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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UChicago alum mayor Lori Lightfoot is running Chicago into the ground.[/quote]
Exactly. I’d never want to live (or even visit!) there. Not any more.[/quote]

Downtown and North Side of the city are perfectly, perfectly safe and quite frankly stunning, especially if you’re an architecture nut like me. Don’t let the South Side scare you off.[/quote]

The south and west sides of Chicago are huge spaces and completely and totally safe for most people in most of them.  The crime is largely gang and poverty linked, and yes, incredibly problematic. But there are plenty of safe areas in the south side (including, despite what others have said, some of the areas surrounding Hyde Park, like Bronzeville to the north).

IMO it's problematic that whenever someone gets killed in a "should be ok!" part of Chicago people all of a sudden care about the city and consider themselves experts.

This was crime unlike typical Chicago crime; also, the guy ended up getting shot by cops in Evanston after shooting people at an IHOP there, but I don't see people complaining about Evanston crime.

My sympathies to the grad student, the other people killed, and their families. [/quote]

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