Chicagoist: City Sees More Shootings Thursday Morning

JawsOfJosh

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:35 -0600

Growing up and stomping around Edgewater and Rogers Park as a kid, I always chalked it up to being the simple condition of playing good block/bad block.

smussy

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:16:48 -0600

matty - winthrop and kenmore run parallel to each other, and run through many neighborhoods. when i lived at grace and kenmore, a block from wrigley field, it wasn't really murder/crack central.

fed up

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:54:39 -0600

Hey the friday morning death count just went up 1 dead 1 wounded in Beverly, the chicagoist could start keeping trak this could be fun like a game who lives closest to the latest killings.

matty

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:47:28 -0600

Wintrhop and Kenmore is in uptown and has had a history of social unrest for the last 50 years. I still love the area though. If it wasn't for this blackhole called wicker park I'd move back there.

fed up

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:20:16 -0600

Mikely Whats wrong with section 8?

mikely1

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:08:42 -0600

1. Winthrop and Kenmore are overrun with subsidized and Section 8 housing. If it was all dismantled and sold at market value, the problems would go away. But ... 2. In Chicago it's very difficult to evict a bad tenant. 3. In Chicago, it's very difficult to punish a slumlord. See: http://www.edgewatercommunitycouncil.org/content/view/54/86/

smussy

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:53:54 -0600

riddle me this, chicagoist commenters ... i used to live right by here at bryn mawr/broadway and ridge. earlier in my stays in chicago, i lived at argyle and winthrop. why is it that despite the potential attraction to live near the lake, the property and scene on the lake side of the red line is always major sketchorama? drug deals, crime and overall shadiness. you go west of the el, and it's all tree-lined streets and niceness. what gives? ??

jennyblur

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:01:45 -0600

Please see earlier post. Why would you do this to us Chicagoist? :)