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Anonymous wrote:UChicago alum mayor Lori Lightfoot is running Chicago into the ground.

Exactly. I’d never want to live (or even visit!) there. Not any more.

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.

Anonymous wrote:UChicago alum mayor Lori Lightfoot is running Chicago into the ground.

Exactly. I’d never want to live (or even visit!) there. Not any more.

Please note that violent crime is largely limited to specific sections of Chicago, one of which is the very area UChicago is situated in (Hyde Park is a beautiful neighborhood for the most part but it’s immediately surrounded by many unsafe areas). The northern half of the city is largely indistinguishable from any other major city when it comes to crime rates. Chicago is not the blight of a city mainstream media sometimes make it out to be; in fact, quite the opposite. It’s extremely lovely and might be my favorite city in America. I just hope the city gets a handle on the violent and gun crime in the south and west sides.

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Anonymous wrote:My boyfriend lived there (I lived in a regular walk-up closer to the university with no security). We made fun of the Regents folks who spent way more in rent to live in a “safer” building so far from campus.

Back then it seemed only grad students lived there - given this guy was a graduate student, it may still be the same today. That’s too bad it was an international student. We need more calls for gun reform and justice system reform and unlikely to come from his distraught parents. How did someone with so many domestic abuse charges walk around with a gun??

Do you really think gun reform would have kept this criminal from having a gun? Come on!

yes.

lol! NP but it's amazing how many people are living in la la land. You'll never get guns off the streets... case in point DC

You can't have effective gun control without federal laws. DC can have all the laws it wants to. It's right next to Virginia and Maryland and open borders

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boyfriend lived there (I lived in a regular walk-up closer to the university with no security). We made fun of the Regents folks who spent way more in rent to live in a “safer” building so far from campus.

Back then it seemed only grad students lived there - given this guy was a graduate student, it may still be the same today. That’s too bad it was an international student. We need more calls for gun reform and justice system reform and unlikely to come from his distraught parents. How did someone with so many domestic abuse charges walk around with a gun??

Do you really think gun reform would have kept this criminal from having a gun? Come on!

yes.

lol! NP but it's amazing how many people are living in la la land. You'll never get guns off the streets... case in point DC

UChicago alum mayor Lori Lightfoot is running Chicago into the ground.

Anonymous wrote:My boyfriend lived there (I lived in a regular walk-up closer to the university with no security). We made fun of the Regents folks who spent way more in rent to live in a “safer” building so far from campus.

Back then it seemed only grad students lived there - given this guy was a graduate student, it may still be the same today. That’s too bad it was an international student. We need more calls for gun reform and justice system reform and unlikely to come from his distraught parents. How did someone with so many domestic abuse charges walk around with a gun??

Chicago and more broadly Crook County is hopeless because they currently have an incompetent mayor (a double UC alum!) and incompetent county prosecutor who catches & releases every criminal. The prosecutor was just re-elected in November! Plus sky-high taxes and brutal weather.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boyfriend lived there (I lived in a regular walk-up closer to the university with no security). We made fun of the Regents folks who spent way more in rent to live in a “safer” building so far from campus.

Back then it seemed only grad students lived there - given this guy was a graduate student, it may still be the same today. That’s too bad it was an international student. We need more calls for gun reform and justice system reform and unlikely to come from his distraught parents. How did someone with so many domestic abuse charges walk around with a gun??

Do you really think gun reform would have kept this criminal from having a gun? Come on!

yes.

Anonymous wrote:My boyfriend lived there (I lived in a regular walk-up closer to the university with no security). We made fun of the Regents folks who spent way more in rent to live in a “safer” building so far from campus.

Back then it seemed only grad students lived there - given this guy was a graduate student, it may still be the same today. That’s too bad it was an international student. We need more calls for gun reform and justice system reform and unlikely to come from his distraught parents. How did someone with so many domestic abuse charges walk around with a gun??

Do you really think gun reform would have kept this criminal from having a gun? Come on!

My boyfriend lived there (I lived in a regular walk-up closer to the university with no security). We made fun of the Regents folks who spent way more in rent to live in a “safer” building so far from campus.

Back then it seemed only grad students lived there - given this guy was a graduate student, it may still be the same today. That’s too bad it was an international student. We need more calls for gun reform and justice system reform and unlikely to come from his distraught parents. How did someone with so many domestic abuse charges walk around with a gun??

Anonymous wrote:I lived in Regents Park — it is essentially quasi-university housing with maybe 2/3 residents affiliated with the school — very scary and surprising because it was considered one of the nicer places.

I always read about the high crime rate of regents area

I lived in Regents Park — it is essentially quasi-university housing with maybe 2/3 residents affiliated with the school — very scary and surprising because it was considered one of the nicer places.

Reading more. 7 shot, 5 dead (so far). Suspect is 32-y.o. with lengthy history of domestic violence. Suspect died in a shootout with police near Evanston.

“...suspect was charged in five separate domestic battery cases over the past decade. All of those charges were dismissed.”

Thank you, OP. My DC is going to UChicago next year and we don't know the lay of the land so this gives me a little bit of picture

Apparently the apartment complex is very popular with students with a shuttle going back and forth to campus; student was killed in its parking garage. It was the first in a killing spree throughout the city — with the gunman later killed by police.

https://abc7chicago.com/police-shooting-evanston-hyde-park-today/9520974/

https://chicagomaroon.com/article/2021/1/10/student-shot-killed-regents-park-parking-garage-2/