Poverty Stricken and Forgotten: Hopkins Park, Illinois 4K. 

I do plan on going everywhere, might be a while before I get to Texas

I had two uncles that bought property there in the 70's called Garden City. They've since passed away. It was a nice place to visit up until the early 90's from what I was told.

I was just through last week. It's looking good. My great great grandparents were some of the first to settle there. I'm doing a family history right now. Yes, it's always been self-sustaining through there. Kimberly do a little Pembroke history before it gets lost! Please.

The Marshall Family / redboys bar / Lorenzo R. Smith school

Wish there was a creator that would actually interview locals about their relationships with local communities. This guy just slanders places without doing any actual research beyond what Wikipedia says, passing off the locals for no reason. I want to hear what actual residents think

@lukegavin124- Nick Johnson interviews local people in his travels. Also, Peter Santenello.

Years ago in the 90's I went hunting with an uncle out there. I fired some shots from a rifle but it's not like the un violence in Chicago. It still quiet and rural.

Yeah besides all the dead bodies people dump out there it’s a perfect place to raise children.

My friend was found in a house there. He died from being given something(drugged). They left him in the laundry room for almost 8 weeks before he was found. They scrapped his truck, stole his valuables, and covered him up with clothes.

@@bryank971 Sounds about right

I’ll be rooting for ya

Good luck I do wish you all the best but property taxes are shooting up in that area. And the population and ppl moving in are changing it. If you want to build a ranch there your set.

Was born and raised here and still live here. Good luck on reclaiming your family's land. All the land is being bought up by our Hispanic community. They are buying all the old neglected properties and turning them back into Beautiful pieces of land.

Exactly what I had seen since moving here.

We got land out there too

When I first tried to visit Canada the same thing happened to me. 🤣 About 1 hour or so of waiting and they finally let me through. They said it was because it was my first time visiting Canada.

Momence is like there at all its just a small town period, like many in Illinois

I taught there, I was the shop teacher 10 years

I grew up in Illiana heights just east of Momence. Moved to Manteo in 87 an left IL in 96. High taxes no jobs

I do have upcoming videos on Highland, Greenville and Vandalia if those are some of the places that you are curious about.

@@ChrisHarden Yes! Thanks!

Yeah and she didn’t even help the community 🙄

It serve as a refuge for them! I lived in a house that was part of the underground RR. It was always creepy going down to the space! I always picked up on things that should not be picked or seen. As for the toxicity of the town? I lost 5 people out there to cancer. Including my grandfather and a Aunt.

@@KennettaXMoon wow that is so interesting. Also condolences abojt your sister and fam you mentioned in the other story♥️ can I ask her name? Rest In Peace to everyone lost

@@sydneyjackson2962 Her name was Mary Alice Dunbar it was in the Kankakee Daily Journal

I lived on Cemetery road

I know the Baines Rickey Baines is my niece father.

@@KennettaXMoon Rickey Baines is my brother

Bina, Head, and Pappy are my aunt and uncles

​@@Macaroni41686 Bina my sister, Pappy and Head my brothers...

👍🏾 Exactly!

Indiana is the same way, only it goes by the hundred and not the thousand. When I said it was weird that was because it was within the town most of the streets had an actual name when you looked on google maps, but physically most of them are only marked by the number. Michigan goes by mile roads. Not just the Detroit area, but many counties in the state.

I grew up here of n on. In the 80s it was so fun. Ppl were farmers n had large families. My grand parents on both sides was some of the biggest land owners. This place still has huge potential but the ppl have totally lost hope. Poverty drug strictin n dangerous. They all are waiting for a savior.

My wife and I took a great fly-drive vacation in 1996 (flew from DTW to LAS, stayed only one night, went through Southern Utah (Zion, Kodachrome Basin, Moab) and Northern Arizona, both of the rims of the Grand Canyon, crossed over to Needles, then back to LAS to fly home. Shot 17 rolls of slide film. awesome! I was 32 years old, and had always wanted to see Utah.

That relationship between distance and premise varies from place to place. In the Detroit area, it's 2000 "points" to the mile (ending in Memphis, MI, where a house is 81951). In Chicago, it's 800 per mile (and "1/4", "1/2" addresses exist).

Marc when was the last time you were home? "ALL" waiting on a Savior? You're so much more intelligent than that old friend. Some people are set in their mentalities but some are doing the work. Making the change. Don't reduce them to "all", its hurtful and demeaning. Peace and blessings and believe me there is so much more hope than you give us credit for.

Mean Streetz

So do some Chicago streets. 😱

Not the people from the episode, they didnt kidnap and kill someone, it was unrelated. It can definitely be a wild place.

Yeah I noticed that I was wrong on that afterwards. Some map I saw at the time of making this said that Kankakee County was included.... nope.

Champaign yes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J90BnJCNNGs.html Elgin no.

You should go to Elgin. I believe Elgin would be a perfect city for one of your videos

Stay tuned. I plan on filming all of the neighborhoods in Chicago and all of the suburbs. It’ll probably take three different weekends of filming in order to get everything there, and it might be a while before I head over and film and have them all up.

