Theodore “Ted” John Kaczynski was born in Chicago on May 22, 1942. In 1952, the family moved to suburban Evergreen Park, Illinois where Ted transferred to Evergreen Park Central Junior High School. He was healthy and well-adjusted, and had socialized well with other children up to this point, but after skipping the sixth grade, he did not fit in well with the older children, and he was bullied by the larger boys. Neighbors described the Kaczynski family as "civic-minded folks" that "sacrificed everything they had for their children".