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Areas to Avoid Chicago Alamy Travel to nearly any corner of the globe – a slum in Cairo, a trendy Paris cafe, a market in Delhi – and tell a local you're from Chicago.
The Jane Byrne Interchange (until 2014, Circle Interchange) is a major freeway interchange near downtown Chicago, Illinois, known locally as "The Lady in the Middle".It is the junction between the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways (I-90/I-94 and I-290), and Ida B. Wells Drive. [1]
From the late-2000s to early 2010s, Parkway was the center of gang shootings mostly amongst teenagers and young adults. Tenants of Parkway and community leaders contested the crime wave that came after CHA demolished the drug-infested Robert Taylor Homes, nicknamed the "Calumet Buildings" which were once located at 6217 S. Calumet Ave.
Sheffield Avenue is a north–south street in Chicago, Illinois. It is best known to sports fans as being the street just beyond the right-field bleachers of Wrigley Field . Sheffield Avenue begins at the intersection with West Weed Street, immediately adjacent to Weed's intersection with North Kingsbury Street.
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Letters to the editor on a dangerous intersection, plans for an arts center, exposing the abuse of children and weed removal controversies. | Opinion This dangerous Tri-Cities intersection nearly ...
Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop. [2] The vast majority of the street is double-decked ; the upper level is intended for regular street-level traffic, and the lower level for service vehicles ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.