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Lots of these gangs have been around for years - I remember friends who lived in Northlake, Maywood and Bellwood talking about the L-Kings and the disciples 25 years ago when I was in high school. (If you are really that anxious - you could always send your kid to private/parochial schools).
I live in the fox valley and I have never heard of anything bad regarding west chicago either. |
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I have lived in Elgin for five years now without experiencing a single gang incedent. There is minor gang activity in Elgin, but it is greatly under control with police doing a great job. My children have gone to elgin schools and have had no problems with gangs. Elgin is under gioing significant growth and revitalization. City services are beyond compare. People who have issues with Elgin have not visited recently or just don't like diversity. Because of these people, great deals can still be found in Elgin (but not for much longer)
Keep in mind, like chicago, Elgin has very nice neibhorhoods and some not so nice. A good local realtor can show you around. |
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Sure it wasnt horrible, but gangs were definitely there. Noone was using names to downgrade, just pointing out towns with schools that had gang problems, and yes, West Chicago was definitely one of them. |
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Towns with Gang problems usually have high crime rates. Check the city data crime index to compare.
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Exception: towns with big malls - the big malls skew the crime rates sometimes.
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I grew up here in the Fox Valley and there is a significantly higher gang presence in those cities, South Elgin included. In the late 80's early 90's I know for a fact that Elgin had 400 active gang members with Aurora being close to 1k. Anything north of Carpentersville along the Fox River has been pretty much free of gang activity. Schaumburg has great schools and gang presence is almost non-existent but, it's here too. I stumbled on this forum because my son reported a stolen bike. He is concerned to say the least because the kid that he reported supposedly turned out to be a GDZ gang member and has threatened him. I seriously hope this blows over. I would think less of it if I hadn't met the police in front of the kids house. There were 20-25 teens there that looked the part, to put it nicely.
Last edited by Mainmast; 07-12-2007 at 10:44 PM. Reason: typo |
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Try Evanston is pretty safe with the former police commisioner there. Darryl Pickett was just an unusual wierd incident and it has the city on edge.
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