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Englewood born and raised... grew up on 59th and Throop. So much good and so much very bad happened to me and my family on those streets... dont know rather to smile or cry while looking at this drive thru video and reminiscing 😔
@@bigsleez8655 I no longer live there bro... haven't for a very long time. my entire family made it out... honestly I couldn't even tell you. Quick answer Mayors and ward aldermans haven't cared about Englewood or the people of Englewood for a very long time. Zero public pressure to do anything about because it's not on anybody list for gentrification
I am 57 and grew up on the Southside. Damn the images in this video brings back memories. Sadly it looks like a ghost town now making it hard to believe that back in my childhood days the parks were green and the neighborhoods were filled with kids playing outside on virtually every blocks . There were black owned neighborhood stores in every hood where 50 cents could get you a bag of candy. Political administration's changes made them all slowly disappear. Now there are vacant lots everywhere and despite the media making people believe the gangs changed all of that it was government neglect, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas, stopping of city services in those areas all for the purpose of bringing property values down making those areas ripe for gentrification. The project building seen in the opening of the TV show "Good Times" are all gone, the people are gone and now their are high rent buildings and condos there with Starbucks and white people jogging with exotic dogs. It's the same thing happening all over this nation with places like Brooklyn NY being another example. It's sad looking at the Southside today because it doesn't show the life that was once vibrant in those areas. My family lived from 56th and Normal through 62nd and Normal from the late sixties through the mid 70's. Today that area is a vacant lot bought up by the railroads for pennies all of my childhood memories wiped away by bulldozers and surrounded by chainlink fences. 😢
@edwardthames9003 I wish he would have shown the two parks within Englewood. (Hamilton Park and Ogden Park) They are still GREEN and various programs are hailed within them. In fact, Ogden Park has a new outdoor area/field were youth football and soccor ⚽ games are played. He was just driving through alleys and certain blocks. Does Englewood need help? Yes, and many are trying to improve it.
@@autumnsmom1117 yeah I think Ogden Park is the one right across the street from Sherwood where the field house is. We used to go in the field house for tumbling and other activities. I learned to read well at Sherwood and I recall being excited when the mobile book truck came to the school. There I got to read the newest Curious George books and others. I even recall one time that an African King came to visit the school and we took a picture for the newspaper in front of the school with him. After fifth grade we went to John Hope for sixth through eighth grade. I know I'm rambling but the video brought back so many memories.
Illinois was the 5th most populated state. It's now 6 or 7. Chicago lost a large chunk of people. At peak, it was over 3M. Now it's almost neck in neck with Houston. Around 2.3M. Chicago is trying to stay at #3. While Houston is at #4. Houston will be #3 at some point, very soon. I'm from Cabrini-Green. Left years and years, decades ago.
@@yourmommahouselies lol. You obviously don’t know the history of Illinois corruption for the past 80 yrs . You do realize that our government is responsible for creating solutions and funding money to these neighborhoods right? When was the last the city of Chicago has ever done anything good for englewood, lawndale, auburn gresham, little village, Garfield park,k town, rose land, stony island, calumet city, the gardens, o block. Nice try there
I live in a village in Gloucestershire in England and we had a spate of litter dropping and weeds growing from the gutter. However, after a meeting in the church hall we all decided to get together one Sunday afternoon and tidy up. I realise it's a bigger job here but then you do have more people to call upon who don't appear to be particularly busy. It's amazing what a bit of organisation amongst neighbours can achieve. Sharing a nice cup of tea and some homemade cakes afterwards certainly encourages kinship.
I am also in the UK (London) and I feel you are being a tad optimistic regarding a neighbourhood clean up in this area. It has gone way beyond pulling a few weeds and picking up litter. The whole place looks as if it should be condemned. I can only imagine what the crime stats are.
The people here have lost all hope. Managements property here and there are shootings go on between houses. We tried to put up outlet mall and idea was shot down.
Yeah, well you are talking the descendants of African tribes when you talk about urban blight in America. You don't sit down and have tea and crumpets with that sort. Even the cops don't want to go into areas like Englewood. They are effectively "no-go zones" and if you are the wrong race or wear the wrong gang colors, venturing in to invite them to tea and discuss cleaning up the area, you'll end up dead in a back alley somewhere.
