Hey vixen, if you want you can PM me where about in the chicago land area you are going to be in. I know most of the barns in the area and there are a lot of good ones, but also a loooot of bad ones. And unfortunately a lot of them on saddlers row I wouldnt step foot into, but others are amazing.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is served with muscle
And strength by gentleness confined
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
~Ronald Duncan, "The Horse," 1954