I’ve been living within Chicago city limits for well over 20 years; take this video with a huge grain of salt, because what you don’t know about Chicago neighborhoods CAN and WILL hurt you.
OK, this was a really good video, but Humboldt Park is a shit hole… the park itself is beautiful, but the fact that it’s basically the seat for the Latin kings will always make it hell on earth
Hi I am a student and I am from India. I will be coming to Chicago in December and I don’t know how to find apartments so can you suggest me some apps or links from where I can find rental apartments.
I lived in Uptown when it was very sketchy. It's much nicer now. But nowadays there's no place to park. I was doing shows at a theater (now closed) on Broadway and sometimes I had to circle for 1/2 hour before I found a spot, especially if there was something going on at the Aragon. Plus, they started making all the side streets permit only. I quit doing shows there for that reason.
Rogers Park is transit rich close to the lake with easy EXPRESS access to downtown Chicago and Evanston. Loyola AND northwestern sandwich the neighborhood It is ridiculously undervalued.
Avondale. Hermosa. Portage Park. Belmont Cragin. All great and underrated Northwest side neighborhoods. Don’t think Uptown is necessarily underrated just a bit sketchy still. People are cautious. Can’t blame them. Old Irving has actually been on the radar for many but might be getting a bit too late to buy some real estate as the prices have been skyrocketing the past few years for its proximity to Lakeview. Good picks though.
@@RobertSpiller Hey Robert. Bronzeville is actually on the borderline between semi-safe and semi-not safe. Not the worst place in the city but crime is definitely present. It’s located on the Southside of the city so shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. I’ll tell you one thing though. It’s recently rumored to be gentrifying with wealthy middle class and upper middle class black individuals just like the neighboring area of Hyde Park already is and has been. Also where Obama lived for several years as he was a professor at the University of Chicago there. If I’m correct, a lot of the wealthy black population from Hyde Park are leaving and settling in Bronzeville for the cheaper estate and rent. If you’re thinking about jumping ship from Detroit I would do so rather sooner than later before an all out mass gentrification happens and the costs start skyrocketing in Bronzeville too.
Hyde Park is a jewel. U of Chicago, Museum of Science and Industry, restaurants, architecture. Bronzeville the home of world renowned Illinois Institute of Technology and minutes from the home of the white Sox..
I grew up in Evanston and have lived in the Chicago area for 50+ years. You forgot my favorite neighborhood where I lived for 16 years - Edgewater! I could write several paragraphs here, so I will leave it to your viewers to PLEASE explore this amazing area within walking distance of Loyola University, the Lake, awesome public transportation, diverse population and restaurants.
I think this is a fine video, but I don’t know if it’s fair to call Uptown and Roger’s Park underrated. If you want to do the whole North/South/West neighborhood thing, I think the more underrated neighborhood would be: McKinley Park in the south - right by orange line, Chinatown, and large park Bucktown in the west - it’s where all the early white collar families are headed And Lincoln Square - more diverse housing stock and has its own central business/community area along Lincoln
I'm a second-generation Chicagoan who grew up on the Southside and moved to Uptown a year ago. LOVE the neighborhood right on the lake beaches, in between Andersonville and Boystown, and full of culture. I'm Puerto Rican, but I still wouldn't live in Humboldt Park as it gets better and worse at the same time.
@GeekRemix ok I quess I'm just not scary and seeing a couple of dudes outside the train station doesn't faze me. I'm from the south side and still live there. This is my part-time crib up here girlfriend. this is suburbia, lmao .all these gay, white, African, Indian people don't exist where I come from I like the different people
Chicago winters can be really challenging, but at least we don't have wildfires, hurricanes and earthquakes. Plus, if and when the water crises hit, we have a whole huge lake!
People overlook Rogers Park because it sucks, in addition to being too far north. Uptown also sucks. These neighborhoods are high crime, the worst two neighborhoods on the north side. Uptown also has the misfortune of bein overrun with homeless crazy people, yet still expensive. Easily one of worst deals in the city.
I've been living in Roger Park for 8 years. My friends and I have never had any issues besides the very occasional homeless yelling at us. And it's incredibly affordable compared to other neighborhoods. Sure, it's far from the loop, but after Covid, I barely have to commute to the loop anymore.
Uptown and Rogers Park almost vary by streets. You'd have to look more carefully for a place to live as opposed to, say, home searches in Lakeview. More remote but nicer is West Rogers Park.
