.

I went to high school in St. Charles. There are a bunch of snobby rich people there who are too busy drinking to pay attention to their out of control kids who are also drinking or getting high. At least that was the case in the 1980's

Used to live on Indiana Ave. Just east of river Kinda Sketchy. Moved to Barrington, so much Nicer

why aren't the McCarthy-Wahlberg's paying their share of taxes maybe that would help

Most of this isn’t even at.charles

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