I remember back in the day when people would always keep the alley clean, the city would have city workers keeping vacant lots clean, people who were dirty would get a citation . Now it's a hot mess
SO TRUE 👍🏿 GOID BONES ~ all they need is some financial backing and someone’s vision , May lift the whole area ( non- gentrification ) but this might be where they let those border busters accumulate ! 😡
@@brucebeamon5460honest question here. Why is "gentrification" so frowned upon? I live in a "mixed" (I hate the words people use) and everyone in our little area gets along.
The area reminds me of where Spike Lee shot his film Chi-raq. He used a couple shots near the L track (Green Line) with Samuel L. Jackson standing underneath it. I think it was in Englewood.
In the city of Chicago, currently, over 90% of black students are functionally illiterate. In fact, there are 10 high schools in the city in which not one single black child can read or do math at grade level. Of the 21 black majority schools in the city, the school with the highest percentage of black students that can proficiently read is 2.3%. Eighteen of the other schools are sub 2% with 10 being at 0%. It gets worse for math with only 3 schools that are above 1% student population that are proficient at math. The rest are sub 1% with most being 0% able to do grade level math.
Thank you for uploading videos but it is sad to see desolate streets in Chicago, garbage everywhere, garbage containers on every corner and no one cares about cleaning the streets, there are only streets where you can see children or adults smoking marijuana.
People are already buying these places up... look at all the contractor trucks parked around and fresh boardup on the buildings. This area is probably going to gentrify in the next 10 years. It's been a long time coming... this area of town has so much going for it.
@@JlcdeluxeJlcdeluxe Close to the lake, close to U Chicago, close to Hyde Park and Jackson Park, 10 minutes to the loop, 15 minutes to Midway, existing transit infrastructure, beautiful old brick and stone buildings.. that part of the south side is a real estate gold mine. We just need to replace the criminal element that lives there now.
Surprised to see the amount of vacant properties… but the allies are clear/clean enough to drive though them that’s a view not normally seen in these types of videos… I used to drive there 2 or 3 times a month 07 , 08 period..pretty sure I would not make those trips NOW DAYS…. TOO MUCH NEGATIVE GOING ON
Statistically, Chicago isn't even the worst city in the Midwest. Just a old giant city with gang culture because outside of those areas, Chicago is a nice clean city with a beautiful downtown.
Blacks refer to the ghetto areas they live in a "trenches" because they hate each other so much that they've made a war zone out of the places they rent from others.
@ProductOfCookCounty7963 Olympia Fields. My dad's mom lived in Harvey and I had friends in Blue Island. Thankfully I didn't actually live in the South Side. Born at South Shore Hospital too.
@@kendalson7100 It’s a shame I used to work produce delivery for a big company just months ago before they shutdown. Beautiful homes and apartments in South Shore but ridden with crime. Harvey is another place I really don’t want to be while delivering but Blue Island is nice including Olympia Fields but that’s really far from me being the Midway Airport area.
@@ProductOfCookCounty7963well I'm glad to know Blue Island and Olympia Fields are still hanging in there. After the factories and steel mills and oil refineries shut down things went bad. South of Chicago was where working people lived and there were just fewer places to work. Progress I guess, right?
3 minutes in still haven’t found at least 2 places to work aint no opportunity in Chicago that’s the problem they taking everything away for us to take each other away
Rich people should buy property in Chicago and raise the rent where poor people can’t afford it. Have middle class families move in when all the poor people have to relocate.
Let me question something do you know where you will go after you die? If not let me say you can have a choice to either go to hell or heaven see 2000 years ago there was this man named Jesus who died on the cross for our sins and rose alive 3 days later all because he truly loved us he died for us so I question you now do you truly believe in Jesus or do you live for the world turn to Jesus Christ trust in him Christ has way much more to give than the world he loves us turn to Christ
Thanks for posting. Some formerly nice buildings in this area. F'ing shameful that there is no pride for taking care of your sh*t either (for the last how many decades there...) Obviously the city leadership doesn't give a damn anymore.
The boarded up building are from absentee land lords, who usually live out of state. They took advantage of the housing, over leverage the property, & left it.
@@123Rockchildsome people. But they are definitely not going to take care of it, if they know the landlord are letting it slip into foreclosure. On top of that the city will not do its part either in communities like that.
And this particular vid is a dose of reality most Americans need to, but do not want,to view. 2:50 ... 100+ year old brick homes, beautiful but bleak as fck.
It is! If you look at the homicide crime map of the Southside vs The Bronx there's a vast difference even with other crimes. NY probably only has more simple/felony assaults, burglaries, and theft due to its sheer size in population. NYC is safer than every major and small city there is. Chiraq really lives up to the name. Even when they tell you "crime is down" in Chicago their numbers still double, or triple the average city. 👀
Let me question something do you know where you will go after you die? If not let me say you can have a choice to either go to hell or heaven see 2000 years ago there was this man named Jesus who died on the cross for our sins and rose alive 3 days later all because he truly loved us he died for us so I question you now do you truly believe in Jesus or do you live for the world turn to Jesus Christ trust in him Christ has way much more to give than the world he loves us turn to Christ
