Those Who Care With Integrity, IL

Factual Questions
1

I was just looking at a map of Springfield, IL and saw this. What a strange name for a town. I tried to look it up on wiki, but nothing was there. What’s the story behind this name?

2

It’s evidently a neighborhood of Springfield, Illinois, but I can’t find out anything more about it:

http://localism.com/blog/il/springfield/posts/847620/Springfield-Area-Neighborhood-Associations

There’s a Those Who Care With Integrity Spa and Beauty and a Those Who Care With Integrity Real Estate!

http://national.citysearch.com/guide/those-who-care-with-integrity-springfield-il/spa_beauty.html?publisher=smx_noncust&reference_id=1&placement=spa-collector

But these don’t explain the odd name. Maybe it’s got something behind it like Truth or Consequences, new Mexico, which took its name from the radio show (later a TV show) in exchange for some prize.

Or maybe somebody lost a bar bet, or something.

3

I live in Springfield, IL and I’ve never heard of this! :dubious:

Could the OP please post a link to the map in question?

4

I think it’s just a neighborhood association, or a community-improvement group, or something. In the first link that CalMeacham posted, the president’s address is listed. That address is … not in a great neighborhood.

5

Nobody would name a Spa or a Real Estate operation after a homeowner’s association. And it’s listed there alongside other neighborhoods. It certainly looks as if somebody decided that should be the neighborhood name.

Here in MA a lot of older towns got swallowed up by nearby towns, and the neighborhood kept the name (like Greenwood), or the neighborhood always had that name (Cliftondale in Saugus), or got the name through some nearby business (the Globe, in Southbridge). This looks like one of those cases. If so, you wouldn’t expect to find those names on any but a detailed local map.

6

Here’s a link to the map.

7

Its a copyright trap.

8

Me neither. If it’s actually the name of anything, it’s something so obscure that I’ve never heard of it.

9

That address is entirely within the city limits of Springfield in every sense of the word (post office, school district, library district, etc.). I’m going with either copyright trap or somehow the name of the neighborhood association wound up in Google’s database.

And BTW, that is NOT some town that got swallowed up by the Springfield sprawl; we already have four of those, and we know their names (Grandview, Southern View, Leland Grove and Jerome, FTR).

10

Not the only possibility I list. And unless the copyright people made a couple of fake websites to bolster their case, or a couple of businesses decided to name themselves after an association, it looks like a legit (if weird) neighborhood name to me

11

There is no spa with that name in Springfield. Citysearch got confused, or something. There IS an Avon supply in that neighborhood, at the same address as… the president of the homeowner’s association. There is no real estate operation with that name, either. Your link turned up some amalgamation of real estate searches in that general area, but there is no business by that name in the Springfield white pages.

This thing is getting weirder by the minute.

12

Cal - I think you and I are on the same page, we’re just using different definitions. It’s probably a neighborhood name, but it’s definitely not a town name (in the sense that the OP was asking about).

13

That is definitely weird. If you search using “Those Who Care With Integrity” and “Illinois” you get three pages worth of hits, but the name of the location looks as if it might be deduced from the map itself, because it doesn’t otherwise appear in the body of the page. (There are also message boards with other people marvelling over this designation). It’s possible that the President of this organization lives there, and maybe she or some enthusiastic mapmaker put it down as the district name, and from there it’s getting the mindless robot at the Search Enginees to say that things are in that neighborhood. It’s looking more and more like an error (or misplaced boosterism)

14

I think you’ve got it, HeyHomie
By way of expiation, I offer “11 Weird and Funny City Names and Proof that they Exist”
Read the reprinted newspaper article – it’s a riot.

15

I’ll drive by that end of town tonight and see what’s up. Springfield puts signs up at the entrances to its neighborhoods, and that address is in the general vicinity of the Bunn Park neighborhood. I’ll drive by and see if I’m welcome to the Those Who Care With Integrity neighborhood.

Funny anecdote: Springfield’s worst ghetto welcomes you with signs announcing the Mather Wells neighborhood. I don’t know who Mather and Wells are, but they’re probably rolling in their graves at what’s become of their neighborhood.

16

That’s nothing. Cleveland’s worst ghetto is a project called “King Kennedy estates”, after M. L. King and JFK. Once, there was a newspaper article about the high level of crime there, and an irate reader wrote a letter to the editor demanding to know how the paper could dare to besmirch the name of two such great men.