Outside Chicago - What's It Like? 🇺🇸

I just received this message,
"Hi Peter. My mom’s is 90 year old Margie and she is in one of your recent videos. Outside Chicago - What’s it like. My name is Deborah, one of her daughters, and I am writing you to thank you for this wonderful gift… you see, she had a stroke 8 days after you interviewed her and now her right side is paralyzed and she doesn’t say many words. She is living in her house on the farm, but requires 24 hour care. Me and my three sisters and other family members are doing our best to keep her happy and comfortable. I just received the YouTube link from a cousin and am loving all the comments people have written about her. She has always been the most amazing woman, mom, friend to all who know her. Thank you so much!!!"

This is where I'm from! My dad lives in Sandwich and Many of these towns are in the same sports conference that I was from. I grew up in Big Rock.

what kind of farm implement is that ai

A lot of sundown towns.

you didn't stop in Sandwich for a sandwich?

Steward Illinois resident. I was hoping you’d head a little up north to check out the twelve mile corner and rural Steward/Ashton but still very cool to see your perspective on Paw Paw/Compton. I have a ton of family in both so very cool ‼️

That wasn’t an 🦉owl….that was a 🕊️ dove

Fellas hear me out, Marge lol

Good morning brother and madam videos of you good ❤

Been watching for years and "You have Yank here? I'll buy that" is my favorite thing Peter's ever said.

Why the heck are people thinking the US is on the verge of a food shortage? This country has the most square miles of farmland and exports over $170 billion in crops.

Sandwich is not really that rural to me now rural southern Illinois is another wilderness

1:57 yo I think this road is the one that runs by my house all the way to sandwich you can keep driving and driving and all the houses look like this but they’re very evenly distributed

Chicago might be the 3rd largest metro area in the country...but Illinois is still more farmland than not! Western IL is an entirely different world, and I love having both.

I’m a big fan Peter. I have watched every video you’ve made. This one is my least favorite. This is pure victim mentality that doesn’t need to be promoted. This guy literally blamed everyone for the decline of south side Chicago except for the people that are currently dragging their neighborhood down. How about focusing on the ever increasing drug and alcohol problem? How about the high truancy rate of children? High teenage pregnancy? High single motherhood/fatherless homes? High gang violence? Even he admitted he wouldn’t let his own children walk the streets at certain times and places. Is that because of immigrants? Are cops making them commit violent crimes? Did white people conspire to destroy their neighborhoods? Come on man! I’m an immigrant. My parents did everything by the book and it took them 19 years to legally immigrate. They worked two jobs, working menial jobs, making minimum wage. They didn’t take a dime from welfare and managed to raise us right, with morals, and a work ethic. My brother and I have a nice house, live in great neighborhoods, never been arrested, and never blamed our set backs on anyone else. We got up and kept working. Our kids are college educated (paid by us) and none of them have ever been in trouble. America, especially if you’re born here, affords you the opportunity to make something out of yourself. All you have to do is work your ass off and stop blaming everyone else. Because while you’re sitting there feeling sorry for yourself, some immigrant, who doesn’t speak the language, and doesn’t know the culture, is working, educating themselves, and passing you by.

How do these people and their farms prepare for the severe weather and tornado season? I'm impressed. I'm chilean and I love midwestern landscapes

We’re no longer a net food exporter. The US imports more food than it exports,

MAGAt Illinois

Sandwich is technically the first town out of the Exurbs of Chicago that is considered truly rural. We now live in Hinckley, Illinois and there is no stop sign or stoplight here.

I lived in Sandwich and one town over is Plano and that is where they shot the Superman-Man of Steel movie in 2013. It was interesting to walk at 10 pm down the main street set. One day they had helicopters that kept buzzing over where I lived and on one of the last days there were huge explosions.

They are going to put data centers in Yorkville.

These rural people that hate that big cities because they don't feel their votes should override rural votes...I don't like that California has two Senators, and Wyoming has two Senators.

1.5-2 hours out of Chicago, you barely made it out of the city, come on down 4-5 hours south of Chicago, even more of a "different world"

I love your videos

I grew up in Chicagoland, and ended up knowing shockingly little, about the rest of the state. I was aware of places only as far away as maybe Rockford, Peru, and Kankakee.

I support Nelson,why not use the roofs in Chicago for solar panels?? Why are you using up the same lands that feed the owners and occupants of the buildings in Chicago??....I think that's more sustainable than using up farmlands....

Nelson makes a whole lot of sense.