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Those pictures that Jake posted of the Southside of Chicago is obviously not of 2007. Look at the cars and the quality of the picture. The southside does have it's areas like Englewood and the likes. But it is cleaning up and actually looks much more cleaner than other parts of the city. The Chicagoans on this forum is correct on which side of the city is the worse and it's the westside. The southside gets more attention, but the westside is actually much more worse.
In Houston. I think alot of people have heard of 5th ward. South Park also has a bad rep. But southwest Houston is actually becoming the worse part of the city around Sharpstown.
In Dallas. I would say Pleasant Grove in SE Dallas. Not ALL of Oak Cliff is dangerous but it does have its areas.
In Miami. I would say Overtown and Liberty City are the worse sections of the city.
"In fact, Scranton just went two years without a single murder,..."
how populated is scranton, because, ann arbor hasn't had a murder in five yeras and the pop is 120,ooo
That statistic stands not only for the city proper (pop. 70,000), but also for the surrounding county (pop. 210,000). Neighboring Luzerne County (pop. 315,000) and Wilkes-Barre (pop. 40,000) fared much worse for homicides during that same period.
Again, the southside of Chicago is NOT the worse side. Chicagoans are you telling you the worse side of Chicago in this thread and you are continuing to say the southside.
Columbus, is one of the most put together large cities in the us!
Are you crazy? Columbus' has some crime spread evenly throughout the city, but for the most part columbus' population hasn't sprawlled because of race or crime or money, has not had mass white flight, hasn't had a economic decline.
Columbus' only has a few neighborhoods that are outright poor, and the ones that have higher crime still have homes that are for the rich throughout.
Columbus still have innercity neighborhoods where children who are not poor attend public schools, there are gentrificed neighorborhoods on every side of dowtown but the west. Columbus should actually be a model of how to run a city for the people who live there in today's age.
Again, the southside of Chicago is NOT the worse side. Chicagoans are you telling you the worse side of Chicago in this thread and you are continuing to say the southside.
Spade thanks for the support! Don't bother banging your head against the wall on this though, people who have never been to the south side only have Jim Croce's lyrics to go by. I would recommend anyone to come visit the south side of chicago which is home to the 2005 World Series Champion Chicago White Sox, 2006 Superbowl Bears, half a dozen world renowned museums, the Univeristy of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology and many many other attractions.
Here is a website for more info on the south side of Chicago
The South Side Chicago Board of Tourism (http://www.thesouthsidechicagoboardoftourism.com/ - broken link)
Spade thanks for the support! Don't bother banging your head against the wall on this though, people who have never been to the south side only have Jim Croce's lyrics to go by. I would recommend anyone to come visit the south side of chicago which is home to the 2005 World Series Champion Chicago White Sox, 2006 Superbowl Bears, half a dozen world renowned museums, the Univeristy of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology and many many other attractions.
Here is a website for more info on the south side of Chicago
The South Side Chicago Board of Tourism (http://www.thesouthsidechicagoboardoftourism.com/ - broken link)
by the looks of it when they say the southside and have pics, it's not anywhere near soldier field. it looks more near Midway airport, from my travels I would say that area is pretty bad.
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Neighboring Luzerne County (pop. 315,000) and Wilkes-Barre (pop. 40,000) fared much worse for homicides during that same period.
