Years ago, Oak Park blocked the east end of all or most of the east-west streets that bordered the Chicago west-side ghettos in order to limit traffic from Chicago to Oak Park.
That was about the time that a guy from Texas who was living in Tennessee at the time wrote a song called "In The Ghetto", and placed the locale in Chicago. I don't think he used Chicago as the location because it rhymed with other words in the song.
The TV version with Ron Ely was around in the late 60’s. It lost me when in one scene he was driving people around in a jeep. Growing up in the jungle amongst apes how did he speak perfect (not the Queens)english?