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There must have been at least 100 people Christmas shopping at the Mall last week just one week before Christmas. I remember when you couldn't find a parking space this time of the year.
1:23 what they don't tell you in population numbers is that O'Fallon has also incorporated some areas for development the last 10 years. That new Target along 64 and a ton of houses along Greenmount has helped O'Fallon grow. Otherwise without that incorporated new development, it'd be a shrinking city like its neighbors.
I lived in O'Fallon for 4 years when I was a kid in the late 90s. In fact, you drove right past my old neighborhood at 9:50 across the road from St. Elizabeth's hospital. I didn't even recognize the area at first because NONE of those buildings on the right side of the road were built back then. It was just open fields. Great memories :)
O'Fallon is pronounced incorrectly in your video. The syllable -fal- rhymes with "pal." All the residents pronounce it this way. I live in O'Fallon, and I've never heard any local people pronounce it as if it rhymes with "fallen." Otherwise, thank you for documenting our city on your channel.
His videos are fun, but he couldn't pronounce Swansea either. But I also thought the narration on these videos is electronic and he is just typing in the script and software is reading it. Those programs constantly get regional dialects and idioms wrong because they haven't been programed to correct for them. Maybe I was wrong! Maybe Chris just sounds like a robot in real life!😁
12:41 you see that sign on the right side for St Clair Square? That's the mall, the only super regional mall for the metro east as Alton's mall is essentially toast.
O’Fallon native, OTHS class of 2008. The town has seen substantial progress since I left for college, as it has undergone a transformation, of sorts, from a growing exurban community to more of a true suburb of St Louis. The growth within an admittedly (and regrettably) stagnant metro area and state has been driven primarily by Scott AFB and healthcare, with the addition of two new hospitals. That growth is not because of Illinois public policy but in spite of it, as the state continues to hemorrhage population. I work in corporate finance and live in Atlanta - a far more dynamic metro area - but I will always have fond memories of this town and Greater St Louis. The people are some of the kindest, friendliest, most unassuming folks that one could ever meet, and the quality of life is exceptional. If a foreigner were curious to understand more about the lifestyle and people in the interior of the country, I’d encourage them to visit this prosperous suburban town that is Middle America through and through. The world would be a better place if there were more towns like O’Fallon.
My algorithm led me to you because I grew up right next to O’Fallon in Shiloh. Bought a house with my wife in Wood River three years ago, so I got your Wood River/East Alton video. Had to see if you did one for O’Fallon. And I’m just here for the mispronunciation of O’Fallon 😂 But, in all seriousness, love the videos my man. It’s oddly soothing to watch a bunch of your videos in one sitting!
2:00 Your assumption is correct. The road you were on was officially US 50 all the way through Fairview Heights into East St. Louis. It lost that designation in the early 70s after I-64 was built and the official US 50 route was moved over to follow the interstate out to the point where you started the video. You can tell who the old-timers are in Fairview if they refer to Lincoln Hwy/Lincoln Trail/St. Clair Dr. as "Route 50"...
Thing about the st.clair county in the 618 area its chill to the max, u aint gotta worry about random shootouts, drivebys, maybe seeing a robbery somewhere at the least sure but nothing like chicago, st.louis, or LA, u will however see a intense car crash out of nowhere but that's it for craziness, to super wild stuff don't come unless u invite it there
14:34 see interstate 64 straight ahead? THAT is why St Clair Square will be fine. As long as Scott Air Force Base exists, it'll keep southwestern Illinois a thriving area.
5:41 only those who stayed in the immediate St Louis area, there are also a lot who stayed in Illinois, but moved to farther away counties like Randolph where Valmeyer is.
I Appreciate these videos because I can really make up my mind about where in the area ☺️ that I would like to move because I will be moving in the area Within the next 3 months
If I was a younger man, with a lot of ducketts $$$.. I would come back there and invest in real estate in O'Fallon... bets the heck out of East St. Louis!
Did you know that they just closed Down I-64 and it was only one lane it was Saturday October 17 2020 and Fairview heights was packed because people were taking the exit and we were stuck in traffic for an hour it was horrible but glad it’s over with
i think was brings Fairview Heights down as far as the numbers goes is the fact that it has a lot of retail and more opportunities for theft and property crimes with cars and such. Especially being just down the road from East St. Louis. If the video continued, it would start looking a little more rougher.
and the Metrolink now connects Fairview with East St Louis, because they can ride the train and the bus through Fairview. As long as the mall stays Fairview will be fine, everything is dependent on St Clair Square.
