Rogers Park - Pottawattomie Park (Chicago, Naperville: lawyer, work, house)

[jden]

I've been searching around the city for decent and reasonable single family homes. Recently said search has brought me to a few homes in the area around this park. Anyone have any personal familiarity with it?

[Drover]

We've already done Rogers Park to death in these forums. It's a highly mixed area and therefore people have widely varying opinions on the quality of the Rogers Park neighborhood to the point that it's one of the more controversial topics in the Chicago forum. The area around Pottawattomie Park is no exception. Here's a sample of threads that have already covered Rogers Park in general, most of which are also applicable to the specific area you're looking at:

• Rogers Park, Ashland and Jarvis
  
• What about this part of Rogers Park??
  
• Rogers Park (Pratt)
  
• Thinking of moving to East Rogers Park
  
• Moving back, Logan Square vs Rogers Park
  
• W. Touhy/N. Paulina in Rogers Park
  
• Rogers Park
  
• Whats your opinion on Rogers Park?
  
• Good areas of Rogers Park?
  
• Rogers Park-
  
• rogers park - bad reputation?
  
• How safe is Rogers Park?
  
• Rogers Park/Andersonville

[dragoro]

I sure wouldn't buy a home there.

[jden]

Originally Posted by dragoro

I sure wouldn't buy a home there.

That sure is bankable information. I did read the other RP threads AND was just curious if anyone had actually lived in the area around this park, specifically just south of it, around wolcott and chase.

[tragicandfancytoo]

Yes, it's true: Rogers Park is "mixed." The city should rename it Mixed Park and Evanston should build an immense electrified fence that spurts anti-mixing venom along its southern border. However, I live in Rogers and I have also lived in a distant land far scarier where uber-mixing is practiced regularly called HYDE PARK. And somehow, against all the odds, I have managed to live my life without being shot or robbed on a regular basis, which is "controversial" to online forum people because they never leave their cul de sacs. Anyway, some people really like Rogers Park. Some people think it's a nightmare from hell. It's on the lake. It has great ethnic food. It's close to Evanston. But Naperville or Barrington... lily white English-only suburban American Dream world? Not at all. Somehow though, families do live here and manage to survive even though white picket fences are scarce.

[ekg56]

I grew up in Rogers Park. My Mom died 2 years ago. We sold her house at Farwell and Wolcott last year. We sold it 3 weeks after we listed it and to a lawyer and a research Dr. The area right around my Mom's house is mix of people raising kids, professionals, and kids that grew up in the neighborhood and wanted to stay. There are also some questionable characters too. But for the year we worked on my Mom's house I was never afraid to walk around the area and saw enough people who felt the same way.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by tragicandfancytoo

Yes, it's true: Rogers Park is "mixed." The city should rename it Mixed Park and Evanston should build an immense electrified fence that spurts anti-mixing venom along its southern border. However, I live in Rogers and I have also lived in a distant land far scarier where uber-mixing is practiced regularly called HYDE PARK. And somehow, against all the odds, I have managed to live my life without being shot or robbed on a regular basis, which is "controversial" to online forum people because they never leave their cul de sacs. Anyway, some people really like Rogers Park. Some people think it's a nightmare from hell. It's on the lake. It has great ethnic food. It's close to Evanston. But Naperville or Barrington... lily white English-only suburban American Dream world? Not at all. Somehow though, families do live here and manage to survive even though white picket fences are scarce.

This post illustrates my point perfectly. You can't even suggest it's a controversial topic with mixed opinions without someone launching into a smartassed screed in reply.