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    Range USA Hodgkins

    3.4 (170 reviews)
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    I'm honestly so frustrated. Over a year ago, my whole family of five signed up for a membership at Range USA. When we signed up, the staff never said anything about a limit on how many people we could bring. We all got in for free, no problem. We visited multiple times as a family, and nobody ever mentioned any extra fees. And we paid $50 a month for the membership for over a year. Then suddenly, on our most recent visit--our sixth time there--they tell us, "Oh, actually, your membership only allows one free guest. If you bring more, it's $12 per person." WHAT?! I told them no one ever told us that, and their response was, "Well, no one told you that you could bring more than one person either." Like... what kind of logic is that? When you see a group of more than two people come in repeatedly and never say anything, how are we supposed to know there's a guest limit? Shouldn't that have been made very clear at the beginning? I even asked, "What about the $70/month plan? Does that allow more guests?" (Because recently, we came with three people each time.) And they said, "Nope, same rule. Doesn't matter what plan you have." This whole experience has been so disappointing. If we had known this from the start, we never would've signed up. We canceled the membership, asked for a refund for this month (it's literally the beginning of August), and of course, they said no. Unbelievable.

    It was my 2nd time coming here and my friend's 1st time. The guy named Jose( older guy) was very dismissive and not helpful when we asked about guns, ammo and what we needed to shoot. I'm not experienced so I asked questions. He made my friend and I uncomfortable (for example) when we asked "which gun would be good for a first time shooter?" He just shrugged his shoulders and just looked down at some 9MM. He obviously wasn't trying to help and didn't seem to want to be there. We also came across him in the shooting room and the way he talked to some guys there was very aggressive and unprofessional. He screamed at them about how fast they were shooting and said" if you don't like it, don't come back here ever again." That was so uncomfortable, awkward and unnecessary. I wasn't aware you can't shoot fast either ( not that we did shoot fast) so I learned bc even with those things on our ears we heard him screaming aggressively. Jose will be the reason I will never go back there. I'll spend my $176.57 somewhere else. Not worth what I spent there to be treated so poorly. If Jose wasn't knowledgeable then he should have directed us to someone who could have helped us. My friend was so excited when we arrived and how quickly it faded bc of the whole experience with Jose. Don't waste your money here.

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    Gun range for rifle good inventory of rifles gun and ammunition at reasonable prices.

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    I took the ccl renewal class with Edward c. Bilski. I learned some new techniques. The class was real informative.

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    Facility is very clean. They have a variety of weapons. Staff is professional. Make sure you are over their emails. They have lots of sales

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    The manager I've ran into have to much attitude and no sense of respect. Promotion are almost irrelevant here.

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    Great experience with instructor Edward bilski very informative learned a lot and helped me become more confident shooting

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    Wait time to check in is horrible. Range is dark and outdated. Only thing that saved this place was the people that work here.

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    Ask the Community - Range USA Hodgkins

    Is this a rifle range, and is this in cook county? If so, how can I transport my ar15 to the range if it is not allowed in cook county?

    Hi Hex- Please see our range rules below, and yes we are in Cook County. FIREARM AND AMMUNITION… 

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    “My boyfriend and I used to go to Range in 355, which is also good, but point blank is way closer and more adorable.”

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    Flew all the way to Chicago to complete my non resident CCL for Illinois. After extensive research…read moreI decided IPST group. Gary, Deb, and the lead instructor Chris LaPash, were awesome. Gary and Deb insured that paperwork was streamlined and complete; range time was completed in expeditious fashion. Chris' class was extensive!! And I mean EXTENSIVE. He fills about 20+plus hours of information in the 16 hour required class timeframe. Complete with dry runs of the range, law and policy information, even finger trigger placement, position and posture, eye dominance. I've participated in half a dozen of CCL classes. This was the first to cover so much information and even incorporated defensive insurance!!! They also support local businesses as the range we went to was a small mom and pop indoor range. They even have their own mascot, Reacher .