The St. Clair Square Mall is still going strong in 2023 heading into 2024! Belleville Township High East is the public high school for Fairview Heights, only a very small portion attend O'Fallon's High School. It's pronounced O'Fallon like Jimmy Fallon, lol!! We could make a drinking game out of how many times O'Fallon is said incorrectly!! You missed Hwy 159 for Fairview Heights heading south from Hwy 50 into Swansea which is pronounced Swan see. 😆
hey chris Harden i whated you to no its the town was called O.Fallon ill with the captel o in it i lived here for 43 years as a kid in 1979 to 2023 right now
I can tell this is old when I see that first bp gas station with gas at $1.99 😂 that bp is usually expensive when it comes to gas and now its like $3.89
I just paid a visit to a "Mall" yesterday and to be honest...we need to stop blaming online shopping for these retailers who are struggling. Take a look at the prices of clothing at the stores commonly found in the mall while taking a good look at the material of said clothing and then head on over to Target and compare some of their clothing to what you seen in the mall...same material is used in most cases and the only difference is they slap a big name on the item and charge $60 more at the mall for something similar at Target you pay 3x less for.
This is where I was born and raised. How you're saying it is weird tho.... like...irks me. I moved away but surely no one says it like that now right???
Fairview Hgts is going down hill due to what has been coming up from East St. Louis.... It is an undeniable fact.... I was born in East St. Louis when it was still a decent place, and the family moved up into the area of Caseyville Township where the intersection of 159 and 50 was a main point of the area.... Still mostly farms and wood lots when I was a kid.... the city of Fairview Hgts was established around 1970 some time..a good, safe place to live and raise families...... What a shame.....Quite a different place now.... If ruining good life is so called "progress",.................. You can HAVE it. O'Fallon is still a good place because of the AFB Scott AFB near by.... Military have to keep their own in line for the most part and the families do to, or careers are ruined, and that helps O'Fallon out tremendously.
I grew up in O’Fallon one thing you pronounce it wrong and another thing the crime rate is not low it is a very high crime rate I still have plenty of friends that still live there and they are looking to move out do to the crime rate being high.
Ive already been corrected me on the miss-pronunciation. The crime rate however is in fact below average. www.areavibes.com/o'fallon-il/crime/ www.homefacts.com/crime/Illinois/St.-Clair-County/Ofallon.html
@@Aarontank24 I worked at the park in O'fallon and likely the nicest park in all of Southern Illinois, especially the Sports Park which I was very proud to help maintain.
@@jeffereyhopkins750 my best friend just took his 6 year old daughter fishing and she caught her first fish there.....a 16 more in a row! She was so happy. Thank you!
Correction: O’Fallon should’ve been pronounced as “Oh-Fahl-in.”
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Like jimmy fallon
I've always wanted to visit O Fallon, seems like the best yet safe place to live. Am I right?
A lot of military folks like myself watch your videos to learn about the area we are being assigned to. Keep up the great work! Go Air Force!
Moved my whole family to this area roughly 2 years ago and we are sinking permenant roots here!!!
We love it!!!
I just moved here 7 months ago and I love it 🥰
I also live here 🥰 what school do you go too?
@@LiamLives2 I go to oths high
There must have been at least 100 people Christmas shopping at the Mall last week just one week before Christmas. I remember when you couldn't find a parking space this time of the year.
A lot of memories in this video. It's very sad what is happening to the United States.
Democratic governors shutdown the country for no proven medical reason. But they used it to elect Brandon and Cackles.
1:23 what they don't tell you in population numbers is that O'Fallon has also incorporated some areas for development the last 10 years. That new Target along 64 and a ton of houses along Greenmount has helped O'Fallon grow. Otherwise without that incorporated new development, it'd be a shrinking city like its neighbors.
Plenty of room for expansion on the outskirts of Metro areas as there’s more undeveloped land.
I lived in O'Fallon for 4 years when I was a kid in the late 90s. In fact, you drove right past my old neighborhood at 9:50 across the road from St. Elizabeth's hospital. I didn't even recognize the area at first because NONE of those buildings on the right side of the road were built back then. It was just open fields. Great memories :)
I've been here all my life the hospital and everything on cross street is growing very fast.
The new Saint Elizabeth or the old one?
O'Fallon is pronounced incorrectly in your video. The syllable -fal- rhymes with "pal." All the residents pronounce it this way. I live in O'Fallon, and I've never heard any local people pronounce it as if it rhymes with "fallen." Otherwise, thank you for documenting our city on your channel.
