Romeoville

Despite having 40,000 people, Romeoville still calls itself a village, probably because for some reason people wont stop referring to it as, “the ville.” For its first 60 years, it was named Romeo, dooming everyone who grew up there to have to answer questions about Romeo and Juliet/Joliet. Jesus Christ.

Decades ago, it was mostly white people with bare minimum education. Thus, many jokes about Romeotucky still persist, though all the GD gas stations don’t help things. Nowadays the population is about 60% white and 40% Mexican, and it is now known for being a place where your kid is as likely to “gangbang” (aka smoke weed behind the speedway) as they are to listen to Ted Nugent. Ninety percent of the population marries someone they knew in high school and lives there until they die. Occasionally residents will intermarry with Bolingbrook (the next town over) residents they met in high school. This has resulted in the more diverse mix of citizens who barely graduated high school.

I’m going to stop in Romeoville to get gas on the way to Joliet.

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