Your Home/Current town.

[IvyPickin87]

I wanted to start a thread about your hometown or current town. This prolly wont be for the people from chicago but more for the people on here not from chicago. But it could be a fun way for others to find out more about the city you are from or currently in.

Your Hometown/Current town:
Population:
Sports Teams (if any):
Famous People From Your Town:
Tallest Bulding:
Unique Fact:

 

[Jysen]

Your Hometown/Current town: Chicago/Kentucky. Population: Not many.. Sports Teams (if any): Nope lol Famous People From Your Town: Robin Williams is from Chi-town! Hell yeah! Tallest Bulding: Probably a church. Unique Fact: The town Im currently living is is misguiding. Pleasureville fucking sucks. But the peace and quiet is a good benefit.[/QUOTE]

 

[IvyPickin87]

Your Hometown/Current town: Des Moines Ia
Population: The metro area is just over a half million
Sports Teams (if any): Iowa Cubs (aaa team for chicago), Iowa Energy (d league for the bulls and suns), Iowa Barnstormers afl team, Des Moines Buccaneers USHL team, Used to have the Iowa Chops (AHL for the Ducks) Des Moines Menace Soccer team, And we have Drake University so good basketball bad football with them.
Famous People From Your Town: The band Slipknot is from Des Moines, Shawn Johnson (olympic Medalist), Bob Feller is from a small suburb of Des Moines, Cloris Leachmen (Actress done a lot of tv, Gram Gram in Beerfest)
Tallest Bulding: Principal building (principal financial/insurance)
Unique Fact: Forbes named it the best city to raise a family. In Pictures: America's Best Places To Raise A Family - No. 1: Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa - Forbes.com

 

[Jntg4]

Your Hometown/Current town: Downers Grove
Population: IDK
Sports Teams (if any): None, but the high school teams are the Trojans and Mustangs. Close enough to the Cubs, Blackhawks, Bears, Bulls, White Sox, Fire, and several minor and indeoendent league teams.
Famous People From Your Town: Not sure.
Tallest Bulding: Don't know.
Unique Fact: FedEx lives here.

 

[FedEx227]

Your Hometown/Current town: Downers Grove
Population: IDK
Sports Teams (if any): None, but the high school teams are the Trojans and Mustangs. Close enough to the Cubs, Blackhawks, Bears, Bulls, White Sox, Fire, and several minor and indeoendent league teams.
Famous People From Your Town: Not sure.
Tallest Bulding: Don't know.
Unique Fact: Lefty lives here.

Not true. FedEx lives there.

Lefty lives in Naperville.

 

[Jntg4]

Not true. FedEx lives there.

Lefty lives in Naperville.

Sorry, I'll fix it. Knew it was one of you.

 

[FedEx227]

Thank you!

 

[Gator29]

Your Hometown/Current town: Bakersfield
Population:324,463 from 2009
Sports Teams (if any): Condors Hockey Team
Famous People From Your Town: Aaron Merz was borned in Bakersfield
Tallest Bulding: Truxton Tower
Unique Fact: We have rare animal live in Bakersfield. It is called, "Kit fox." It is list as endangered animal.

 

[X]

Your Hometown/Current town: Jamestown, KY (Lake Cumberland)
Population: 1,746
Sports Teams (if any): Lulz.
Famous People From Your Town: some irrelevant guy from the local HS played in the NBA in the 50's.
Tallest Bulding: High School Auditorium
Unique Fact: House Boat capital of the world -- Home of The Lake Cumberland Poker Run

 

[Scoot26]

Your Hometown/Current town: Lombard, IL
Population: 43,000 people
Sports Teams (if any): None.
Famous People From Your Town: Daniel Tani - Astronaut, The Plain White T's,
Tallest Building: The Westin Hotel
Unique Fact: Home of the Little Annie Orphan home...thats all I have.

 

[Captain Iago]

Sorry, I'll fix it. Knew it was one of you.

Make FedEx famous!

Oh, and this lady isn't very pleased with you (on the right in her HOF jacket) for forgetting about her:

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

Your Hometown/Current town: Midlothian
Population: 14,315 (2000 census)
Sports Teams (if any): Bremen Braves (if professional, I'll count the Windy City Thunderbolts. Crestwood is close enough.)
Famous People From Your Town: No one really according to Wikipedia, although several big names in Chicago history like Marshall Field were once members of Midlothian CC and had summer homes out here.
Tallest Bulding: probably St. Christopher Church
Unique Fact: Midlothian police drive Dodge Chargers

 

[The Bandit]

I wanted to start a thread about your hometown or current town. This prolly wont be for the people from chicago but more for the people on here not from chicago. But it could be a fun way for others to find out more about the city you are from or currently in.

Your Hometown/Current town: Scranton, Pennsylvania
Population: like 60,000
Sports Teams (if any): Scranton/Wilkes Barre Penguins, Yankees
Famous People From Your Town: ME
Tallest Bulding: One of the Banks not sure what the name of it is
Unique Fact:

It's a piece of shit that I want to move out of soon.