“O’Fallen and I can’t get up :(“
His videos are fun, but he couldn't pronounce Swansea either. But I also thought the narration on these videos is electronic and he is just typing in the script and software is reading it. Those programs constantly get regional dialects and idioms wrong because they haven't been programed to correct for them. Maybe I was wrong! Maybe Chris just sounds like a robot in real life!😁
Spectacular insight very cool to see the old stomping grounds
12:41 you see that sign on the right side for St Clair Square? That's the mall, the only super regional mall for the metro east as Alton's mall is essentially toast.
I’d have a hard time thinking that Metro East could support more than one mall given todays climate.
O’Fallon native, OTHS class of 2008. The town has seen substantial progress since I left for college, as it has undergone a transformation, of sorts, from a growing exurban community to more of a true suburb of St Louis. The growth within an admittedly (and regrettably) stagnant metro area and state has been driven primarily by Scott AFB and healthcare, with the addition of two new hospitals. That growth is not because of Illinois public policy but in spite of it, as the state continues to hemorrhage population.
I work in corporate finance and live in Atlanta - a far more dynamic metro area - but I will always have fond memories of this town and Greater St Louis. The people are some of the kindest, friendliest, most unassuming folks that one could ever meet, and the quality of life is exceptional. If a foreigner were curious to understand more about the lifestyle and people in the interior of the country, I’d encourage them to visit this prosperous suburban town that is Middle America through and through. The world would be a better place if there were more towns like O’Fallon.
beautiful places!! i want to move there!!, very nice video!!
No you don’t
My algorithm led me to you because I grew up right next to O’Fallon in Shiloh. Bought a house with my wife in Wood River three years ago, so I got your Wood River/East Alton video. Had to see if you did one for O’Fallon.
And I’m just here for the mispronunciation of O’Fallon 😂
But, in all seriousness, love the videos my man. It’s oddly soothing to watch a bunch of your videos in one sitting!
This video is great proof that not all of the St. Louis Area is bad/crime ridden same thing with west and south St. Louis county
Are you planning to do a west and south county St. Louis video
I only have a few videos filmed of the Missouri side as this last trip I focused more on Illinois. I’ll get to it eventually
14:26 one of the last Famous-Barr rotundas left. So glad Macy's replaced it after the tornado destroyed it originally.
Neat.
2:00 Your assumption is correct. The road you were on was officially US 50 all the way through Fairview Heights into East St. Louis. It lost that designation in the early 70s after I-64 was built and the official US 50 route was moved over to follow the interstate out to the point where you started the video. You can tell who the old-timers are in Fairview if they refer to Lincoln Hwy/Lincoln Trail/St. Clair Dr. as "Route 50"...
I call it highway 50, grew up calling all those shops on Lincoln Trail on highway 50. I always thought it was highway 50.
Thing about the st.clair county in the 618 area its chill to the max, u aint gotta worry about random shootouts, drivebys, maybe seeing a robbery somewhere at the least sure but nothing like chicago, st.louis, or LA, u will however see a intense car crash out of nowhere but that's it for craziness, to super wild stuff don't come unless u invite it there
14:34 see interstate 64 straight ahead? THAT is why St Clair Square will be fine. As long as Scott Air Force Base exists, it'll keep southwestern Illinois a thriving area.
That makes sense. I wouldn’t say that Metro East is thriving though. O’Fallon and Edwardsville are nice places to live though.
5:41 only those who stayed in the immediate St Louis area, there are also a lot who stayed in Illinois, but moved to farther away counties like Randolph where Valmeyer is.
Ok.
I Appreciate these videos because I can really make up my mind about where in the area ☺️ that I would like to move because I will be moving in the area Within the next 3 months
If I was a younger man, with a lot of ducketts $$$.. I would come back there and invest in real estate in O'Fallon... bets the heck out of East St. Louis!
12:59 Sears is gone, closed up in 2019, despite signs still being up.
Interesting.
4:36 welcome to downtown O'Fallon! I went to a real estate agent located there. Too bad I couldn't find me anything that was within my price range...
It’s probably more expensive as it’s one of the nicer communities in Metro East.
Did you know that they just closed Down I-64 and it was only one lane it was Saturday October 17 2020 and Fairview heights was packed because people were taking the exit and we were stuck in traffic for an hour it was horrible but glad it’s over with
Nice houses ok O’Fallon help us grow Illinois
i think was brings Fairview Heights down as far as the numbers goes is the fact that it has a lot of retail and more opportunities for theft and property crimes with cars and such. Especially being just down the road from East St. Louis. If the video continued, it would start looking a little more rougher.
and the Metrolink now connects Fairview with East St Louis, because they can ride the train and the bus through Fairview. As long as the mall stays Fairview will be fine, everything is dependent on St Clair Square.
