Places to live in Schaumburg IL?

I'm planning on moving to Schuamburg for gradschool next january (so clearly I'll have no money). Do you know a nice, fairly cheap place to live. Also, is there any housing in or around Schuamburg that is dedicated to being environmental friendly. Thanks!

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1. if i were you id check on the chicago tribunes website under classifieds. they have pretty good pricing on there compared to sites like craigslist. i use to live there and you will love it! theres lots to do!! if you need any more info let me know!
2. Schaumburg is a dump as far as living in an apartment you might just end up living next door to some Section 8 freeloader or crackwhore or Latina and her gangbanging bf with too many unruly kids and the bass thumping spinning rims LaCucarachamobile they are 90 days behind car note payment on bought at the lovely low income credit guarntee walk in drive out Car Credit Center or Value Auto Mart (you know the ones with the Magnum Insurance(SR-22 coverage almost EXCLUSIVELY) sticker on 'em and hiding out from the Repo man, whose rent is subsidized thru Public Aid (or DHS as its called now) and is paying only about 20 or 30 bucks a month while you pay several hundred to rent the exact same apt in the same complex Schaumburg is one of many suburbs thanks to Chicago that is stinko with these sort of little ghetto apt. complexes where the ghetto dwellers and drug dealers run the place and feel at home. since the city of Chicago is demolishing the high rise projects, like Cabrini -Green , all the former ghetto residents and that "type" are being shipped out to the burbs and Schaumburg is one of the biggest receptacles of that project dweller outsourcing (if you get my drift) Skokie is too. Now Aurora suffers immensely from the overpopulation of Latin gangs mainly because in their flight from the big bad problematic city the Hispanics failed to realize that their own kids were the animals they were trying to get away from, I'd recommend you try Arlington Hts it is a little further north but it is much MUCH nicer and has not allowed transforming itself into Cabrini North such as Schaumburg has.( I think Scahumburg apt complexes were originally designed and targeted for this eventual influx and tsunami of human sewage. Hopefully by dumping it's human trash out in the burbs we in downtown and near north side Chicago will have a decent place to live in once more (but at a high price for rents ) oh well gotta give to get..right?
3. funny you should ask that.....i moved with my parents and brother and sister to schaumburg in l969. we were one of the first houses built in a new subdivision. our home was on a court with 10 other homes. my father was always gardening, vegetables (which we ate), fruit trees (also ate) and shrubbery which he painstakingly trimmed. I was already entering high school, so i wasn't much involved in the activities of the younger kids (my sister and brother and numerousneighborhood childen) which included alot of "dirt playing". there were mounds of dirt everywhere. i remember we could stand on this one particular hill and on a clear day see the city skyline. just a typical suburban neighborhood starting to grow. 33 years later my father was diagnosed with colon cancer. he passed away within a few months. 4 months later my mother was also diagnosed stage 4 with colon cancer. altho very hereditary, it is very very uncommon for 2 people from different parts of the world and different lifestyles to both have the disease (my father was from europe, my mom grew up in chicago). the odds of this happening were slim to nothing. i was tested shortly after learning of my moms illness at the urging of every doctor associated with our case. i too, tested positive, but was fortunate that if detected early enough, colon cancer is preventable. i was one of the lucky ones. our neighbor directly across from us died of the very same thing as my father did, not only on THE SAME DAY but at the SAME HOUR. the couple next door both have numerous stomach ailments. two other women died of breast cancer. the man in the house diagonal from ours died from stomach cancer. my non-drinking, non-drug abusing sister had a child born with only on kidney. family pets thru the years have also passed on without explaination. years ago, suspecting a nearby water retention plant, i began researching the history of our neighborhood. due to personal reasons i was unable to complete my research but, information i had gathered up till then led me to believe something thru the years had contaminated the soil which was a huge part of our lives. coincidence? maybe, but if i were you, i'd keep my shoes on and buy my fruits and vegetables from the grocery.