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Well, at least two people got a quick education .... they probably learned not to travel to Chicago’s South side without an armed escort or armed like a swat team member! In fact, if they were reasonably intelligent, they would have learned to stay away from Chicago and Norther Illinois if they valued their lives.

Well, at least two people got a quick education .... they probably learned not to travel to Chicago’s South side without an armed escort or armed like a swat team member!

They go to college there. They LIVE on the south side! The Hyde Park area, while not exactly Greenwich, CT, also isn't exactly Bedford-Stuyvesant or Calumet City. The big problem was that they were on a less traveled side street after night. They should stick to the main college/Hyde Park thoroughfares like 55th, 57th, 60th, Woodlawn, Ellis or take the free bus service. During the day that area should be fine.

One year I lived on Maryland avenue and 58th in a sublet, and my housemates and I were among the few melanin deprived folks there. I was also poor, so nothing was worth stealing except maybe my Coleco Adam computer. The teen locals did come up trick or treating on Halloween (only one wanted something, a bit of a joke). I required him to be in costume for the "treat". He put on one glove and said he was Michael Jackson. Okay, close enough. Then I gave him a baloney sandwich. In general we got along fine, though having almost nothing in common.