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The Chicago Tribune reported that Aaron Goldstein, 42, and members of his campaign team were approached by three men in their early 20s. One of the men had a handgun and demanded Goldstein and the campaign aides turn over the camera equipment and other personal belongings, including their cell phones, which they did.
Though Albany Park is not known as one of Chicago’s more dangerous neighborhoods, it has been the scene of a recent spate of armed robberies similar to Thursday’s incident with the Goldstein team. Two suspects carried out six separate street robberies in late November and early December, flashing handguns and demanding money from the victims, according to a crime alert released by the Chicago Police Department.
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
The people of Detroit greatly appreciate your city's willingness to take on the role of "worst post-apocalypic slum in America." Keep up the good work! (So people will stop making jokes about us for a while.)
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: GuidedKill
No descriptions of the three assailants?
Tall, short?
Fat, thin?
And to call them men? Shame shame on such an assumption....
originally posted by: jtrenthacker
What a sh*thole.
originally posted by: Gravelbone
a reply to: GuidedKill
Just the products of Gentrification as usual.
When they gentrified Lincoln Park, they moved to Bucktown. When they did it to Bucktown, they moved to Humboldt. When Humboldt fell, they moved to Cragin, Hermosa, Logan, etc. So on and so forth. Old Irving/Albany Park/Six Corners neighborhoods have long been changing demographics and show signs of strain as the old money moves on and the new residents from tougher hoods move in. Uptown/Rogers Park, Wrigleyville/Boystown went through the same.
This is a big city with big plans. Gentrify or die.
It won't stop til the poor are pushed to burbs and the whole city looks like Lincoln Park.
originally posted by: GuidedKill
originally posted by: Gravelbone
a reply to: GuidedKill
Just the products of Gentrification as usual.
When they gentrified Lincoln Park, they moved to Bucktown. When they did it to Bucktown, they moved to Humboldt. When Humboldt fell, they moved to Cragin, Hermosa, Logan, etc. So on and so forth. Old Irving/Albany Park/Six Corners neighborhoods have long been changing demographics and show signs of strain as the old money moves on and the new residents from tougher hoods move in. Uptown/Rogers Park, Wrigleyville/Boystown went through the same.
This is a big city with big plans. Gentrify or die.
It won't stop til the poor are pushed to burbs and the whole city looks like Lincoln Park.
While Gentrification is real I think a lot of what happens with neighborhoods in cities and towns across this Country is based on generations.
Here me out. The problem is the older generations who owned those homes and took pride and care of them are dying. When the elderly passes on they usually leave those paid off house to their children who are of different generations as well as living in different economies. While those house were given to them they don't take care of them as their parents did because they don't have the same pride of working for and earning that house. They don't work and are usually living in areas with low job numbers however because the house is free they have no desire or drive to move away. They live there year after year in squander as the house rots away around them until there is nothing left that is livable and they have to move away.
Only when the people who have money and who are willing to invest time and pride in the home come along to fix it does it become gentrified. However those people are not the cause for the neighborhood failing in the first place. The reason it went to crap in the first place is mentioned above.
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: GuidedKill
Great video, thanks for that!
Hmmm, do they have one about Cincinnati?
originally posted by: Gravelbone
a reply to: jtrenthacker
Ever been? Doubt it. As with any city this large, it's bound to have it's bad parts. Sometimes real bad.
But this is a great city. You obviously wouldn't know.
40 years I've lived here and I still haven't been shot yet, go figure. Or maybe all that happens in a specific part of the city most often and crime like this happens most everywhere. We are not the new Detroit lol.
But, cast your dispersions from obscurity and the security of whatever "Mayberry" you live in. Its safer that way.