What chicago neighborhood has the most characters? (costs, change)

[andrew61]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Uptown! This is the weirdest neighborhood in the city. But we also have distinguished residents like Studs Terkel and former Governor "Big Jim" Thompson.

Um, Studs Terkel died recently, no?

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by andrew61

Um, Studs Terkel died recently, no?

Studs died (10-31-08)months after Lookout posted this (04-12-08.)

[fusillirob1983]

I drove through Uptown a couple weeks ago and saw a guy carrying a couple coffees around 10:30 at night. He was dressed completely normal. Then he started walking back and forth waiting at a red light and started talking to himself.

[LastLoveLady]

I would have to say the CTA Red Line.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Studs died (10-31-08)months after Lookout posted this (04-12-08.)

Someone dug up an old thread again...

[andrew61]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Studs died (10-31-08)months after Lookout posted this (04-12-08.)

Oh... Mea culpa! I didn't notice that we had resurrected an old thread here.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Someone dug up an old thread again...

Yeah I did. Your comment slipped by me when you posted it. I felt the need to put my two cents in.

[jdiddy]

Originally Posted by fusillirob1983

I drove through Uptown a couple weeks ago and saw a guy carrying a couple coffees around 10:30 at night. He was dressed completely normal. Then he started walking back and forth waiting at a red light and started talking to himself.

Good story.

[samsamuelson1]

I give Lincoln Park the goofy award after one of their hardened criminals broke out my rear passenger window and missed stealing about 3k worth of stuff that was in there at the time. Whew. Thank god for idiotS!

Originally Posted by scongress1234

Please note, I said Character(s), not character. I mean, what part of town do you think has the goofiest, funniest, strangest, bluntest, just plain iconoclastic people? It doesn't have to be poor or rich. Plenty of eccentric characters that are loaded as well, and I'm not talking liquor. My vote in this?......Bridgeport, hands down. I don't think any other area approaches this piece of history, living history, stuck in the lavene and shirley 1950's, with bars on every corner. Let's put it this way. Bridgeport is the only neighborhood where I actually saw a guy fall off his barstool drunk off his whatever. With a thud too, I might say. In Bridgeport, 19 year old women sound like they are in their 40's, with that whiskey-inflected lower-register usually associated with post-menopausal women, alcoholics, and Lucille Ball. Only in Bridgeport will you see 22-year-old bookies holding court in the local bar, sounding like Damon Runyon with the de's and do's and dere's. Only in Bridgeport can you literally be physically assaulted while umpiring a major league game(happened twice, once a father AND son team, and some other drunk the other time). Only in Bridgeport can youi sell Vienna red hots on the streetcorner for 30 years, like my buddy Steve's aunt Lucy, and consider that a living. Only in Bridgeport can you see the same waitresses, hair pinned back, serving the same synthetic, dryed-out mashed potatoes for 35 years straight. Only in Bridgeport can you grow up never travelling farther north than Downtown(again, that same Steve aforementioned) Only in Bridgeport can you have a higher number of city patronage workers(cops, firemen, city hall, county), than the population of some third world countries. I could go on forever, but I want to hear from you folks......what do you consider the most wacked-out, goofiest, craziest neighborhood?(I'm not ruling out ghettos, which definitely would fit the bill as well)........speak up, Chicago!


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[Lookout Kid]

Broken car windows are commonplace in Chicago. If you have a nice car, don't park it on the street. If you can't afford secure parking, you really can't afford that nice car in the city.