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06-22-2008, 12:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Lookout Kid
Rogers Park has surpassed Uptown as the north side neighborhood with the highest crime rate. It has been getting better slowly over the past ten years, but significant changes will take decades.
It's a good place for the ghost of a communist revolutionary, however. Alderman Joe Moore is about the closest you'll get to a communist leader in Chicago outside of 46th ward Alderman Helen Shiller. And I say this as a left-leaning Democrat, not a McCarthy-ist red baiter.
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All the Aldermen of Robbers Park have been to the left of Communism. David Orr was and Joe Moore is. That is because the Democratic Organization over there is a bunch of far left radicals- many of them veterans of the Days of Rage in the 1960s- that sit around the Heartland Cafe everyday still dreaming about a socialist utopia! |
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06-22-2008, 06:21 AM
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There's beauty in the solace of not giving a damn.
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Watching Penn and Teller rip Moore a new a-hole on national television was a tasty treat.  |
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06-23-2008, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Watching Penn and Teller rip Moore a new a-hole on national television was a tasty treat. |
Is this on YouTube? I remember the Hell Hole had a link to it a while back... |
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06-24-2008, 01:12 PM
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Rogers Park....Rogers Park....Rogers Park.....not Robbers Park
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11-04-2008, 07:32 AM
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Don't move to Rogers Park, I considered living there hell on earth. I was West of Clark only a few blocks and that wasnt far enough. Touhy and Ridge. The Eastern Orthie Jewish part is a lot better.
Crime up the whazoo, gangbangers, gunshots at night, homeless, the whole mess.
I couldnt wait to get out. I sometimes wondered if my experience of Chicago would have been different if I had lived in nicer neighborhood but I ended up there due to poverty and having to pay cheaper rent in the mid 90s.
Ironically ive heard the rents have fallen.
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11-06-2008, 01:01 AM
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I know people who have been mugged at Rogers Park, over on Sheridan and Howard to be exact, just like two or three blocks before you hit the giant cemetery with the large apartment complex in front of it. Funny thing is, the rich side of the Evanston suburb is right on the other side of the cemetery. Chicago always amazes me how you can be in the worst neighborhood in the city on one block but turn the corner and your in the ritziest part of the whole metro area.
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11-06-2008, 11:57 AM
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Chicago is not the only city that's like that. In Baltimore, for instance, Guilford (nicest) is one block away from Greenmount (worst)
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Originally Posted by Banx
Chicago always amazes me how you can be in the worst neighborhood in the city on one block but turn the corner and your in the ritziest part of the whole metro area.
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11-06-2008, 01:53 PM
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this is a nice park but ive seen better
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11-06-2008, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Uptown, Chicago
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Originally Posted by Banx
Chicago always amazes me how you can be in the worst neighborhood in the city on one block but turn the corner and your in the ritziest part of the whole metro area.
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Rogers Park is far from the worst neighborhood in the city. |
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11-06-2008, 02:35 PM
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There's beauty in the solace of not giving a damn.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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this is a nice park but ive seen better
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Do you have any clue what this thread is actually about? |
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