Check out the wrecked neighborhoods of Detroit. In 1950 it was a fantastic place - 20 years later it wasn't. It isn't that the neighborhoods go downhill because they are old. Many neighborhoods on the north shore are old - but they are beautiful. It is the people living in those neighborhoods that determine if they are beautiful or decayed. If they don't have any pride in where they live, it becomes a decayed 'hood.
I notice how Charlie boi NEVER just keeps a block more continuous. HE STOPS going when homes look good again. HIS WAS to make more $$$ keeping it on worst block and alleyways that Chicago has plenty of as is its grid. Yes these were elegant neighborhoods. Once a minority moved in Realtors knocked on doors warning the next blocks residents to get out and sell NOW or lose lots of money called BLOCKBUSTING. They still lost 10 - 20% and more selling quick PROMOTING WHITE-FLIGHT that made these areas POORER, taking the retail with them and de-industrialization. Comes good people just as the old Irish and Italian rip-roaring gang days occurred in Chicago as they had the HOODS them raising children in gang infested areas and at least then.... ww1 and ww2 dispersed them getting all them young men out of the hoods and many did not return or moved on getting GI loans to buy homes. Minorities in the military COULD NOT GET GI LOANS and certainly not for their REDLINED Neighborhoods by the government for too high risk and banks would not give loans and agencies charging extra-high interest moved in. WE CREATED OUR OWN MESS and generations did not fix it. Corporations abandoned them with good Union middle-class jobs that BUILT THESE ELEGANT ONCE AREAS. Now these UNDERCLASSES FEED UPON THEMSELVES. Though much has been done and worst areas leveled and back to prairie land one day to be new-builds if America does not implode itself with the help of Russian to Chinese bots promoting uprising to Ciivil war here and to fix us we must destroy ourselves.
I'm from Chicago and man, what a dump.. The sky is depressing, the trash Is depressing, the boarded up windows is depressing. Nothing about that area inspires life or fun. Just brick building after sad brick building.
I used to work in the area in the 90’s and every house & apartment was occupied. It looked nothing like you see today. During the daytime you see rarely see anyone outside.
@@soniajulie6465 Englewood was a blue collar working class community. In the 70s factories 🏭 started closing, moved out of the city and country. People lost jobs. Businesses started leaving the community also. The 80's saw the crack epidemic and people really started leaving in droves.
@@autumnsmom1117 In the 80's & 90's our area was full of People, life & fun it was the hood but plenty people had businesses, People started to leave in the early 2000's
CharlieBo...please show some corner street signs when you're filming. It would give all of us a better idea where you are. Thank you, and lets be careful out there!
@@sowhat3245 I've been though the South side of Chicago many times, picking up and delivering freight. So, I know what to do and not to do south of 31st St., and east of Cicero Ave. .
Lots of hispanics are buying those broken down houses and fixing them up especially by Sherman Park(MoeTown) in englewood my neighbors used to be all black now the whole hood is almost all hispanic and with the migrants coming in englewood is gonna be more hispanic in the coming years
Englewood Raised.... I have lived on several of these blocks mainly 67th and Sangamon Damn the Area looks so desolate now, All the big brick buildings were once full of people, Life & memories the footage Howards Chicken shack on 69th street had some good food. Good times & bad times Englewood helped mold me taught me how to survive & live anywhere
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Englewood is changing a lot. For the better. There are a lot of new developments that are coming, and being built currently. Show the nice parts of Englewood! Not all of it is run down.
I’m from Chicago and from the 100s on down to the low end some areas are run down because there is no Jobs in the areas , the economic infrastructure in these areas are bad and it caused alot of poverty and run down buildings because people can’t really afford to put alot of money back into their properties.
Such a depressing looking place, with many depressed and unhappy people. Nobody wants to help this place, not even the people who live here. I seriously do not see it getting “better”, hard to imagine any big corporations or businesses moving in anytime soon neither.
