Summer Camp near Chicago ?
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Jerome - For how long and what type of activities is he interested in? Staying in town and exploring Chicago? FWIW, I live in Chicago but send my kids out of state to camp to get away from the city but there are many different types of camps around town.
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Jerome W
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Hi Kev,
No I am looking for a camp outside the city.
Activities may be centered around nature "adventures" or regular sports ( soccer / football, tennis...). During 3 or 4 weeks.
Our idea is to make him practice his english being in contact only with english speaking teens.
Thanks a lot !
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That is pretty accurate. I send my kids to summer camp in Wisconsin. We are a little short on nature here. I asked around with a number of people I know who live in the nicer suburbs to see if there was anything, but didn't get any local options.
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Thanks a lot Kev.
So Northern Wisconsin is a great nature place. Good to know.
When you send your kids there, they flight ?
BTW, I was in Chicago 3 years ago for a whole week. I loved the city and the people. And I felt very safe in all the places we went.
All big cities have places to avoid though. But I doubt that summer camps choose these places !
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Hi Jerome,
I grew up in Minnesota, and spent a lot of time in Wisconsin,it borders to the East of Minn.
Both States are beautiful, with lots of trees and lakes. It would be a great place for your son to go to camp. Lots of outdoor activities like fishing, hiking, etc.
It would be a great place for your son to learn about Nature.......and have fun doing it !
I grew up in Minnesota, and spent a lot of time in Wisconsin,it borders to the East of Minn.
Both States are beautiful, with lots of trees and lakes. It would be a great place for your son to go to camp. Lots of outdoor activities like fishing, hiking, etc.
It would be a great place for your son to learn about Nature.......and have fun doing it !
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There are very few bad areas in Manhattan nowadays. While still nice overall, Brooklyn and the Bronx still have a few areas I would avoid.
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Right. And you live in Chicago. If Jerome would have said he wanted to send his kids to a summer camp in the state of Illinois, I'm sure there are some nice rural wooded places to send them to summer camp. But Jerome said Chicago which didn't make much sense to me. And yeah, I know Chicago is a big city as I have been there a few times over the years. I was last there for the Axpona 2013 show. Chicago is about a 5 hour drive from my house in southern Indiana. I just wouldn't contemplate sending my kids to Chicago for summer camp. I wouldn't send kids to Indy either. They stack up the dead bodies like cord wood every morning in Indy from the shootings the night before. Depending on what's going on in the city, even downtown Indy which is heavily patrolled isn't exactly safe.
If you send your kids to Wisconsin, you probably only have to worry about them getting stepped on by a cow or maybe a block of cheese falling off a shelf and hitting them on the head.
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Mep - Are you attempting to prove a point that Chicago is dangerous by using my quoted words above to suggest that even I, a resident, must believe that Chicago is too dangerous to have my kids stay for summer camp?
I see that someone has entrusted you to review audio equipment for their publication, so I'm going to assume that your logical waters run deeper than that. My kids do live in Chicago the other 50 weeks of the year so I'm pretty comfortable that they are safe. My choice to send them out of the city is, as suggested, based on my desire to have them in nature, not concrete.
If your fear of violence is keeping you away from Chicago, I'm sorry to hear that. Chicago is extraordinarily dangerous in places, but that is probably less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the city. Probably far less. Although what I am about to say no doubt contributes to the cause of the violence, you probably have no reason to find yourself in these areas. As for crime rates outside of these areas, it is probably comparable to any other large city, such as Paris where Jerome lives.
Also, hate to break it to the attendees, but Axpona was in the burbs. We have regulations preventing gatherings of audiophiles in the city proper, thank goodness.
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I see that someone has entrusted you to review audio equipment for their publication, so I'm going to assume that your logical waters run deeper than that. My kids do live in Chicago the other 50 weeks of the year so I'm pretty comfortable that they are safe. My choice to send them out of the city is, as suggested, based on my desire to have them in nature, not concrete.
If your fear of violence is keeping you away from Chicago, I'm sorry to hear that. Chicago is extraordinarily dangerous in places, but that is probably less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the city. Probably far less. Although what I am about to say no doubt contributes to the cause of the violence, you probably have no reason to find yourself in these areas. As for crime rates outside of these areas, it is probably comparable to any other large city, such as Paris where Jerome lives.
Also, hate to break it to the attendees, but Axpona was in the burbs. We have regulations preventing gatherings of audiophiles in the city proper, thank goodness.
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Kev-My only point about your children is that it makes sense to send them somewhere outside of Chicago to enjoy nature during the summer. All large cities have places you don't want to be when the sun goes down and some places you don't want to be even when the sun is up. Chicago is no different in that regard and Chicago doesn't have the highest murder rate per capita of other major cities. As I said, downtown Indy can be a scary place as well as some of the surrounding suburbs.