15:38 We owned the property on the left. I think it's a pawn shop now.
I just graduated in O'Fallon township
The St. Clair Square Mall is still going strong in 2023 heading into 2024! Belleville Township High East is the public high school for Fairview Heights, only a very small portion attend O'Fallon's High School. It's pronounced O'Fallon like Jimmy Fallon, lol!! We could make a drinking game out of how many times O'Fallon is said incorrectly!! You missed Hwy 159 for Fairview Heights heading south from Hwy 50 into Swansea which is pronounced Swan see. 😆
Yeah I know I screwed up the pronunciation badly lol
@@ChrisHarden I pronounced the Potomac River Pot Oh Mack! Lol!!!
15:33 at least you can see the former Target sign (now Old Time Pottery) on the right.
Yup.
17:00 not sure exactly where it is, but French Village starts somewhere around there.
Does it?
if you ever get a chance, try checking out Paris, IL
I might when I go to Terre Haute
What’re some cool things to do in Paris, Illinois
It's a dump. Hated it.
hey chris Harden i whated you to no its the town was called O.Fallon ill with the captel o in it i lived here for 43 years as a kid in 1979 to 2023 right now
Omg you passed my work!! Lol
I can tell this is old when I see that first bp gas station with gas at $1.99 😂 that bp is usually expensive when it comes to gas and now its like $3.89
I just paid a visit to a "Mall" yesterday and to be honest...we need to stop blaming online shopping for these retailers who are struggling. Take a look at the prices of clothing at the stores commonly found in the mall while taking a good look at the material of said clothing and then head on over to Target and compare some of their clothing to what you seen in the mall...same material is used in most cases and the only difference is they slap a big name on the item and charge $60 more at the mall for something similar at Target you pay 3x less for.
Do fairview hts again and ofallon illinois it as changed and marine il and grantfork il thank you
11:38 and there's the Dairy Queen on the right I filmed...
Cool.
This is where I was born and raised. How you're saying it is weird tho.... like...irks me. I moved away but surely no one says it like that now right???
As far as I've ever heard all the Fairivew students go to either Belleville East or Belleville West, I don't know any who go to O'Fallon's.
Neat.
They mostly go to Belleville East. A small pocket goes to O'Fallon. I am pretty sure a small part goes to East. St. Louis too. 😬
15:50 Bought five acres to the left that use to belong to the Southern Illinois Mafia boss.
Yep welcome to my town…probably the most getto place ull ever go to
2:19 well, there's my dentist!
Cool.
this area is a cluster and a pain to drive around
Fairview Hgts is going down hill due to what has been coming up from East St. Louis.... It is an undeniable fact.... I was born in East St. Louis when it was still a decent place, and the family moved up into the area of Caseyville Township where the intersection of 159 and 50 was a main point of the area.... Still mostly farms and wood lots when I was a kid.... the city of Fairview Hgts was established around 1970 some time..a good, safe place to live and raise families...... What a shame.....Quite a different place now.... If ruining good life is so called "progress",.................. You can HAVE it. O'Fallon is still a good place because of the AFB Scott AFB near by.... Military have to keep their own in line for the most part and the families do to, or careers are ruined, and that helps O'Fallon out tremendously.
Come to Alsip il. and i'll show you about 4 house's that sell Heroin
o'fallon is pronounced o'fallan all thhe stlouis area news stations pronounced it this way
Your pronunciation of O'Fallon is driving me insane. 😨
That was my goal, and I’m someone who likes to accomplish my goals.
So good!
U say O’Fallon wrong
I grew up in O’Fallon one thing you pronounce it wrong and another thing the crime rate is not low it is a very high crime rate I still have plenty of friends that still live there and they are looking to move out do to the crime rate being high.
Ive already been corrected me on the miss-pronunciation.
The crime rate however is in fact below average.
www.areavibes.com/o'fallon-il/crime/
www.homefacts.com/crime/Illinois/St.-Clair-County/Ofallon.html
Yes your right he just lying O’Fallon is nice not a lot better f crime talk about East St. Louis it’s bad
@@Aarontank24 I worked at the park in O'fallon and likely the nicest park in all of Southern Illinois, especially the Sports Park which I was very proud to help maintain.
@@jeffereyhopkins750 my best friend just took his 6 year old daughter fishing and she caught her first fish there.....a 16 more in a row! She was so happy. Thank you!
@@ChrisHarden those don't tell the full story, not every crime is reported.
Growth is limited, all new housing construction is north, since surrounded on the south, east, n west by other towns!!!