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Where's the worst part of Chicago? |
Travel Info I need an area in Chicago--I'm talking street names. It has to be bad. Like, really bad. Like, "Honey, let's go the long way, I don't want to go through there," bad. :-) Get my point? I'm writing a book. Travel Tips The main busy streets are not bad like 63rd S. western. You will find other races driving and walking down the main streets, even waiting for a bus. Its the side streets that you don't find any other races besides African American. Try 53rd S. Justine being bad. The mothers of some of those children did not teach them any respect. Those kids are very rude in that neighborhood. They are always throwing rocks, and when another race comes into "their" neighborhood they call them names related to their color. I cant even pass threw there without the cops pulling me over thinking the only reason I am there is to sell drugs because I am not black so I should not be in that neighborhood.....well that basically what the cops say. I pass threw every neighborhood in south side Chicago and don't really have any problems except what I stated before. But that is the only side streets I go down in the worser neighborhoods. Others Chicago! Down Town Chicago! any of the west side of the city, over by loretto hospital and cook county. On the North side, Rogers Park is no picnic. Pulaski street, n. clark st in the 6700 block, etc. 63rd and Western is not a place you'd like to be even in the day time. Or 95th Street east of Western. Or Western Ave north of 95th St. Or basically anywhere east of the Dan Ryan. Well, I'd have to say somewhere on Madison street on the West side, maybe a little past Damen and Madison. Parts of it are really bad. I remember riding to a TV studio near Oak Park and took Madison almost all the way. It was about 8 a.m. and there were still prostitutes working on the streets as the kids are going to school. There are almost always drug dealers working the corners, bums sleeping on the sidewalks, burned out buildings on certain streets. And city services are a joke. Daley can put a giant bean downtown, but there are potholes and burned out buildings that have been there for years. But I'd say certain parts of the West Side are REALLY bad. Anywhere in the Englewood neighborhood is pretty bad. There are more murders in that neighborhood than anywhere in Chicago. Streets would be around 63rd and Halsted, that's the center of Englewood. The far west side is also very bad, although improving slowly. But still, anything west of Garfield Park - say, Lake and and Kilbourn (the area of streets there that all begin with "K" is nicknamed "K-Town" and is known as a good place to get street drugs), is very, very dangerous. A few years back you would have been able to use the housing projects like Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes - areas on the northwest side and east of the Dan Ryan - as dangerous areas, but those areas are rapidly gentrifying and condos are starting to appear. So while those areas are still very iffy, they're improving rapidly. |
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