I would be more concerned about not moving to a grocery store hole, which is surprisingly easy to do in Chicago. All of Hyde Park, for example. (When I worked at UofC and we wanted to do our semi-monthly soda run, it involved driving to Jewel at 75th/Stony Island. Pretty interesting!)
I used to live up by Chicago/Ashland and that was not fun either. The options were walking a mile (or taking the bus) to Divison/Ashland, or taking the Chicago bus downtown and hitting Whole Foods.
Anyway, there are plenty of Dunkin Donuts. Base your move on something more essential if you don't have a car.
It would be a challenge to find a spot on the North side that wasn't near a Dunkin Donuts. That being said, I think this is a reasonable thing to look for if you aren't sure. I personally don't go to DD, but if you enjoy going there on a regular basis, it can improve your quality of day-to-day life. I've had the same thought regarding living near a Borders/Barnes & Noble.
To the OP and anyone else interested in the North Side of Chicago: I don't think you can go wrong anyplace near the lake between Downtown and Irving Park Rd. It's all beautiful; plenty of grocery stores and Dunkin Donuts'.
Wow, is it that bad now in Hyde Park? Back in my day, there was the Co-Op, Mr. G's, and Village Foods, plus University Market and the produce store on 53rd.
There are a few,but not many: Hyde park produce, treasure island, village foods and the one on 47th & wood lawn. The problem is that they're expensive compared to the south loop Target.
But I agree with the earlier comment that choosing your apartment shouldn't be based on DD but rather groceries (and transportation)
Yet another example of why sites need to validate requests on the server side instead of just assuming Javascript or Select lists will handle all of the validation.
Another technique to use if you can't just modify Javascript is to use the Firefox Tamper Data plugin and intercept & modify requests.
I agree this wasn't that technical, but it was mostly just for laughs. If you wanna see some more technical stuff I haven't posted about check out one of my youtube videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JW-_s-ecE
I used to live up by Chicago/Ashland and that was not fun either. The options were walking a mile (or taking the bus) to Divison/Ashland, or taking the Chicago bus downtown and hitting Whole Foods.
Anyway, there are plenty of Dunkin Donuts. Base your move on something more essential if you don't have a car.