What will Chicago be like in the distant future? (Berwyn: sales, employment)

[Dutch1976]

200 yrs?

A bunch of people hooked up to virtual reality machines of some kind is my best guess. Not in a Matrix kind of way but in an entertainment kind of way.

[Boddicker]

Hymns, the national anthem, and reading someone's Miranda rights will all be rapped to a good hip hop beat.

The Chicago Symphony’s orchestra hall will have been burned down by BLM after accusations of white supremacy.

The city will be globalized and that charming “Da bears” working class Chicago accent will not even be a distant memory, because old SNL clips will have been canceled for having once attempted humor and satire, which will be outlawed in 200 years.

[sf_arkitect]

In the distant future, Bronzeville and East Garfield Park will be gentrified. The city is already laying the ground work for this (Michael Reese mega development), Damen Green Line cta station, and more. The expanded downtown area of Chicago will be larger and taller than it currently is.



I am crossing my fingers that the city will eventually build a circle L line or some kind of heavy rail cross town line.

[G in MP]

Originally Posted by sf_arkitect

In the distant future, Bronzeville and East Garfield Park will be gentrified. The city is already laying the ground work for this (Michael Reese mega development), Damen Green Line cta station, and more. The expanded downtown area of Chicago will be larger and taller than it currently is.



I am crossing my fingers that the city will eventually build a circle L line or some kind of heavy rail cross town line.

Right on, finally somebody with some imagination! How do you picture the rail line?

[dcisive]

The way the entire country is going as a guideline I'd say Chicago is really in for it. Frankly I'd even go so far as to say the next 20 years is going to see a tremendous decline and an even more significant exodus out of Chicago (and Illinois altogether). it's already begun. Count on it getting worse. If you enjoy your rose colored glasses don't let me mess that up. I hope your bank account is ready to accept even more absurd taxes and crime.

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by BRU67

The media and "progressive" politicians are all about "social justice" issues now. It generates page views, stirs controversy, and gets votes. Plus, the younger generations seem a lot more sensitive and more emotional about this than past generations were, so that messaging really resonates with them.

15 years ago, to be quite blunt, few middle and upper middle class people cared about black on black violence, as long as it wasn't happening by them. African-American neighborhoods weren't on the gentrification radar, so it was really a distant, almost foreign, problem, even if you only lived a handful of miles from it. Also, police were more free to contain it 15 years ago, so things like car jackings and Mag Mile muggings occured less frequently.

So it's not that crime is worse than it was in the mid-1990s. It's just that we view it differently now. And I think this would be a very good thing - if our current political climate allowed us to speak openly and honestly about the root causes. But, alas, that seems like it's a ways off.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...oee-story.html

According to current policing boundary maps, the four districts with the highest per capita homicide rate in 1991 were Wentworth, Englewood, Harrison and Central. The lowest rates were in the Lincoln, Chicago Lawn, Albany Park and Jefferson Park districts.

Fast forward 30 years, and the four least-safe districts, according to the 2020 data, were Harrison, Englewood, Austin and Gresham. The lowest homicide rates were in the Lincoln, Rogers Park, Jefferson Park and Town Hall districts.

So while the 2020 citywide homicide rate remained below 1991 levels in 2020, crime lab analysts said this is not true of the four most violent districts.

In 2020, the per capita rate in the four most violent districts was 119 per 100,000 residents, compared with 87 per 100,000 residents in 1991. In the safer districts, it was 4.6 victims in 2020, compared with 6.5 in 1991 — which means those districts got safer.

In short, overall crime is down but that's only a small part of the picture. Actually, the safe neighborhoods have gotten safer which has offset the increased violence in the poorest areas. That is not surprising considering the demographic trends in Chicago since 1991.

The citywide rate really does mask what’s happening in communities,” Smith continued. “ ... And if it’s the case that (the homicide rate) is even worse than it was in the ’90s in some neighborhoods, that should make us all think about where we are as a society.”

[Nearwest]

Originally Posted by sf_arkitect

In the distant future, Bronzeville and East Garfield Park will be gentrified. The city is already laying the ground work for this (Michael Reese mega development), Damen Green Line cta station, and more. The expanded downtown area of Chicago will be larger and taller than it currently is.



I am crossing my fingers that the city will eventually build a circle L line or some kind of heavy rail cross town line.

The Damen Ave. Green Line station is at least 2 years behind schedule. It was supposed to be completed sometime in 2021. The new projected opening date is in either 2023 or 2024.

The CTA stopped work at this site even before the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. Dim lighting, damaged sidewalks, and a vacant lot on the SW corner of Damen and Lake are still present at this location, which was to serve as a staging area for construction of the station.

[LocalTV]

I'm guessing it'll be the new Detroit if Minneapolis doesn't take that title first.

[atler8]

Originally Posted by LocalTV

I'm guessing it'll be the new Detroit if Minneapolis doesn't take that title first.

Talk can be cheap, as the old saying goes...
As you are looking in from tiny Bristol, Tn. and are "guessing" as to the future of Chicago, I have to ask what have you personally experienced first hand in any of the 3 cities mentioned now by you?

On my end, I've visited one of them a couple dozen times, lived one county west from the city center of another and visited the 3rd one a couple of times.
And more recently, I've lived 42 years in yet another major urban area.
As such, I don't take to the cheap talk and piling on that's now politically correct to throw out at urban areas and which largely originates from the the right wing, elitist, & fully vaccinated millionaire tv opinion show hosts.

[LocalTV]

Originally Posted by atler8

Talk can be cheap, as the old saying goes...
As you are looking in from tiny Bristol, Tn. and are "guessing" as to the future of Chicago, I have to ask what have you personally experienced first hand in any of the 3 cities mentioned now by you?

On my end, I've visited one of them a couple dozen times, lived one county west from the city center of another and visited the 3rd one a couple of times.
And more recently, I've lived 42 years in yet another major urban area.
As such, I don't take to the cheap talk and piling on that's now politically correct to throw out at urban areas and which largely originates from the the right wing, elitist, & fully vaccinated millionaire tv opinion show hosts.

I've driven through Detroit and Minneapolis, and my grandparents are from Chicago.