Unsafe areas to avoid in Chicago?
Mar 18th, 2002 | 01:25 PM
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You'll be just fine. I lived in Chicago for 3 years and never wandered into a bad neighborhood. Put it this way: To end up in the bad part of the south side, you would have had to try really hard to get there. It is a 25 taxi drive from downtown in the direction of nothing.
Mar 18th, 2002 | 06:02 PM
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Studs is right about avoiding the south and west sides. If you find yourself at the Rush/Division area (area with alot of bars) DO NOT go any farther west on Division (past the bar area), its a crime-ridden housing project area. And do not go further south on Michigan Ave than the Museum of Science and Industry. I have lived here for 31 years, my whole life, so I kind of know.
Mar 18th, 2002 | 06:33 PM
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Ask whereever you stay when you get there and don't sweat it in advance. You can go to Hyde Park on the south side, which is the neighborhood that has the Museum of Science and Industry, on the south side. It's a great neighborhood with a great university in it. (Michigan Ave does not go to it, so I think the previous poster meant the Field Museum, which is farther north.) My family lives in Hyde Park and we have regularly taken city buses to and from downtown. Granted, we may be the last white folks off the bus, when we get out near the Museum to our home, but we have never had a single problem, other than a pigeon pooping on my sister's head at the bus stop.
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Mar 19th, 2002 | 12:28 PM
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Chicago is huge in area. Some of these posters are stereotyping and generalizing in a vast way. Most tourists never get out of the Loop or the Near North areas. I myself, and most of my family has lived in various parts of the North, South, Southwest and Far Southern parts of Chicago and now live in Far Southwest Chicago proper, near UIC (for school) and in assorted Western, Southern and Southwest "burbs". Shana knows what she is talking about because she does it.
There are about 50 different neighborhoods in Chicago and all are slightly or greatly different. South side is vastly different in various sections. I travel for medical reasons into almost every area on the "South" side and know which have higher or highest crime rates. The worst crime rates are not always on the South or Southeast sides, as everyone assumes. Chinatown has had very bad stats. Some North areas have bad stats.
You don't really need to worry about this. As a tourist there will be so much to do downtown that you won't be wandering out of the most central area, unless you are here for a very extended stay. Take the Architectural Foundation tours if you are going to Pullman.
There are about 50 different neighborhoods in Chicago and all are slightly or greatly different. South side is vastly different in various sections. I travel for medical reasons into almost every area on the "South" side and know which have higher or highest crime rates. The worst crime rates are not always on the South or Southeast sides, as everyone assumes. Chinatown has had very bad stats. Some North areas have bad stats.
You don't really need to worry about this. As a tourist there will be so much to do downtown that you won't be wandering out of the most central area, unless you are here for a very extended stay. Take the Architectural Foundation tours if you are going to Pullman.
