Where do the artists live? (Chicago, La Grange: apartments, rental market, loft)

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by supernerdgirl

Uptown doesn't strike me as an artsy area. I could be wrong and just haven't looked around enough, though.

It's moderately artsy, but mostly a mix of gays, yuppies, poor blacks, and poor immigrants. Very eclectic.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by long101

x3 on Pilsen. Try to stay as East as possible, closer to Halsed the better.

I think it depends on if they really want practicing artists, or are just looking for a scene. I'd still say the Ukranian Village and Logan Square are more artsy hipster oriented neighborhoods, with the monied hipsters still living in Wicker Park and Bucktown with the well-to-do. Pilsen is still a Mexican neighborhood with a few practicing artists and a burgeoning hipster scene. Real practicing artists are now scattered throughout the city.

[ChiMack]

Originally Posted by surlycue

Stop that. Just because you can tolerate the south Bronx doesn't mean everyone wants to live in joints like that.

guess what everyone doesnt want to live around and doesnt want their neighborhoods to become yuppiefied etc joints like lincoln park and wrigleyville either you ever thought about that?

btw the south bronx isnt really a bad place but i dont expect a person like you to understand that

[surlycue]

Originally Posted by ChiMack

guess what everyone doesnt want to live around and doesnt want their neighborhoods to become yuppiefied etc joints like lincoln park and wrigleyville either you ever thought about that?

btw the south bronx isnt really a bad place but i dont expect a person like you to understand that

A "person like me"? I am from inner city Miami and went to college in Yonkers, which is the Bronx in case you lost your map. I had a great number of acquaintances at Fordham and regularly rode the metro and subway to and from the city. I have spent time in the South Bronx and much like BedStuy, BK or Englewood here in Chicago, I do not think anyone that had the sense or funds to avoid it would choose to live in those areas.

[Costa Rica Chica]

Originally Posted by NearWestSider

The OP said "starving artists", not "babbling nutcases" or "aggressive panhandlers".

There are parts of Roger's Park, around the Heartland Cafe, that might be a little less nutty.

[NearWestSider]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

I think it depends on if they really want practicing artists, or are just looking for a scene. I'd still say the Ukranian Village and Logan Square are more artsy hipster oriented neighborhoods, with the monied hipsters still living in Wicker Park and Bucktown with the well-to-do. Pilsen is still a Mexican neighborhood with a few practicing artists and a burgeoning hipster scene. Real practicing artists are now scattered throughout the city.

The guy is a musician looking for starving artists and you are going to send him to Logan Square?

I concur - IF he's looking to join a salsa band.

As a matter of fact, the neighborhood is SO brimming with local musical talent, they once started a band called the "Orquesta Albany":

Insane Orchestra Albany Nation History - Insane Orchestra Albany Nation Book Of Knowledge

And if the "Albany Orchestra" isn't the most idiotic name for a gang you've ever heard, try the "Stylers", another local neighborhood block club that was kind enough to help me maintain my garage door by repeatedly placing profoundly original philosophical statements like "Lil' Elvis rulezzzz" and "Ain't No Pity in Styler City" on it, motivating me to apply repeated coats of protective coating.

Thanks to Elvis and the boys, I had the best-painted, best-protected garage door in the entire city!

[supernerdgirl]

Originally Posted by NearWestSider

The guy is a musician looking for starving artists and you are going to send him to Logan Square?

there are PLENTY of artsy hipster kids in Logan Square, believe me.

[aragx6]

Originally Posted by supernerdgirl

there are PLENTY of artsy hipster kids in Logan Square, believe me.

Ditto.

[ChiMack]

Originally Posted by surlycue

A "person like me"? I am from inner city Miami and went to college in Yonkers, which is the Bronx in case you lost your map. I had a great number of acquaintances at Fordham and regularly rode the metro and subway to and from the city. I have spent time in the South Bronx and much like BedStuy, BK or Englewood here in Chicago, I do not think anyone that had the sense or funds to avoid it would choose to live in those areas.

i think you lost your map...Yonkers ISN'T in the Bronx and it is not the bronx, it is its own city in westchester county north of the bronx

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by NearWestSider

The guy is a musician looking for starving artists and you are going to send him to Logan Square?

I concur - IF he's looking to join a salsa band.

As a matter of fact, the neighborhood is SO brimming with local musical talent, they once started a band called the "Orquesta Albany":

Logan Square has ten times the artists and hipsters that Pilsen has.