I love Naperville more than any town around Chicagoland area.

But what I don't like about Naperville is lack of parking at
Naperville Metra train station. Please get together with Metra
and the Fed to build a parking garage big enough to handle today's
needs and needs out to 10 years. Build it all underground.

If that happens, what can you not like about Naperville???

I have lived here 19 years and I find it amazing how many people think Naperville has somehow been ruined over that period of time.
Traffic - yes 59 can be a pain and needs to be addressed - but I grew up in Chicago - live there and then rate the traffic here
Snobs - Do we have a monopoly on that ? There are irritating people everywhere, and nice people everywhere...
Taxes - look at the 2 school systems and what they represent compared to areas with lower taxes. And while not a 1:1 correlation they have helped increase property values and make this a place where people want to live coupled with the park district and city services. None of which come free.

Noise downtown - give me a break. Look at many towns in this country with desolate run down downtown areas -- is that the alternative ?

if what someone seeks is a small rural community and that atmosphere, and certainly there is nothing wrong with that, but living near a city of 7 million people is likely not the location.

as far as an answer to the question - be a little tighter with building permits so that every little slice of green space left doesn't get built on - places like Hobson Ponds needs to remain as it is.

Eli Hodapp....that's an easy one.

Can this really be "Napervillians" on these posts? The converse of this topic, what do you like most about this dear old "gift to suburbia" has ONE post in five days while here, we find six? The consensus of things not liked appears to be high taxes, too much traffic, and a population of snobs. Golly, maybe this isn't the best place to live after all.

To Miracle Gangster: I don't know what Steve Fossett could possibly have to do with Eli Hodyapp. That analogy, while naive, could be construed as "utter nonsense." The fact remains that Hodyapp got the city's attention on an issue that is no small thing to Naperville residents - excessive noise levels at bars and restaurants. And, since you're not in a hurricane zone, why are you so concerned about reporters in the pathways of major storms? Your logic is, well, illogical.

Imagine that, self-consumed Hodapp actually complaining that a forum has allowed his name to be posted! I guess it only happens when he is challenged, kind of like Barry Manilow not willing to go on The View because he is intimidated by the lone conservative Melissa Hasselback.

Someone please book Barry at Rizzo’s and perhaps he can serenade Eli.

In the national media we are treated daily to ridiculous headlines ranging from harmful “popcorn dust” to Paris Hilton’s choice of sandals to Steve Fossett’s outmoded balloon rides, as well as reporters standing in the pathways of major storm systems reading the same regurgitated gibberish from teleprompters.

Perhaps I am naive to expect more out of a paper than approving stories it feels fit to print such as the stories centering on recluse Eli Hodyapp’s self absorbed rants about noise levels in the central business district as well as other utter nonsense.

There are a lot of nice things about Naperville, but the three things I don't like are the traffic, the way that everyone who lives here has to constantly talk about how great it is, and the fact that while I live in an apartment here, there is not a house anywhere in the area within $300,000 of my realistic price range and I don't see that changing anytime soon. People with moderate incomes should be able to live where they work; we shouldn't all be forced to move half way to Iowa if we want to own our piece of the American dream.

"Complains continually?" What am I complaining about now? Or better yet, what have I complained about since I won the noise battle? What did I complain about before then?

Surely if I'm continually complaining like a child you must just have countless examples.

Either way, it's pretty classy for the moderators of this blog to approve flat out personal attacks in comments. Keep up the good work, Potluck editors!

Hands down Eli Hodapp. He complains continually like a prepubescent child about Naperville but he has the power to move unlike the child who is cannot choose where he lives.

Without a doubt the thing I like least about Napervile are a large majority of its inhabitants. I hate to generalize here, but there are many people, both men and women, who are climbing the corporate ladder, overly aggressive and "one uppers". Maybe its because they think they are better than others or that they drive a new Lexus. I'm just sick of it and am comtemplating moving after living here 12 years. Go to Hugo's on a Thursday night and look at all the idiots smoking cigars and talking big about how much money they make. Give me a small town with small town values any day!

After 18 years, we've reluctantly concluded that the quality of life in Naperville has decreased to the point that it is time to leave. The traffic is impossible at most times of the day, property taxes consume far too high a percentage of our disposable income and will go up again when the new high school opens. ( I know that the City likes to distance itself from any responsibility for school taxes, but that is untenable: the City determines what gets built and what the impact fees will be and the schools have no choice but to educate the resulting students. The City has ultimate control and therefore, the ultimate responsibility. The city government shows no signs of focusing on fiscal restraint, just ways to raise more tax dollars. That the city has continued to grow, some would say prosper, suggests that I have a minority opinion and I accept that view. But deep down, I resent being forced to move because "progress" has created a city that differs greatly from the one that attracted us to move here many years ago.