[Drew68]

Downtown is safe. You can go to the Sears Tower or Navy Pier if you would like. In the Sears Tower (now renamed), you can go to the skydeck and see the entire city for $15.

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.)

[nj patriot]

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?

[SeekAndFind]

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 ?

[whitedog57]

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.

[bjc]

Now that map is one political statement!