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.