Region blocked for me. How weird.
This is only for US tourists. International visitors are not welcome - you might overstay your visa.
Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods
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Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods
#42This reminds me of another artist that did an isometric map of the city. I bought one and it hangs on my office wall. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1673296980/map-of-chicago-loop-... Always fun to have someone over who knows the city. We'll spend 20 minutes pointing to all the buildings we've worked in, places we've eaten, or where The Bear or The Fugitive were filmed.
I have this hanging in my living room, though most people don't seem to get the reference https://wondercitystudio.com/collections/new-product-collect...
Looks like this is the reference, for anyone else wondering.
https://viewing.nyc/new-yorker-cover-from-1976-accurately-po...
Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I lived in Chicago for about a decade, and around 2017 to 2023 I set a goal of biking to every one of the 76(?) neighborhoods. I made it to about 63. There are definitely neighborhoods rougher than others. But tbh every neighborhood has good food, and, you know, normal people living there. Like, in Garfield park I remember buying ribs from a guy that was just sorta cooking them outa the back of his truck. They were t…
I've lived in some of the roughest neighborhoods there and never felt particularly unsafe walking around at all. A couple of times people dumped bodies in my yard, but I also had that problem when I lived in a really nice area too :D A couple of other times I took to my basement while there were gang shootouts happening outside my house. There is lots of great food in Chicago. Downtown is nice to me. You can get arou…
How can someone talk about a trivial experience of exploring food while acknowledging that they had bodies thrown into their yards? In both countries in Europe I lived I have never in my life seen a corpse outside of a funeral and even then. I also never heard gun shots except for hunting and never in an urban setting.
I can’t imagine having my little children suffering seeing the corpse of a dead human being and I would curse and never set foot on a land where that is normalised.
Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods
#44Region blocked for me. How weird.
This is only for US tourists. International visitors are not welcome - you might overstay your visa.
Or just get randomly selected by an ICE goon to hit their target for their bonus and get put in some processing facility for a few weeks.
I guess this is for our own protection.
Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods
#45Not clear why this is hitting HN today, but these are popular enough in Chicago to be kind of a cliche. No matter how convincing the poster is, I think you'll be disappointed if you plan a trip to visit scenic Galewood.
It’s a total cliché rite of passage to buy one of these when you move to Chicago. And I am typing that as I look at the Edgewater poster hanging right there over my desk.
Or for Chicago natives leaving Chicago.
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#46Tourism oxymoron "This content is not available in your region"
They didn't want to bother with EU's General Data Protection Regulation. Its a local newspaper.
Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods
#47Not clear why this is hitting HN today, but these are popular enough in Chicago to be kind of a cliche. No matter how convincing the poster is, I think you'll be disappointed if you plan a trip to visit scenic Galewood.
Hey! I live in Galewood! OK, Mont Clare really. But you would not be wrong in either case.
People see/hear about Chicago (the city, not burbs) and think it is just deep dish, The Bean, and crime. But out here in the bungalow belt, it is working class schlubs just living quiet lives. Aka, the REAL Chicago. If you want a better picture, look up "Blues Brothers Mrs. Tarantino". Yes, I know that's Cicero, but close enough. If you drove that street today, nearly 50 years later, you'd think no time has passed at all.
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This was bait enough that I jumped into Google Maps to look at a few random Galewood streets via street view. Obviously very suburban, but looks like it'd make for a nice stroll until you tired of the cookie-cutter layout. Hugh Hefner's childhood home as a bonus.
I live across the street from it. It's fine! It's just one of the most boring neighborhoods in Chicago. Walking distance to Johnnie's Beef, though, which is the best beef spot in the city.
KEEP. JOHNNIE'S. SECRET.
Lines are long enough as it is. We don't need tourists messing it up.
Signed,
-Mont Clare resident
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#49r/USdefaultism
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I lived in Chicago for about a decade, and around 2017 to 2023 I set a goal of biking to every one of the 76(?) neighborhoods. I made it to about 63. There are definitely neighborhoods rougher than others. But tbh every neighborhood has good food, and, you know, normal people living there. Like, in Garfield park I remember buying ribs from a guy that was just sorta cooking them outa the back of his truck. They were t…
I've lived in some of the roughest neighborhoods there and never felt particularly unsafe walking around at all. A couple of times people dumped bodies in my yard, but I also had that problem when I lived in a really nice area too :D A couple of other times I took to my basement while there were gang shootouts happening outside my house. There is lots of great food in Chicago. Downtown is nice to me. You can get arou…
Is your assessment based on no physical harm befalling you specifically? Because what you describe is objectively an unsafe environment.