I need an area in Chicago--I'm talking street names. It has to be bad. Like, really bad. Like, "Honey, let's go the long way, I don't want to go through there," bad. :-) Get my point?
I'm writing a book.
2007-03-21 13:02:45 · 12 answers · asked by Chelsea 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Chicago
The main busy streets are not bad like 63rd S. western. You will find other races driving and walking down the main streets, even waiting for a bus. Its the side streets that you don't find any other races besides African American. Try 53rd S. Justine being bad. The mothers of some of those children did not teach them any respect. Those kids are very rude in that neighborhood. They are always throwing rocks, and when another race comes into "their" neighborhood they call them names related to their color. I cant even pass threw there without the cops pulling me over thinking the only reason I am there is to sell drugs because I am not black so I should not be in that neighborhood.....well that basically what the cops say. I pass threw every neighborhood in south side Chicago and don't really have any problems except what I stated before. But that is the only side streets I go down in the worser neighborhoods.
2007-03-22 03:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by Sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anywhere in the Englewood neighborhood is pretty bad. There are more murders in that neighborhood than anywhere in Chicago. Streets would be around 63rd and Halsted, that's the center of Englewood.
The far west side is also very bad, although improving slowly. But still, anything west of Garfield Park - say, Lake and and Kilbourn (the area of streets there that all begin with "K" is nicknamed "K-Town" and is known as a good place to get street drugs), is very, very dangerous.
A few years back you would have been able to use the housing projects like Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes - areas on the northwest side and east of the Dan Ryan - as dangerous areas, but those areas are rapidly gentrifying and condos are starting to appear. So while those areas are still very iffy, they're improving rapidly.
2007-03-22 13:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by Marc W 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'd have to say somewhere on Madison street on the West side, maybe a little past Damen and Madison. Parts of it are really bad. I remember riding to a TV studio near Oak Park and took Madison almost all the way. It was about 8 a.m. and there were still prostitutes working on the streets as the kids are going to school. There are almost always drug dealers working the corners, bums sleeping on the sidewalks, burned out buildings on certain streets. And city services are a joke. Daley can put a giant bean downtown, but there are potholes and burned out buildings that have been there for years. But I'd say certain parts of the West Side are REALLY bad.
2007-03-22 11:44:25 · answer #3 · answered by bodinibold 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Down Town Chicago!
2007-03-21 20:11:30 · answer #4 · answered by Forest Gump 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Martin Luther King Drive
2007-03-23 22:37:21 · answer #5 · answered by Joel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
K-Town & Madison.
Humboldt Park. You will get a broken bottle jammed in your eye.
26th & Drake. Latin King's and 2-6'ers are always shootin'.
Anything on 18th St.north and south-off of Ashland. Ambrose & La Raza. Two gang territories right across the street from each other. Don't get cought in the middle of that.
2007-03-22 18:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by Ether Fumes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicago!
2007-03-21 20:10:14 · answer #7 · answered by babygirl l 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The West Side, and between 35th and 71st on the South. Western East to LSD.
2007-03-22 13:23:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
63rd and Western is not a place you'd like to be even in the day time.
Or 95th Street east of Western. Or Western Ave north of 95th St.
Or basically anywhere east of the Dan Ryan.
2007-03-22 05:24:53 · answer #9 · answered by Mike T 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Kilbourn Ave Chicago IL!!! OMG bullet holes in houses razor wire EVERYWHERE!!!
2007-03-25 11:11:45 · answer #10 · answered by hairstyle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