You need to speak with individuals who live in this area. Yes, this area needs help, and there are many within this community who are helping. When resources are not properly allocated to certain areas, this is the result.
Anyone notice the large amount of vacant lots? They are the result of buildings being torn or burned down either by the city's "Urban Renewal" of the 1960s, or the MLK riots of April 1968. Now these lots have 50-year-old trees growing on them or just being overgrown.
Yes, those lots are only in the black community. Hispanic communities are wall to wall single family homes. Same with business, wall to wall business in the hispanic community. Billions invested into the hispanic community and nothing for the black....
Chicago has policy of tearing down vacant and dilapidated houses. This has been going on for decades. The 68 riot primarily took place in the west side
Where are we going? If it's easier to infiltrate foreign countries with the help of political intrigues and military bases around the world than to put things in order in your backyard? Where have the funds from depleted resources gone? The decline of hegemony.
Great video Charlie Bo. Wish you had driven by 63rd and Wallace. That's the sight of the infamous Murder Castle. A post office sits on that spot today.
@@fleurmartin it can be Googled. It happened in the 1890s. Chicago was hosting the World's Fair. A man named Midget built a non descript building at 63rd and Wallace. Inside was a chamber of horrors. The were sound proof rooms, an acid vat, a dissection room and others. I think he roughly killed about 8 women. He fled Englewood. The building burned soon after. A post office stands on it's spot today.
@@peterdelestrez8880 They don't know how many women were killed there. Remember, the woman that Midget bought the building from, suddenly came up missing. Many women came up missing during that time, NEVER to be heard from again. Legend has it, that some parts of the killing chambers are still in the basement.
Is it black owned? And is it quiet with no hip hop playing? Seriously i want to know. Once in awhile I like to go to coffehouses thats not *$. With good customer service
@@fleurmartin I think a white guy owns it. It’s a very nice, low-key atmosphere and the workers there are all really friendly. The prices can’t be beat either.
What's the point of you doing this? Only our people love to show the worse of ourselves!! I never see you drive through a middle class Black neighborhood!! Smh!!!
I'm surprised Rock Star hasn't. "Grand Theft Auto: New Madrid" (after the New Madrid fault line that runs through southern Illinois), like what they did with LA and the San Andreas fault.
I resided at 6831 s carpenter st back in the early sixties and the neighborhood was nice and all the buildings were kept up. The building that i resided in is still there and looks good.i would like to buy it for memories i am retired and relocated to Blytheville Arkansas.
No shops, no convenience stores, no restaurants, no neighborhood Pubs, no CVS, Walgreens, gas stations. everything the rest of us take for granted. So sad.
There is a Walgreens on 63rd St South Halsted Parkway, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and other shops, as well as gas stations that were not shown. In addition, two parks are within the Englewood Community. Ogden Park and Hamilton Park. Factories started closing and leaving Chicago as well as the Country by the 70s, with it came job loses. You really started seeing the decline by the 80s, with people moving out the community especially when the crack epidemic occurred.😔
@@billkussmaul2940 No problem, I wish the videographer had shown more of the community. I hate seeing its decline as well. There used to be the largest shopping district second to downtown that was once located in Englewood. Now, Kennedy- King Community College is located where it once stood. If videographer had driven down Halsted St., 55th-75th as well as Racine, Ashland, Wentworth, 63rd, 67th, 69th, & 71st more things would have been shown. The community does need help, and you have RAGE (Residents Association Greater Englewood) and other organizations that are really trying to make a difference.
Ain't nothing but heroes and fallen soldiers over there the neighborhood is absolutely legendary the city government the city municipalities does not care about the conditions of my community voting is a joke politics is a joke I swear when and if I'm able to do it I'm going to give back to my community😢😢😢
I’m from Englewood and it makes me sick to see what has happened. White Englewood 69th street area was a great place to grow up. The Italians kept it crime free! The parks, the Italian fests, the schools, the freedom all gone !! Sickening and sad blacks and whites could have lived in harmony but the city red lined and segregated and black women settled for bums not men and the children suffered in fatherless homes . You think history would have taught us something but it still goes on! 2024!
