Posted on 04/23/2008 6:27:34 PM PDT by prolifefirst
Agree...but they’re served by really grumpy old men.
The Chi-town pigs are too busy arresting landlords in tenant disputes and falsely accusing people of “looking” at children to handle real crime.
My dad grew up in Chicago. Today it would be suicide to walk through his old neighborhood.
Wow!
Houston has a problem, yes. Exacerbated by the influx of Katrina refugees. However, considering that guns are banned in Chicago and are not in Texas cities, this sort of headline is quite shocking.
At any rate, I don’t live in Houston or Dallas. My suburb has a very low murder rate.
The LIBS that cried that we should pull outta Iraq???
Maybe we should pull out of Chicago as a lost cause!
:^D
We lived between Cicero & Laramie, right off of Washington from 1950-53. It was a nice neighborhood then. Then we moved right off Pulaski between Armitage and Fullerton. Lived there from 54-64. The last time I saw that neighborhood was in 89 and it was a pit. My old high school looked like a war zone with all the gang tags and graffiti. The city finally razed it and built a new school on the same spot. The last place I lived before I headed for Texas was right off of North Ave. between Austin & Narragansett. Don’t know what it’s like now but I think I’d like to remember it the way it was.
When I think of the places I could go to as a child, on my own, and not have to be scared and then think of what it’s like today, I feel sick.
Ack, it is a hoax.
Repeated searches give different results. Same names get repeated (names not likely to repeat that often).
A pity, as the concept is sound: all that information IS public, and there are comparable real sites for subsets of that data.
I guess I have to agree with your comparitive graphs — Chicago, while certainly a big city with the related urban crime climate, is not as difficult to endure as a lot of other major cities.
I spend about half my time in Chicago and find the people and surroundings something I can deal with most of the time having come from the suburban area of a much smaller city.
When in Chicago, I stay in the loop area and work in the near west side. If I was in the outer suburbs my opinion might be even higher. Good town. They will probably never get a handle on their local or state government, but that isn’t a problem that almost all big cities don’t share.
Alright, that explains things nicely. In any case, holding the gun itself sideways is a pretty dumb idea, and I can not imagine what made them think it was ‘cool’ or in any way beneficial to them in the first place...
LOL! That’s true — G&G waiters can be kind of gruff. Still, the steaks are worth it!
“Gene & Georgetti’s is about as far west as we’ll venture...
My favorite steak joint in Chicago.”
The first time I went there, one of my coworkers asked the waiter what he recommended. The waiter kind of shook his head and said, “If you like steak, it will be excellent, if you like pork chops, they will be excellent, if you like veal, it will be excellent...” He was absolutely right.
Another time, we took a customer who ordered spagetti, saying he had had a steak the night before. Afterwards, my boss came over to me, laughed, and said, “We took him to Gene & Georgetti’s, and he ordered SPAGETTI?!?
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