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Originally Posted by Chisouthside
I think in the 90's and early 2000's Lincoln Park was popular because for a lot of scared suburbanites it represented a "safe" place to hang out in Chicago. At the time wicker park, logan square were still grimy, Pilsen was still Pilsen, the west loop industrial, and even lakeview was still more weird than hip.
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Right now Chicago doesn't even really have an "edgy" area any more.
You can say it's Pilsen and Logan Square, etc but the difference between today and 1985 or even 1995 is the difference between night and day.
Back then, city neighborhoods were completely cutting edge territory for generations of kids who knew nothing but the suburbs and who barely ventured into the city.
Today, in 2019, we've probably spent 2-3 decades gentrifying and sanitizing our cities, so even neighborhoods on the gentrification edge don't feel as "out there" as urban hoods in the 1980's probably did.