Just don’t take the Red Line or Green line south, or the green or blue line west. Those are the bad areas.
Here are the good and bad areas so far this year, if anyone is interested.
(Ward #19 is incorrect. It is supposed to be green.)
Posted on 10/03/2009 8:59:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chicago’s vitriolic West Side Catholic leader and one time Obama spiritual mentor Father Michael Pfleger is known by some as the “white” Jeremiah Wright. Pfleger, who has called Louis Farrakhan a “great man” and Rev. Wright “one of the greatest Biblical scholars this nation has,” earlier this year thundered about the hypocrisy of fighting a war in Iraq “when we have innocent children dying on the streets right here at home.”
At home, meaning Chicago.
In 2008 for example, America lost 314 fighting men and women in Iraq while 509 unfortunate citizens were murdered in Chicago. The case this year of nine year old Chastity Turner is illustrative of a city in serious trouble. According to reporter Monica Land:
“In June, Chastity was visiting her grandmother on the city's South Side. While washing the family's dog outside with her father, a van pulled up and at least twenty shots rang out. Chastity was shot in the back while running for cover. She was only nine years old. Two men, aged 17 and 19, have since been charged with her murder and police are searching for a third suspect.”
Land also reports that many of Chicago’s children are having nightmares about the recent carnage:
“Many Chicago parents have kept their children inside this summer for fear they will be killed playing on the street, particularly in Englewood, which is statistically Chicago's most dangerous neighborhood. Children have nightmares about being killed or beaten coming from school. Sadly, for many of them balloons and stuffed animals have come to symbolize death, not joy and celebration.”
Barely a week after the young honor student Derrion Albert was beaten to death in Englewood, a 14 year old high school boy was chased down a few days ago and beaten by three assailants in the North Side Edgewater area of Chicago. The boy suffered a fractured skull and barely survived the vicious attack. According to one witness:
“He was covered in blood. Blood was all over the street.”
On the day after last year’s presidential election AT editor Thomas Lifson received a disturbing communication from a Chicago waitress named “Tina” who was working the late night shift at an area bar on election night. The bar’s patrons included a table of six African-Americans who, instead of leaving Tina a tip, graced her with the following note:
“Tip 4 the Day – Blacks Run the New Black House Bitch!!!!”
We’ll probably never hear about the real reason the International Olympic Committee dumped Chicago from the shortlist of host cities in 2016, but it would be naïve to omit the committee’s concerns about the safety of thousands of foreign tourists. Many of those tourists would have been sampling the Chicago bar scene too.
Writing about the brutality during the Spanish Civil War the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda distilled the essence of his experiences into the following lines:
Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
The blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
In the streets!
Many of Chicago’s kids are having nightmares about being killed, yet Chicago’s most notable son skipped town for a Copenhagen adventure. Maybe this disturbed someone at the IOC too.
>> the [Communist] Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
Nothing like a nice Commie quote to spice up an article.
This put a major hole in the media’s - Barry is loved by the international community! The world hears the same reports and it was their opportunity to correct it. First round knockout!
LA brought in Bratton, Rudy’s PC in NY, to bring the overrated LAPD up to snuff. By all accounts he succeeded. Chi PD is an apendage of the second most corrupt municipal govt in America.( no comes close to the Big Easy) Corrupt PDs cannot enforce the law or keep the peace. Even Detroit’s PD is better than Chi. Chicago’s PD can be brutal, threatening or intimidating, but being an appendage of the Cook County machine, they can’t be effective.
I am sad to report the barbarism on the streets of Chicago, Newark, Somalia, Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan and other 3rd world cesspools is a demonstration of the NATURAL order of man. Left without the trappings of civilization all mankind will quickly resort to the same level of violence. Why these same violent acts are not prevalent in all places is that other people have learned to submit their natural impulses for the benefit of the community.
Chicago is the victim of decades of lawlessness, the breakdown of family, religion, personal responsibility and the dominance of a faceless and anonymous government. There are no boundaries or personal restraints and very little consequences for violent behavior.
What we are seeing in Chicago is the result of the government, both parties I might add. We have rewarded people for their lack of responsibility and turned our schools into a babysitting service. This problem can not be fixed in any short term period. Forty years of social engineering... See what we have created.
If the wait between trains is only 2 hours there won’t be time to see much. It would be smart upon arrival to first locate the gate for your outgoing train, and take a map with you if venturing out.
But honest.
There are many cities I would not venture out at night and some not even in the daytime either like Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, St. Louis, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Good idea ...also to note which exit from the terminal into the street ... come back in a different door and the station takes on a different look ...
I live in Hyde Park for 9 years. Crime, crime, crime.
Union Station, Navy Pier, Sears Tower, Greek Town, downtown, Michigan Avenue going north are all safe. DO NOT GO SOUTH OF THE DOWNTOWN. If you do, do NOT take Garfield Blvd from the Museum of Science and Industry (safe) over to Midway Airport area. Uber dangerous.
Most of the murders take place on the south side, particularly the Prairie District. There are bad pockets out west and up north too, but the southside is murder/robbery capital.
But I digress. Brazil (whether Sao Paolo, the Federal District or Rio) is terribly crime infested. There WILL be robberies and murders of tourists.
So why not the US? I don’t think it is a repudiation of Bush or Obama. I think that Brazil is where the Euro- and Asian-elites would like to party. Chicago? C’mon. Unless Obama promised massive prostitution (like Brazil), he didn’t have a chance.
I wonder how sorry Daly is now that he helped get Obama elected?
Just don’t take the Red Line or Green line south, or the green or blue line west. Those are the bad areas.
Here are the good and bad areas so far this year, if anyone is interested.
(Ward #19 is incorrect. It is supposed to be green.)
A good rule of thumb for tourists is do not venture East of the United Center or South of Chinatown---and you'll be fine.
Oh don't be silly.....Chicago's only averaging about 1.5 killings a day so what are the odds you'll be next? :)
I am confused. When you say do not go into certain areas because they are not safe this is very little information. Are there any other characteristics of these areas that are in common other than they are unsafe? If I inadvertently stumbled into an “unsafe” neighborhood how could I recognize that I am in an “unsafe” neighborhood before I become a statistic?
Rio can be a party town.
Maybe Obummer should have offered them Daytona Beach.
I heard that the famed University of Chicago ( home of a lot of Nobel Laureates ) is on the BAD side of Chicago. Where on the map is it located approximately ?
Of course, the crime map is also a map of racial concentration. Blacks on the southside, Latinos on the west side. But intermixed as well.
Having said that, there are nice black middle-class neighborhoods where crime is relatively low. Like the area south of University of Chicago (56th) and on the lake. But there is no reason to go there. There is the Little Mexico City area which is safe on the main drag, but off the main drag at night can be dangerous (e.g., Latin Kings). The fact is, there is nothing to see in the high crime areas, so just avoid them.
See where it says 63rd St? University of Chicago is around the 54-56st area. It is called “The White Island.” It has quite a few robberies and most of the murders are on the edge of UofC campus, primarily to the South and West.
Remember the Blues Brothers movie? The church and street scene are just south of the campus off of Stony Island. I drove on Stony Island more times than I care to remember, but never stopped. Hey, you can see the Nation of Islam Mosque on Stony Island next to the Chicago Skyway!!!!!!!
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