visting a place in my past

When I first came to Muncie Indiana is was afraid of having to live here. On the four hour drive here from Joliet Illinois all I saw were fields, grass, and trees. There was never any point where we passed big buildings or anything that looked like where I came from. I had been told before that Muncie was basically in the middle of nowhere, but I was shocked when I actually traveled through the town and found a mall and a lot of similar stores and restaurants that we had in Illinois. But there were also some stores or places that are big here, that I have never heard of. Cheeseburger in Paradise for example is a very well known and loved restaurant in Indiana and I have never heard of it until now. Even since living in Muncie for months now, I still have not seen any big buildings or anything that would compare to Chicago. Although I live on campus and not in the neighborhoods of Muncie, it seems as though there aren't many oppurtunities  for people here in Muncie as there would be in big cities , such as Chicago.