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Drove through South Side of Chicago this week
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:44 pm
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:44 pm
Flew home to houston out of midway, went straight up 55th Street from the lake to the Airport
Holy hell the urban blight is staggering, in the AA parts every house is a brick or stone three story walkup with no air conditioning. Building after building boarded up. Some are occupied with other floors boarded up. No grocery stores, only occasional corner convenience stores. The only MTA is busses, very far from the train lines. No shopping centers, no businesses, and tons of able bodies just walking around in the middle of a Thurs afternoon
By far the worst non-projects urban hood I have* ever seen in person in America
Cross over Western Ave heading west and the Hispanic neighborhoods are bustling with activity, businesses, shops, services all around. The houses are smaller but neater and primary single family homes.
This area where we entered 55th westbound is about is about 20 blocks from the BHO Library at Jackson Park in the U of Chicago. The library and BHO’s First AA Presidency legacy might as well be a thousand miles away from these poor bastards. The irony of all of this in person is breathtaking
Holy hell the urban blight is staggering, in the AA parts every house is a brick or stone three story walkup with no air conditioning. Building after building boarded up. Some are occupied with other floors boarded up. No grocery stores, only occasional corner convenience stores. The only MTA is busses, very far from the train lines. No shopping centers, no businesses, and tons of able bodies just walking around in the middle of a Thurs afternoon
By far the worst non-projects urban hood I have* ever seen in person in America
Cross over Western Ave heading west and the Hispanic neighborhoods are bustling with activity, businesses, shops, services all around. The houses are smaller but neater and primary single family homes.
This area where we entered 55th westbound is about is about 20 blocks from the BHO Library at Jackson Park in the U of Chicago. The library and BHO’s First AA Presidency legacy might as well be a thousand miles away from these poor bastards. The irony of all of this in person is breathtaking
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 9:11 am
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Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:49 pm to supatigah
WTF are you doing in that part of Chicago? Making a drop for Q?
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:52 pm to cwill
Working in Whiting, IN at the BP Refinery
Apple maps took us through the south side to get to midway on surface streets to avoid the horrific Chicago traffic
Apple maps took us through the south side to get to midway on surface streets to avoid the horrific Chicago traffic
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:54 pm to supatigah
You are lucky to be alive
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:58 pm to Pelican fan99
Strangely it wasn’t really like that, I never felt threatened. What we saw was despair. Parts of NOLA you might feel threatened, even in a car.
here was more streets of misery. It was hot and humid outside too so they were moving slow
Of course I would not be there at night and on foot, that is asking for trouble
here was more streets of misery. It was hot and humid outside too so they were moving slow
Of course I would not be there at night and on foot, that is asking for trouble
This post was edited on 6/3/18 at 11:59 pm
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:59 pm to supatigah
The shocking thing about the Chicago ghettos is just the size of them. I hear Detroit is even worse.
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 12:01 am
Posted on 6/4/18 at 12:06 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Hundreds of stone or Brick pre-war three story flats/rentals with no AC stacked on each other as far as you can see in every direction
Posted on 6/4/18 at 12:13 am to supatigah
The Southside has really emptied out over the last 30 - 40 years. There is still high amounts of violence there in pockets, but the thing that’s strikes you most is how empty it is. Those were middle class neighborhoods (Irish, Italian, Polish, Czech, African-American, etc.) 50 or 60 years ago, but the rot crept slowly and swallowed them all whole, and now they are abandoned to a remarkable degree. To your point, the Puerto Rican and Mexican neighborhoods (the southwestern part of the city) are straightforward and unpretentious but entirely fine places to be, for the most part.
The really, really awful violence in a condensed area is in the Westside (Lawndale, West Humboldt Park, Little Village, Garfield Park, Belmont Cragin, and especially Austin), and those areas are, unlike the Southside, still densely populated. You wouldn’t want to be taking a ride to Midway or O’Hare through those neighborhoods even in the middle of the day.
The really, really awful violence in a condensed area is in the Westside (Lawndale, West Humboldt Park, Little Village, Garfield Park, Belmont Cragin, and especially Austin), and those areas are, unlike the Southside, still densely populated. You wouldn’t want to be taking a ride to Midway or O’Hare through those neighborhoods even in the middle of the day.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 12:23 am to LSUTigersVCURams
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The shocking thing about the Chicago ghettos is just the size of them. I hear Detroit is even worse.
I was just in Detroit recently, twice already this year and I have to-go back a month from today.
Detroit is actually bouncing back and making huge strides. They've got a revitalization program going on there that seems to be working. They are still ten or fifteen years away from normalcy but they are getting there, they have a plan.
I was in Southside Chi Town last summer and that place is lost. They are desperate for truth and leadership and bravery.
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 12:57 am
Posted on 6/4/18 at 12:29 am to supatigah
A few years ago we drove up to Chicago for a tournament. We went up several days early to make a vacation out of it and stayed in the theatre district, hit the Field museum, planetarium, Millenium Park, etc. Probably my all time favorite vacation and just an incredible city. Then we jumped to another hotel about 40 minutes away in the suburbs for the tournament. I don’t recall which direction it was or what part of the city we drove through, but it was downright scary. And I’m used to passing by NOLA’s projects with minimal fear. The area we eventually arrived at was fine, but that area we drove through had me on high alert.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 12:53 am to supatigah
It's a shithole created because of people like Obama that have lied to and abandoned the people there for decades.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 1:02 am to starsandstripes
The benes are better in Milwaukee, a lot of those people who abandoned south side moved there and are destroying that city.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 1:15 am to supatigah
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Cross over Western Ave heading west and the Hispanic neighborhoods are bustling with activity, businesses, shops, services all around. The houses are smaller but neater and primary single family homes.
Tal vez reemplazando a los gringos no es tan mala idea?
Posted on 6/4/18 at 1:20 am to trinidadtiger
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The benes are better in Milwaukee, a lot of those people who abandoned south side moved there and are destroying that city.
Good ... let them stay up there.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 1:36 am to supatigah
Glad you survived. The crime is unreal. There are good people in that area and I hate they have to deal with that crap on a daily basis.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 2:12 am to supatigah
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Hundreds of stone or Brick pre-war three story flats/rentals with no AC stacked on each other as far as you can see in every direction
No wonder they be killing everybody. When I get hot I get short tempered and angry too.
Maybe Trump can solve the gun/murder epidemic in Chicago by installing AC units in every home. Creates jobs, cuts crime, a true win-win.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 4:05 am to supatigah
What they need is more community organizers like Obama
Posted on 6/4/18 at 4:24 am to supatigah
Its the baddest part of town. If you go down there you better just beware of a man named Leroy brown
Posted on 6/4/18 at 5:02 am to supatigah
And the sound of the battle rang
Through the streets of the old East Side
Till the last of the hoodlum gang
Had surrendered up or died
There was shouting in the street
And the sound of running feet
And I asked someone who said
"'Bout a hundred cops are dead".
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night it really was?
Brother, what a fight it really was?
Glory be!
Through the streets of the old East Side
Till the last of the hoodlum gang
Had surrendered up or died
There was shouting in the street
And the sound of running feet
And I asked someone who said
"'Bout a hundred cops are dead".
I heard my momma cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother, what a night it really was?
Brother, what a fight it really was?
Glory be!
Posted on 6/4/18 at 5:27 am to supatigah
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I ever seen
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