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Originally Posted by Crawford
Are we sure about this "the West Side isn't nearly as decayed as the South Side" narrative?
Both are large areas with huge variability, and there are definitely bombed out parts of the West Side. In my (very anecdotal) experience, West Side is tougher and at least as bombed out.
This is the West Side I'm most familiar with. I don't know if there's a worse area in Chicago:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8578...7i16384!8i8192 |
I don't know, I don't have any experience on the ground here, but I can't find any places on the West Side that have the same level of ground exposure as that Englewood shot. These are two of the worst I can see.
Lawndale:
East Garfield:
One thing I see is the proximity to the Freeway might have helped to keep some employment uses in the area as you can see industrial properties, hospitals, and some other institutional uses in close proximity to bombed out residential areas. Englewood looks basically like one giant residential neighbourhood where if people aren't living there and working elsewhere, nothing is going on.