Great video, Charlie, I love these, thank you! (Also, every time you go into those narrow little alleys, I'm always so worried that you'll be jumped and murdered... even though, if that had happened, we would obv. never see the video. But pls stay safe!)
I worked in Chicago subs for yrs as a union carpenter, revamping abandoned schools under the Obama no child left behind plan. Engl, S-Calumet, Gary. And so on. Also converted Wamu banks into Chase after they closed at 7pm till 4am. I bought a ten yr old chev expess van and left the windows down when parked. Shit was crazy as a 27yr white guy from a small rural town.
For Centuries US has helped other countries while their own people suffer/live in poverty and don’t invest in "their own country." Chicago is trying to house “the immigrants" they’ve allowed to come here But the homeless that have been here for YEARS remain homeless. Find/ provide housing and jobs for people that are from here First and then move on to the "immigrants!!"
The sad thing with the shortage of affordable housing so many of those boarded up buildings could be rehabbed or at least torn down. All of this is intentional. You have alot of absentee owners who get to write off the taxes on these properties and leave them looking like this and it makes the whole community look bad. But there are some non-profits trying to rehab homes for home ownership its just that its so many abandoned properties.
I really don't care how bad people try to make my city out to be. I love Chicago. There are cities with true hell holes, but i get it this give everyone a chance to look down on something while ignoring their shit. Pitiful
I'm a white dude and it took me many years to realize that the fear of black people is white drives views to channels like this. There's some curiosity sure. But if it were a true interest in these neighborhoods, there would also be deep sadness for what black people in our country have had to and continue enduring, and anger that these environments were designed and kept this way by white people. My family is from Chicago and specifically left the neighborhoods with black people like MANY others. And black people were excluded from jobs etc. etc. It could take sometime to realize all of this and it's very painful to realize, but anyone reading this I hope this is a small seed on your journey of broadening your awareness of what African Americans people are put through.
I feel for the homeless animals like cats and dogs - at the mercy of some of the people that dwell here 😢. I lived in a area like this once and took home a cat that was homeless.😢😢
@@alposingleton5744 he ain't gonna go thru the trenches...I thought fasho I'd see the old quick stop on 66th and Halsted across the street from spirits
Compton not even the worst looking city in the LA area. For people that don't know Compton was made famous from the 80's and 90's Gangsta Rap Movies. It was worse back then just like everywhere else but never as bad as they portrayed. Compton is not even on the list of the worst looking cities, that would be places like Philly, Baltimore. Compton is a suburb of LA and it's about 75 to 80% Mexican.
I visited Illinois and I asked my people to take me to Chicago so I can see if it is all that they make it out to be on social media and the news and man oh man they were spot on it even worse you have so many abandoned buildings break buildings I mean it is so depressing I left crying and very sad because I did not know my people were living like that in Chicago and when I say my people I’m saying my Black people my people that I visited for a month do not live in Chicago. They live an hour away in the suburbs, but I could not leave without seeing Chicago and it was just horrifying.
I worked in Englewood dozens if not hundreds of times, throughout the south & west side, north side, and downtown, all throughout Chicago and suburbs installing commercial laundromat equipment in laundromats, nursing homes, car washes, animal shelters, apartment complexes you name it, wherever there's a washer or dryer needed good chance I've been there. The coolest job for me was the job up at Hallas Hall, the facility where the Chicago Bears practice. I met Brandon Marshall and came across Matt Garza in the parking lot with his foot in a cast when I went out to grab some tools. I got to talk to him for a couple of minutes and got his autograph, despite the owner of the company telling us not to approach players for an autograph 😂 I guess that part is irrelevant especially since Hallas Hall is in the suburbs. My point is the media paints a certain picture, there's always that scare tactic. Englewood probably isn't the safest place, especially at night. As a basic white guy with no gang affiliation, I never had any issues with anyone in a couple of decades working throughout it. Cool video man I'm going to subscribe to your channel.
I personally do t think so. But not sure. Pullman area defi atley. I think i lmow rmthe scene you mean. When he lived in the bsmnt. Or when they foumd the black guy and the girl together. Good moviw
