I have lived in the South Suburbs of Chicago for most of my life. Sure I did a few years here and there, but they will always be my home. Tinley Park is my town, I moved there when I was 4, it’s all I ever knew. It started off as mostly farms, not I don’t think there’s all but one or two farms left in Tinley. We have a major amphitheatre, more shopping you can shake a stick at, a new store pops up somewhere it seems daily.
With all this progress, there seems to come a bad element. Lately some young women got brutally murdered to the town north of us. Recently we had a multiple homicide at a Lane Bryant right here in Tinley.
Is progress worth it? I am not one who denies sometimes change is good, but is it always good? I remember walking the streets of Tinley at 11pm at night and it would be a long while I see a car on even the busiest street. Now we have traffic jams that rival the city.
For good or worse, the town I grew up in is not the same, and I miss the old Tinley Park.
