45th ward used to be generally a great area. NW side of chicago.
....used to be the start of where firemen & cops live.
Wherever it’s at now, Section 8 will turn it into an armpit.
My recollection (having lived in the area over a decade ago) was that Jeff Park was still heavily Polish, with lots of civil-servant types, and a small amount of Hispanic (population and businesses, probably being forced out of Logan Square) migrating north along Milwaukee Avenue. Along with the rest of the NW side, it’s been having crime issues lately, as the illustrious ballerina-mayor stripped police assets from the “safe” zones of the city for (very public) deployments into the war zones.
This isn’t the first time the alderman has tried to bring major housing developments into the area. He had previously backed construction of a highrise apartment development along Lawrence by the CTA terminal (that failed due to a lost eminent-domain battle) and has advocated for other such projects in the same area. He’s totally tone deaf...the residents of Jeff Park don’t want them.