.

 

[Crystallas]

Currently in Minooka. Lived here for 2 years and I don't know jack about this place. I spent most of my life in Chicago, 1 year in Milwaukee, 1 year in Columbus, GA, 3 years in a few towns on Oahu, HI, 2 years in Downers Grove, 1 year in Darien, 1 year in Joliet, 1 year in Ft Bragg, NC... I can't keep up with local histories. Screw all, go Chicago! LOL

 

[Captain Iago]

Your Hometown/Current town: Oak Forest/Lockport
Population: 27k/25k
Sports Teams (if any): Nada, just high school teams for both
Famous People From Your Town: Jason Fraser, Tim Byrdak, some jagoff who was in American Idol, Danny Donegan (lives there, I believe) / Can't really name a famous person from Lockport as it's a township of Joliet
Tallest Bulding: It's a suburb...
Unique Fact: Irish Fest at Gaelic Park, haunted Bachelors Grove Cemetary and Al Capone connection / Gaylord Building, Corridor (Lock #1), Abraham Lincoln stopped here during his campaign, Civil War Days is awesome at Dellwood Park

 

[X]

Your Hometown/Current town: Jamestown, KY (Lake Cumberland)
Population: 1,746
Sports Teams (if any): Lulz.
Famous People From Your Town: some irrelevant guy from the local HS played in the NBA in the 50's.
Tallest Bulding: High School Auditorium
Unique Fact: House Boat capital of the world -- Home of The Lake Cumberland Poker Run

some more pointless facts about Russell Co...

Tara Conner (Miss USA 2006) is from here...I graduated high school w/ her.
Vernie McGaha (st. Senator) is from here, too.

 

[flea]

Your Hometown/Current town: Wexford (ireland)

Population: 18,163 according to the 2006 census.

Sports Teams (if any): Hurling & Gaelic Football county teams, Wexford Youths Soccer team & Wexford Wanderers Rugby(union)

Famous People From Your Town: Kevin Doyle striker (Wolves Premier league) Father of the American Navy Commodore John Barry was born in the village of Tacumshane, 15 km south of Wexford. Statue on the Quay, Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer (I went to school with one of his sons) #
# The only Irish boxer to fight for a world heavyweight title Jem Roche

Tallest Bulding: the twin churches, think they are the same height

Unique Fact: There was a U.S seaplane base here circa 1917/1918

 

[nickofypres]

Your Hometown/Current town: Oregon, OH
Population: 20,000
Sports Teams (if any): Clay High School
Famous People From Your Town: n/a
Tallest Bulding: St. Charles Hospital.
Unique Fact: Size wise, its Ohio's 6th largest city after Toledo, Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Your Hometown/Current town: Rantoul, IL
Population: 12,000
Sports Teams (if any): Rantoul Township High School
Famous People From Your Town: Blake Schilb, I guess. I play basketball with his brother in the summer. Umm, Justin King a WWE ref.
Tallest Bulding: White Hall. Used to be the largest government building before the pentagon was built.
Unique Fact: Former Chanute Air Force Base

 

[TopekaRoy]

I wanna play too!

Your Hometown/Current town: Park Ridge, Il / Topeka, Kansas
Population: 37,775 / 124,331 (Metro area: 230,824)
Sports Teams (if any): Kansas Koyotes - AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (arena football), League Champions 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Topeka Roadrunners - North American Hocky League
Famous People From Your Town: (Park Ridge) Actors: Karen Black, Harrison Ford: Musicians: Adam Jones (Guitar player for Tool), James Pankow (founding member of Chicago), Dougie Thompson (Bass player for Supertramp and manager for Distrubed)
Athletes: Dave Butz (Washington Redskins), Ron Santo (Chicago Cubs), Nancy Swider (World record setting Olympic Speed Skater)
Also Hilary Clinton and Greg Glienna (Script writer for Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers)
Topeka: Actress Annette Benning, The Classic Rock Band Kansas, Death Metal Band Origin, College Basketball Coaches Dean Smith (North Carolina) and Mark Turgeon (Texas A&M) and Football players Trey Lewis (Atlanta Falcons) and John Perrella (San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders)
Tallest Building: (Park Ridge) Pickwick Theater (100 ft.)

Topeka: The State Capital Building (304 ft.) By city ordinance, no building in Topeka can be taller than it.

Unique Fact: Topeka is the home to Monroe Elemntary School the site of the Supreme Court landmark "Brown vs. Board of Education" case that ended racial discrimination in public schools.

It's Hot in Topeka
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_IlsPypwZs]YouTube - its hot in topeka[/ame]

South Park Residents attack Topeka
Victory in Topeka (Season 3, Episode 14) - Video Clips - South Park Studios

I guess that about covers it!