America’s Best Place to Raise Your Kids

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americas-best-place-to-raise-your-kids.html;_ylt=AgVYKGdP5byR1ZraIhh8dxukF7kF   Tinley Park, Illinois Nearest city: Chicago Population: 54,491 Median family income: $90,377 Runners-up: Arlington Heights, Schaumburg Tinley Park, a fast-developing southwestern suburb of Chicago, is this year’s Best Place to Raise Your Kids–not just for Illinois, but for the nation as a whole. It has great schools, a vibrant downtown, and housing options [...]

Full List: America’s Safest Cities

Behind the Numbers To determine our list of America’s safest cities: We looked at country’s 40 largest metropolitan statistical areas across four categories of danger; 2008 workplace death rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2008 traffic death rates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and natural disaster risk, using rankings from green living [...]