Rogers Park - which blocks would you avoid, for safety reasons? (Chicago: hotel, most dangerous)

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by xavier xerxes

Well depends on the person, I am seeing much more respectable people in the neighborhood. Some people like it. How will "solid gentrification" ever occur if young respectable women dont move in too?

It won't. Humankind consists of women and men. A neighborhood that is only perceived as safe by young, fairly tough guys is in trouble…at least for a while.

Follow the true artists (people who make their living in the arts)
then gays
then hipsters/hippies
then single or childless married yuppies
then families

[PerseusVeil]

Originally Posted by Larry Siegel

It won't. Humankind consists of women and men. A neighborhood that is only perceived as safe by young, fairly tough guys is in trouble…at least for a while.

Follow the true artists (people who make their living in the arts)
then gays
then hipsters/hippies
then single or childless married yuppies
then families

Is this even true anymore in a lot of places? It's been my experience that the hipsters will pusher further out than your average gay person, although the two groups aren't mutually exclusive, same with the yuppies. With acceptance being higher than it's ever been before, there's really no need for gays to move en masse to another neighborhood. There's also been a lot of articles written about the decline of "gay ghettos."

[K 22]

Outside of the area near Howard Station and parts of Clark leading up to Howard, I personally never found Rogers Park to be that bad.

[jwuk45]

It's very safe. The area around Howard Station is a bit desolate but nothing to worry about.

[Glacier Glider]

Several years later.
How safe is this part of RP?
2015 W Birchwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60645

[MassVt]

Not living in Chicago, but having visited Rogers Park, the contrast does get my attention. I've wandered in the neighborhoods around Sheridan, and actually found quite a few very nice single family homes and apartment buildings. I guess I was in a slightly different area, not where trouble usually occurs..

[uicgrad]

2015 W Birchwood: I grew up about 3 blocks away from there. It may be a little better now but my opinion is that that area can be a 'war zone'. Especially in the summer. Do they still have a blue light 'anti-crime' camera at seeley and howard. Article linked below describes a shooting on that block although it happened in 2015. 7300 Winchester and Wolcott south of Rogers would be safer in my opinion.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2015...ark-police-say

[norfracecar]

Originally Posted by uicgrad

2015 W Birchwood: I grew up about 3 blocks away from there. It may be a little better now but my opinion is that that area can be a 'war zone'. Especially in the summer. Do they still have a blue light 'anti-crime' camera at seeley and howard. Article linked below describes a shooting on that block although it happened in 2015. 7300 Winchester and Wolcott south of Rogers would be safer in my opinion.

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2015...ark-police-say

Longtime lurker, first time poster who lives right by this area. It's improved significantly over the past 10 years. Yes there are occasional crimes that happen--but they are almost entirely domestic or gang/drug related. I have never had any problems walking around the area. Lots more families with small children moving in, the Evanston side gentrification has probably played a role in that. There's a cabaret theater going on on Howard now too, Theo Ubique. The blue light camera that was at Hoyne and Birchwood is gone now.

[jfre81]

By the end of summer, I will be a resident of Rogers Park in the City of Chicago.

Nothing I read here or in other threads about RP is scaring me. It is going to be better than West Jefferson in Detroit and/or Xenia Avenue in Dayton, the nearby main drags of my last two "permanent" home neighborhoods.

What I take from this forum that Howard El station area is the main neighborhood trap, and to expect what comes with that. Can't be worse than than East Dayton. It doesn't look like I'll be even using the Howard station much. Looks like the best way from my base (we'll say Western between Touhy and Pratt) to the Red Line is the 96 bus on Lunt to the Morse station which I don't read about as much.

I'm male, not small. Streetwise. Mind my own. Don't make myself much of a target, other than the DSLR camera on my neck sometimes. I've survived in a lot of places like so.

[glass_of_merlot]

Its fine!