How safe is Rogers Park?

[MannheimMadman]

Originally Posted by tonythetuna

It is very lively and active on Lincoln in the warm months.

For sure. From my place we'd walk to Lincoln all the way from Kedzie and just check out everything.

Something tells me that Sheridan isn't nearly as lively a street in the summer.

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by MannheimMadman

Something tells me that Sheridan isn't nearly as lively a street in the summer.

The parts in Lake View and Buena Park are fairly lively.

[xavier xerxes]

Originally Posted by MannheimMadman

That's the only downside. She is passing all utility costs off to us should we decide to rent it. I absolutely hate paying for heat. The unit has central heating and air conditioning.

I figure between gas/heat in the winter and a/c and electricity in the summer, our housing costs would probably be around $925-$950 a month, if not more.

What I like about renting vintage places is the fact that the landlord or management company often times will pick up cooking gas, water and radiated heat cost. My only utility is electricity, and that's cheap.

Not to mention my fiancee doesn't sound too hot on Rogers Park. She seems to really love how Lincoln Square has a lot of community events going on (like music or fests in the square.) I don't know if Rogers Park offers any type of little book store like the Book Cellar.

So, we'll see how things pan out. I still have about 10 weeks until my lease is up at my current place.

Central heating, meaning its not radiator heat, therefore its GAS,
and the unit has its own meter. Who in their right mind would pay for someone else's heat when you can control it with a thermostat?
The reason heat is included in radiator buildings is because there is a giant boiler room and heat cannot be divided up and charged, you also
have no control over how hot or cold the place, aside from using
a space heater or opening a window.

Rogers Park has Armadillo Pillow a very nice used bookstore on sheridan road which is across the street from a Starbucks,
and there is the 400 movie theatre. Rogers Park doesnt have everything that Lincoln Square does but it has a beach which Lincoln Square most certainly does not.

In August every year there is the Glenwood Arts Festival
which is held on glenwood and morse and is awesome.
Nice local theatres to check out live plays and shows.
Dukes is one of the best bars in the city and has live music
as does the Red Line Tap. Rogers Park has a very active community
locally, and its events grow each year, there is now
a Farmers Market on Glenwood in between Morse and Lunt
held every week in the summer on sundays
and some odd days in the winter fall and spring

Rogers Park has more than meets the eye,
if you make the move I dont think you will be sorry
and you will likely be pleasantly surprised.
Its not perfect, but perfect is boring.

[xavier xerxes]

Originally Posted by MannheimMadman

For sure. From my place we'd walk to Lincoln all the way from Kedzie and just check out everything.

Something tells me that Sheridan isn't nearly as lively a street in the summer.

Its pretty lively by the 400 theatre and Starbucks on Sheridan.
Plus you have the lakefront and beach.
Morse is starting to be a happening place and
glenwood on the west side of the tracks is cool too.
Its true that you dont have the density with
the commercial spots as you do like in lincoln square.
Except for Clark, and yeah its mainly Latino.
I think that will change slowly over the years.

Its a very different scene, and some people
may get culture shock because they are so afraid
or just stuck hanging out in one part of the city.

I really cant think of another place Id rather be in the city
on a beautiful summer day than at the Loyola Park Beach.
You also have the Heartland Cafe little hotdog stand by greenleaf
and the lake.

[tonythetuna]

Originally Posted by xavier xerxes

I really cant think of another place Id rather be in the cityon a beautiful summer day than at the Loyola Park Beach.

I can.