Olympia Fields, Illinois, majority black community ranks top 5% for median income and education

[Tanahashi Coates]

Whatever happened to that mall they were gonna build off 80/294 that had a sign up for 3 years looking for stores to lease?

 

[prime]

Whatever happened to that mall they were gonna build off 80/294 that had a sign up for 3 years looking for stores to lease?

I seen a picture on FB saying this is the biggest sent off in history

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

for someone to say that in the south is something else

Breh, seeing that used to always trip me out. I’m here in Atlanta. It always tripped me out when I’d see dudes on here and real life say they gotta go to places like Buckhead, North Atlanta, and other white places to get to some respectable living. I’ve driven through so many upscale black neighborhoods in this city and the surrounding cities. Hell, I live in a black neighborhood myself.

 

[Astroslik]

Juice wrld too

Damn didn’t know that

 

[Master Teacher]

I stay in Matteson which is right next to Olympia Fields ....Matteson,Olympia fields and flossmoor are great black neighborhoods the Property tax is high as fukk tho

When taxes are too high its to keep people from wanting to move there

 

[Lord_nikon]

Nice

 

[Wildhundreds]

Breh, seeing that used to always trip me out. I’m here in Atlanta. It always tripped me out when I’d see dudes on here and real life say they gotta go to places like Buckhead, North Atlanta, and other white places to get to some respectable living. I’ve driven through so many upscale black neighborhoods in this city and the surrounding cities. Hell, I live in a black neighborhood myself.

Every major city got a small percentage of black people, that moved away from buck wild nikkas in the city, to the burbs..

Ain't no reason a income making nikka should move around some CACs..

 

[BlackAmerican]

Only been to Chicago once, but I do know they have one of the largest black middle-class communities in the nation. There's other places similar to Olympia Fields like South Holland, Richton Park, Flossmoor and Lynnwood based off the research I've done.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

But i thought there were no upscale black suburbs around. Thats why nikkas gotta move around CACs they said..

Right.....3 suburbs for 40 million nikkas.......

 

[SATAN]

But i thought there were no upscale black suburbs around. Thats why nikkas gotta move around CACs they said..

There are upscale black suburbs in every state?



I'm in a suburb of Minneapolis that's 40% Black and it's rough as fukk

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Sounds like a nice place

 

[Samori Toure]

I stay in Matteson which is right next to Olympia Fields ....Matteson,Olympia fields and flossmoor are great black neighborhoods the Property tax is high as fukk tho

Say it again. They don't hear you.

 

[Samori Toure]

I didn’t know you was that way

But yeah like you said those areas got nice cribs but property tax high . It certain spots like Matteson /university park /Olympia fields the stores etc are very limited . Especially Matteson damn shame how they fell off. These spots should at least be on Crestwood level as far as businesses .

And being close to 57 is definitely a plus for those commuting to the city

The taxes are high on the business too. That is why many of them went out of business.

 

[Noriega]

What the job prospects looking like and How far is it to commute to Chicago??

Olympia Fields is on a Metra train line, which in turn will take you to Chicago State, University of Chicago, and downtown chi. You about a 25 minute ride from the Loop.

I seen a picture on FB saying this is the biggest sent off in history

fam thats in CC Hills, my parents been out there since the early 90s. They full of shyt, they been saying a casino, water park, mall etc was gon come for decades now. They finally folded and put some logistics warehouses up over there.

South burbs can’t sustain no outlet mall or other large development no more. Look at Lincoln and river oaks

 

[Noriega]

There's other places similar to Olympia Fields like South Holland , Richton Park, Flossmoor and Lynwood based off the research I've done.

yeah, 20+ years ago

Section 8 and dusty city nikkas ruined the south burbs. Seen it with my own eyes growing up out there. Our block was half white/half black(middle class) when my fam came to CC Hills in the 90s.

Mid 2000s come around , they started handing section 8 vouchers out like candy and everyone from the city started moving out to the burbs