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In Peoria, Illinois, there is a Partridge Way...which intersects with Peartree Lane. Also there is Bacon Drive, Best Street, Hazard Avenue, Gift Avenue, Brandywine Drive, and Scenic Drive (which runs between a shopping center and a mall).

The Houston interchange is actually a simple stack interchange... --- There are various Illinois interchanges which I will showcase: U.S. 150 (War Memorial Dr.)/I-74 in Peoria, Illinois. I-80/I-57 in Country Club Hills (Chicago suburb), Illinois. I-294; I-80; I-94/I-94 in South Holland or Lansing (both Chicago suburbs), Illinois. I-55/I-90/I-94/E. Cermak Rd. in Chicago, Illinois I-90/I-290/I-94 in Chicago, Illinois. I-294/I-90/I-190/Des Plains River Rd. in Chicago, Illinois (just east of O'Hare International Airport) --- There are also a couple of interchanges located within Indiana which I will showcase (but they are all within the Chicago metropolitan area): Indiana 51/I-80/I-90 in Gary, Indiana. (I realize this is simply a combination of a trumpet interchange, a T-interchange, and a four-cloverleaf interchange, but it still caught my eye exploring Google Maps.) U.S. 20; U.S. 12/I-65/I-90/E. 15th Ave. in Gary, Indiana. --- Sorry for the absence of links. Mitch

I read this answer somewhere else on Simtropolis; however, I cannot remember where or by whom. Henceforth I refuse any credit for this answer. Choose an average skyscraper in your city. Think about the employment within that skyscraper: $: You have some janitors, ect,$$: The majority of the office workers in the skyscraper.$$$: The company's executives, ect.As you can see, the majority of the workers in that single skyscraper are middle class ($$). However, since you (presumably) have much more high wealth than medium wealth, without a large amount of R-$$ to balance out your R-$$$, the correct ratio for your entire city cannot be achieved. And since there is much more R-$$$ than R-$$, the R-$$$ cannot find enough jobs at the R-$$$ level.

I organize my Plugins folder with a similar method to Sepen20, but with more subfolders. For example: Plugins > Civic > Schools > JBSimio School Pack 01 or Plugins > Retail > Hotels > Surfside Inn or Plugins > Transportation > Other > Skywalks I continually plan to move all my readmes into a similarly organized folder, but I have not been able to allot appropriate time to do so.

Normally, I begin with zoning a small amount of residential next to a small amount of industry, with maybe a block of commercial. As the city grows, expand the industrial away from the residential, and expand the residential away from the industrial. Slowly expand the commericial area along an artierial road. Once you begin recieving commerical demand, begin building a CBD (central business district), which will be composed of medium-or-high density commericial, with one or two blocks of high density residential. The industrial area should still be expanding away from the residential and commericial areas. The residential area should be surrounding the CBD, but with commericial zoning along an artierial road(s). Preferably, when development calls for it, have a highway running through the CBD. If you wish to create realistic cities, outside of your CBD, only zone medium residential along arterial roads, except in a few cases. Otherwise only zone low-density residential. The residential can be expanded away from the industry in more than one direction; however, keep your original housing near the industry. *** As for zone sizes, I recommend starting with approximately five blocks of 4x4 residential zones, and then expanding as necessary. For industry, approximately 4 blocks of 5x5 or 6x6. In the beginning, only zone commercial around your artierial road; once a CBD develops, zone in 4x4 to 5x6 or 6x6 block sizes to allow for skyscrapers later in development. *** After building this city to a good size (about 10,000 inhabitants), being creating neighbor cities with mostly residential and low-density commercial. However, remember to constantly come back to your main city to zone more RCI (residential, commericial, industrial) to support the neighbor cities: people will commute both in and out of your major city. Have fun playing SimCity 4.

You can see inspiration from Peoria, IL (my hometown, at heart) in every single one of my cities. I don't have pictures to share because it is simply the map that I get inspiration from.