Whats your opinion on Rogers Park? (apartment, neighborhood, quality of life)

[snander101]

Would you say it's up and coming ... ? What are the good parts or bad parts?

[Drover]

I don't mean to be gruff, but this subject has been covered in countless threads, at least two of which you started and a third that I specifically pointed you toward. It's getting a little tedious to keep answering the same questions. You're likely to find your answer if you use the search function and look for "Rogers Park".

[snander101]

I guess I just keep asking because I have been getting ALOT of different answers. Don't mean to sound like a pain or anything, I guess I'm just a lil scared/nervous. I'm new to the city and I've heard very good and very bad things. Just wanted to get a lil more input from other people.

[Drover]

You should probably take the "a lot of different answers" as affirmation of what a lot of folks have already said: Rogers Park is a patchwork/mixed bag. You're getting lots of different answers because it's very difficult to generalize Rogers Park as a whole or say which parts are good vs. bad since the neighborhood changes literally street by street. If you like slummin' it, Rogers Park is a good place to do it, because for all its warts it can still offer a good overall quality of life. I could tolerate living there if I were single; I'm more apprehensive asking my wife to live in a place like Rogers Park.

[j33]

You are getting lots of different answers for just the reason Drover said. I lived in Rogers Park for a year and in Edgwater directly to its south for a year. My experiences in Rogers Park depended on the street I was on. Where I lived was miserable, but this was in 1992 (and as a young single woman, there were times I felt decidedly unsafe), so things may have changed and I will make no attempt to give you a current rundown of the neighborhood. I occasionally visit Rogers Park and it looks like it is still the same, some streets are fine, others are not.

If that notion makes you nervous, perhaps you ought to look for an apartment elsewhere.