As a Ford owner, there are lots of choices of where to get your vehicle serviced.

You could choose to go to their place, the local dealership, your place, your home,

apartment or condo, your workplace, even your happy place, like your cottage on the lake.

Go to your Ford dealer or choose Ford pickup and delivery

to have your vehicle picked up, serviced, and brought right back.

Or choose mobile service, where a technician will come to you

and do routine maintenance right on the spot.

Both are complementary and depend on your location.

That's ownership built around you.

Contact your participating dealer or visit forwardservice.com

for important details and limitations. Welcome to Otherworld.

I'm your host, Jack Wagner. This story comes from a woman named Pat and it takes place

in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, which is actually where I grew up so of course this story sticks out to me in

particular. I'd say Chicago land is one of America's great suburban spraws.

Just suburb after suburb extending outwards until eventually it just becomes Illinois farmland.

The region does have a lot of history.

Humans have lived in the area for over 10,000 years.

A lot has happened there before,

and you could definitely get a sense of that at times, but now it's

pretty much been completely built over by hundreds of similar suburbs filled with families,

schools, Costco's, parking lots, and not much else.

Living in the Illinois suburbs is both very boring and idyllic.'s simply not much happening out there which is a good

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