safety in edgewater 2020 (Chicago, Granville: condo, home, neighborhood)

[chitown202020]

Hello I was researching a condo near winthrop and grainville a lot of the threads about safety in this area are ten years old. How is the area west of broadway and grainville these days? Is it safe enough for a female to walk home at night? I do not see parking so may have to park west of broadway and walk to winthrop via grainville.

Thank you

[VA All Day]

Keep your face out your phone while walking and you'll be good.

[Hiruko]

Originally Posted by chitown202020

Hello I was researching a condo near winthrop and grainville a lot of the threads about safety in this area are ten years old. How is the area west of broadway and grainville these days? Is it safe enough for a female to walk home at night? I do not see parking so may have to park west of broadway and walk to winthrop via grainville.

Thank you

Perfectly fine. It's one of the safer community areas in Chicago.

[Maintainschaos]

It was a nice area in 2016 when I moved away, and since I’ve been back it looks just as good, if not a little better. Edgewater Glen is beautiful, and Granville is a nice street.

[chitown202020]

I spent two hours near broadway and grainville and i thought it was very nice but I had trouble relaxing because I kept getting hounded by panhandlers. I walked around and was approached once aggressevley for money and that was enough for me to decide not to move over there atleast right on that corner where I was going to move. THe people just standing asking for money when you walk by is fine but i was followed and the person would not stop asking this was during the day and I figured I would not feel comfortable if I wanted to go and get coffee at six am like I do in current nieghborhood. I ended up moving to andersonville.

You could not sit anywhere I noticed and have coffee outside the mcdonalds seats were all taken by homeless people outside.

[VA All Day]

Maybe things have changed, but I'd expect more by Bryn Mawr.

Also never went to that McD's but the one on Foster seems to attract some homeless folks.

[Maintainschaos]

Originally Posted by chitown202020

I spent two hours near broadway and grainville and i thought it was very nice but I had trouble relaxing because I kept getting hounded by panhandlers. I walked around and was approached once aggressevley for money and that was enough for me to decide not to move over there atleast right on that corner where I was going to move. THe people just standing asking for money when you walk by is fine but i was followed and the person would not stop asking this was during the day and I figured I would not feel comfortable if I wanted to go and get coffee at six am like I do in current nieghborhood. I ended up moving to andersonville.

You could not sit anywhere I noticed and have coffee outside the mcdonalds seats were all taken by homeless people outside.

Probably due to location by the el. Homeless people in/around that McDonald's were there back when I lived in the neighborhood. One block west/east of Broadway (and further) were never problems.