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    3.0(6 reviews)
    1.2 mi

    I would like to explain the experience of being here at Acacia Academy. In Acacia Academy, I've…read moreexperienced difficulty with learning while dealing with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, and ADHD mostly. While being here, I've struggled even more. The classes with these two specific teachers have made it even more difficult for me to learn and to work. The teachers will follow me to the bathroom due to the fact I've cried in the bathroom multiple times and it has been a '"concern" to the staff members. I would also like to mention that I've gotten panic attacks in the bathroom too-because of my PTSD, and also feeling like I am not good enough for anyone in this school (staff members, teachers, and students.) It has really made me uncomfortable from the fact that the administrator has instructed the teachers to follow me to the bathroom to monitor for me crying, panicking, or talking badly about myself even when I had stopped now. I would also like to mention that the administrator assumes that every problem with a student is either stress, or anxiety. There was a time when I was on the bathroom floor from having a panic attack and I felt weak, I've told the social worker that I had a PTSD flashback, yet they had put me in a room with an administrator to just eat my lunch and apparently "give me time" is what the social worker said and put me back in class. I understand that social workers have to talk to other kids in school, but what makes these "social workers" think that putting me back in class was a fine thing to do? Every time that I've talked to these "social workers," and discuss about how this school has made my mental state worse, yet they encourage me to keep going to this school. I've never felt more disgusted, hatred, and anger in my life from how a "social worker" would convince me that it is required to keep going here while my mental state is getting worse day by day while coming to this school. Keep in mind, I am really struggling with suicidal thoughts right now at the moment and I have to do an online hospitalization program. The teachers continue to stack up on work, while knowing that I will not be able to do some of these assignments at home because I have to do an online hospitalization program. I've never felt more pressured in my life than ever when wanting to have good grades, to get my work done, while I feel that the teachers and staff have absolutely NO awareness about the fact that I won't be able to have enough time to turn in all these assignments on time because of my online hospitalization program. Dealing with my mental health and education is absolutely exhausting, but yet-the teachers continue to give me stacks of work while I'm having to do the online hospitalization program at the same time. I've tried talking to the social workers here, but I've noticed that social workers tend to go straight to the negatives when it comes to certain talks, but never find the positivity in things that could happen if I made changes for coming to this school. Another thing is that a social worker was hoping for me to go to a partial hospitalization program *in-person*, but I told her that I was doing it *online* and she gave me a disappointed look and said, "I was hoping you would go in-person." I felt that it was completely unnecessary that she had to give a comment like that for the choices my parents make to try to help me. The social workers will always tell you, "I'm glad you came today!" Sure! You're glad that I came today to this school, but do I feel that I'm glad I came today? Absolutely not, in reality, I feel like I am forced to be in this school and suffer more each day as I continue to come here. Sometimes I don't even have a choice from whether I should come to school or not, my parents mostly make the decision to whether I can stay home or not. Attendance really matters here, because if you don't come to class for a certain amount of days, you will be held back. I feel even more pressured that I am *required* to come to this school every week without being able to give myself time to stabilize myself, yet I will have to continuously live a dreadful loop for coming here to this school and suffer even more. This school needs to have more awareness on how students feel and need to know what they're struggling with. This school may seem that it's "accommodating" and "helpful," but I feel that the school has barely accommodated anything for me as a student who wants to be successful. Oh! And also, this school told me to take my other rating down because they're afraid of people seeing the truth for what it's like to come here.

    When I was sitting in an IEP meeting for my child in our normal school district I was gutted when…read morethey recommended placement out of district. I mean, how could this be? His diagnosis is manageable in public school. It happens everyday. I knew the teachers didn't understand him, and didn't care to. I knew they were mean to him but I fought to keep him in regular school because I wanted him to be with friends in the neighborhood and I didn't want the stigma attached to being sent out of district. His school district turned the screws and fought harder to get him out by destroying his self esteem. Ultimately I agreed to placement out of district to save my son's sanity. Enter Acacia. I was apprehensive at first. Everyone was so nice. I didn't think this could be real after everything we'd been through. But guess what? It IS amazing! My son loves going to school here. He feels valued as a human being and an individual. They teach him at the speed he's comfortable with. Every day that I ask him how his day was he says, "GREAT". I used to be scared to ask him how his day was. My stomach would flip when I saw an email from his school. Those days are over for us. Acacia is where it's at. Everyone knows what they're doing and I regret fighting our school district. He went from someone who was being shamed daily and punished for a neurological problem to someone who has his self esteem and happiness back. He has A's and B's and they LIKE him. I highly recommend Acacia. If you're checking reviews like I was, I know you're not in a good place right now. Hang in there moms and dads. Meet with Acacia as one of your options. You may be scared but everything will be ok - especially if this is where your child ends up.

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    Do you hug your child's teacher like this during graduation? That's how wonderful Acacia is.

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