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It's 106 miles to Chicago: Hosted by Old Pio

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aparch said:
On the upside, the rate of homicide in March was considerably less than January and February!!
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Upside? is there anyone left in some of those neighborhoods to be a homicide victim??

I remember once in the late 1980s or early 1990s having to drive through one of those South Side neighborhoods. It was surreal. Almost every building was burned out and empty, the only ones that weren't had massive iron bars and gates over all windows and doors. Garbage was piled 8' - 10' high in stairwells. Almost no one on the streets, and those that were had a haunted, vacant look. Maybe we need to rethink how we structure our social "support" programs a little if this is the result??
 
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FreshFish said:
Upside? is there anyone left in some of those neighborhoods to be a homicide victim??

I remember once in the late 1980s or early 1990s having to drive through one of those South Side neighborhoods. It was surreal. Almost every building was burned out and empty, the only ones that weren't had massive iron bars and gates over all windows and doors. Garbage was piled 8' - 10' high in stairwells. Almost no one on the streets, and those that were had a haunted, vacant look. Maybe we need to rethink how we structure our social "support" programs a little if this is the result??
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South side isn't the big problem anymore. It's the West side. A good chunk of the abandoned/awful buildings have been razed on the south side. It's odd to know you're still in the City of Chicago limits with such wide swaths of vacant land down there. The West side has an abundance of abandoned buildings for ne'er-do-well's to populate.

East Garfield Park, West Garfield Park, South Austin, Austin, Humbolt Park... those are your dangerous zones. Especially Garfield Park.

The south side still is dangerous also: Englewood, Back of the Yards, Fuller Park, Washington Park. But it's shifted to the West side of town.


Don't forget, Homan Square, located just south of both Garfield Parks, is home to the City of Chicago's "secret" police detention center.
 
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I remember the South Bronx in the 70s driving to Yankee Stadium. They could have filmed the blitz in some of those neighborhoods.
 
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joecct said:
I remember the South Bronx in the 70s driving to Yankee Stadium. They could have filmed the blitz in some of those neighborhoods.
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They did better than that.

God bless Robert Moses.
 
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joecct said:
Robert Moses caused the Dodgers to leave Brooklyn. Plus he never met a cement truck he didn't like.

BOO!
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He also destroyed the South Bronx and almost destroyed the lower East Side, and set back mass transit for 40 years.

He's the Ronald Reagan of NYC. Hopefully Satan has him and the Gipper as part of Hell's human centipede.
 
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Thanks for bumping this one, MTS. Got me to go back and read Old Pio, and I sometimes miss that crusty old SOB.
 
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aparch said:
It's odd to know you're still in the City of Chicago limits with such wide swaths of vacant land down there.
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Moved out of Chicago area almost 20 years ago, when neighborhood kids were getting beaten and robbed on their way home from school by other kids not from the neighborhood who found it fertile hunting grounds. Nothing racial at all, I'm sure, it was merely coincidence, no doubt.
 
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FreshFish said:
Moved out of Chicago area almost 20 years ago, when neighborhood kids were getting beaten and robbed on their way home from school by other kids not from the neighborhood who found it fertile hunting grounds. Nothing racial at all, I'm sure, it was merely coincidence, no doubt.
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Yeah! All those darn rich black kids with stable family environments and schools coming to rob the poverty stricken white kids with broken families, poor schooling. Clearly, I'm sure, there were no additional variables we should consider, no doubt.
 
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Ahem.

tl; dr: when you have no other choices, crime is the rational choice. Want to get rid of crime? Get rid of poverty.

And yet poverty persists directly to the extent that the impoverished are considered "different" and "unworthy," and are denied systemic changes by the wealthiest country in the world. Nothing racial at all, I'm sure, it was merely coincidence, no doubt.

Picture a game with ten players, but only eight chairs. When the music stops, who’s most likely to be left standing? It will be those who are at a disadvantage in terms of competing for the available chairs (less agility, reduced speed, a bad position when the music stops, and so on). However, given that the game is structured in a way such that two players are bound to lose, these individual attributes only explain who loses, not why there are losers in the first place. Ultimately, there are simply not enough chairs for those playing the game.
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But having two fewer chairs is very, very useful.
 
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Bumping, because the Dan Ryan expressway was shut down overnight for the THIRD shooting this WEEK. :eek:

It's also the twentieth expressway shooting since the start of the new year. Expect a constant news stream of shooting and violence from Chicagoland now that the weather is warming and people are getting outside more.
 
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Kepler said:
OK, now this is getting serious. It's starting to affect white people.
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You know, I was discussing infrastructure security with a guy yesterday. I said something like, "If we had a power outage because of a hacker, it wouldn't be the fact that you know, we've had a hacker bring down a portion of the grid, it would be that the masses couldn't find out what Kim Kardashian did five minutes ago."
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
You know, I was discussing infrastructure security with a guy yesterday. I said something like, "If we had a power outage because of a hacker, it wouldn't be the fact that you know, we've had a hacker bring down a portion of the grid, it would be that the masses couldn't find out what Kim Kardashian did five minutes ago."
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When the EMP actually happens, everyone under 30 will go into permanent coma without their screens. We're going to have to repopulate from scratch.
 
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Kepler said:
I'm telling you, man. Everybody's inside cuz RABID BATS!!!!
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Why doesn't Rahm just have everyone fire wildly into the air at dusk? WOuldn't that help control the bat population?
 
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So, my 25-year-old daughter decides to move from Istanbul after two years she really enjoyed there, thinking these are not the best times to be living in Turkey. Mom and Dad feel good about that decision. So what city does she chose to move to in the US? Yup.
 
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Kepler said:
I'm telling you, man. Everybody's inside cuz RABID BATS!!!!
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C'mon, Kep. I know we're all jaded from years of sniping at each other, but this is a pretty facetious response to a large number of human victims, even for you.

burd said:
So, my 25-year-old daughter decides to move from Istanbul after two years she really enjoyed there, thinking these are not the best times to be living in Turkey. Mom and Dad feel good about that decision. So what city does she chose to move to in the US? Yup.
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You have a reason to be concerned. It's likely a good choice for her to leave Turkey at this point, but which hood/burb of Chicago is she looking at?

It's sorta like me telling clients, "Oh, I'm from Detroit" and then having to clarify, "I live in the suburbs. No, I don't have to open carry when I leave my apartment." :rolleyes:
 
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