OT - Chicago Visit: Am I Safe in Downtown?
- Thread starter Nittany Ziggy
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No. You don’t. And that quote doesn’t make sense. Since you’re using the “weatherman” to tell you what’s happening in that city. Can’t feel the wind when you’re a thousand miles away. Really poor choice of lyrics. Literally about experiencing it first hand.
Kisses.
Not really. Stats are averages so the extremely violent neighborhoods get averaged with safe neighborhoods. Do you think that makes the neighborhoods the same?
That point goes over your head.
I live in Chicago a half mile from wrigley, I understand the concept of safe and dangerous neighborhoods. Tourists don’t go to the south side. He’s going to a pizza place in river north which is full of drunk idiots he’s not going to the south side. As long as he doesn’t get drunk and fall in the river he’ll be fine. The loop is almost all office buildings, again not extremely violent, pretty dead most nights and weekends other than the corporate happy hour crowd.
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What’s your point? That the worst part of cities are more dangerous than cities on the whole? No shit.
Does Nashville not have neighborhoods? Are there parts of Nashville more dangerous than Wrigleyville? Or Chicago collectively? The worst neighborhood in Nashville is more dangerous than Chicago.
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There are parts of the southside, like Englewood, that are more dangerous than Nashville. I have family in Mount Greenwood, which is southside, and it is one of the safest neighborhoods in Chicago.
When I used to live in Chicago a few decades ago as a much younger man, I lived in Uptown (north side), and it was much rougher than Mount Greenwood.
The point is crime in Chicago is driven by very few neighborhoods. Stay out of Austin, Garfield Park, North Lawndale, and Englewood and you’ll be fine.
Correct. But there is a prevailing narrative that the entirety of Chicago is a hellhole. It just isn’t true.
As far as I know, they don’t have an online map to let you know where people are shitting in the streets like another city I won’t name, so you got that going for ya.
As long as you take these common sense precautions that are found in this Link you will be relatively safe.
