My son and his girlfriend were in that neighborhood that same day. I’ve warned him about going to certain areas of Chicago, or to Chicago generally, but he’s twenty-one, so what do I know?
We are out in the western suburbs, not far enough west!
Now they Uber out here and carjack to return to the hood, this has happened a few times now in daylight hours and within a couple of miles.
Any cash business, gas station, 7-11, donuts... near an expressway on-ramp, is an easy target.
Well, Wicker Park is “trendy” and “hip”, but if you walk 2 blocks south you’re at the projects, and if you walk a little ways east on North Ave, you’ll see crack whores plying their trade. The “hip” area is really about 1 block in any direction around the train station and even then I’d get out by sundown.