No rush. Just thought I'd throw my suggestions out there while you're still in Illinois

You’re good. I like it when people comment on what they’d like to see.

Haven’t been there yet

Nostalgia Tours Chester Illinois is Home to popeye

@@danielsentertainmentproduc1527 I did go to Chester!

Uh... What? Lol

@@ChrisHarden I used to do storm chasing out that way in the early 90's when I worked in the US. Kankakee had a siren that when off just after tornado went through town. But in Hopkins Park, you needed a weather radio for tornado alerts because there wasn't a siren. In Ontario, we don't even use them at all and southwestern Ontario is tornado alley.

Very sad indeed

The world didnt forget. The ppl ( my parents gen) left for college n most never came bck. I left to go to school in Chicago in 98 n i never came bck. N the ppl that stayed are old now but when we party omg aint no police to shut shit down. This place has hella potential. The only reason i dont live there now is no highspeed internet. When they get that i may come home. 20yrs im still waiting

Nature is what it was when they came.It didnt take over. Them people never made nothing out of it and like it that way for many reasons not good ones.

It's not that the vegetation has taken over , unlike the inner cities, we have chopped everything down. We have always been a green place.

Interesting. Great comment.

You were probably looking at the sand dunes. It's where people who want to ride dirt bikes and four wheelers go to have some fun.

and the Dark side

Probably not. They have guns, too.

I had an uncle that bought land there and grew corn, beans and raised live stock. He's since passed on but it was nice in the mid 70's. You could actually grow vegetables in the sand.

@@phillipgrey I didn't mean to imply that agriculture was impossible, just that it was less desirable farmland than much of the rest of the county. I, too, remember the vegetable growing in the area, and nearby around Momence and St. Anne, compared to the strictly corn and soybeans elsewhere in the county, especially the western half. I remember always being able to smell the onion fields driving along RT. 1 in the Wichert area north of St. Anne.

True they don't care about it and don't go anymore than they have to.

Some of the nicest people I have ever met live out there. If one must fight to survive in that area of course it's going to get a bad reputation. Looks can be deceiving.

@@jessicapatti5611 that's a lie girl. Theres a few good people ill admit. The rest is lies. I've been out there longer than you are old and when it was about thing even though them things were wrong things. We the streets rules were held up out there. If your running out there your drugging and or prostitution too. There not one reason to be out there not to be period. You maybe new meat right now thinking your special getting reeled in for the kill at most. Everyone knows me out there. Im not hiding who I am from you at all. The place is bad even for the good and the life sucked out of it. Everything new fails and destroyed with the life sucked out of it too, there's good people everywhere if that's what your looking for. People raised there generations and even made money doing wrong there are slowly leaving for awhile now too. Its found and based on illegal activities from poor people who moved to a place with absolutely nothing in late 50s approximately and grew to illegal activities trying to survive and deal with living that way to boot. The mayor dirty always have been. Millions of Government funds have went multiple times and how does it look what does it have nothing. Illegals are buying it slowly cuz a majority of the hustler can't make money no more and you got no idea how that truly came about. Nor how many people who lives there work for the cops swearing they never would. Your not old enough to know the true story of there and ill bet ain't been there long enough to say much about it. No offense at all, just don't make bad out as good. Im sure you didn't land out there wanting or doing good cuz there's no reason to be there for that and bad stuff in plenty of better places. Im ran the darkside there for years. I was friends with the best of them out there til they died. Blessed to still be alive no problems out there and not ate up from it. I got no enemies there even after all them years but no reason to be there. Any good one left we get together from time to time outside of there.Things have happened there years ago on a regular basis that top horror for real. No cops or consequences from people actions. Its nothing like it was. That places had thousands just standing all over the streets. People from the city and other states hiding from the law with free movement. The drug there are even garbage now not that drug arent that anyway. If you think your getting liked better out there for that comment your dreaming. Find suzette, she will teach you and school you about there. Most don't last very long out there for many reasons not from there. The place is a joke from the days now. Still not good. So say what you want back to me. It won't hurt my feelings at all I know all truth of there first handed and that nothing to be proud of at all. So yourself a good favor and stay out of there. I know you won't but you should, you find out easy way or hard way choice is yours. However to encourage people to go there is a sin I wouldn't want to answer to the man upstairs for. That place never had or needed advertisements to operate. Hope your not mad, truth is truth

@@jessicapatti5611 to all whos curious to visit this place and new hanging out there. Remember, curiosity killed the cat and a cat has nine lives. Just some advice. Better places to spend your time and money to see by far.

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We also have a a cemetery and our ecosystem when is one of the last of it's kind and the country

They lied to u... aint shit scary about HP.. if u mind ur business u won't have any problems

Yeah that’s accurate that gas station is right across government housing so it attracts the worst of the worst once you get past it, it gets a lot more quiet

You love crap? What’s wrong with you?

He *has* to do that to let racists know when to be condescending *and* racist.

Why u so worried about us out here??