Carol Bratlien:  

Life My family first lived around 64th & Richmond in Chicago. From before kindergarten to my later teenage years I lived at 81st & Richmond in Chicago. My dad was a Chicago cop and my mother stayed at home and sold Avon products. I went to Rosenwald and Carroll elementary schools and then Bogan high school. I always stayed on the south side after I left home, living around 26th & Pulaski and later 51st & Pulaski. After I married we bought a house in Oak Forest and I lived there from 1972-1986. I was divorced in 1978 but stayed in Oak Forest with my two daughters. When my daughters were teenagers, I was remarried for about 2 1/2 years and still stayed in Oak Forest. After I divorced I moved to a condo in Tinley Park and my oldest daughter Shari went off to college. After four years I missed being in a house, so I bought a house again in Oak Forest. Of course, after 10 years of that, both daughters having moved out by then (the older now married and the younger, Melissa, moving to the north side and working as a nurse), I got tired of the upkeep and the snow and bought a new condo in Tinley Park. That proved to be a mistake, because 2 years after I moved there my oldest daughter had twin girls and I couldn't stand being an hour's drive away. This time I finally moved more than 3 miles and went up north to Des Plaines and bought a condo within walking distance to the train downtown and 20 minutes from the grandchildren and 30 minutes from my younger daughter. I've been there now almost 3 years. I stopped working about two months before my first daughter was born (because everybody d...Expand for more