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Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods

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Post by tptacek » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:55 AM UTC

qingcharles wrote: post #60

kasey_junk wrote: post #59

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Bullshit. You could drop every Chicago murder victims body for a year in east Chatham and the chances of it landing in any particular yard would be small. And clearly most murder bodies don’t end up in any yard. For it to happen multiple times is a ludicrous claim. I lived in Woodlawn for 15 years and never heard a gunshot, more or less went to my basement. I’m not sure what your goal is. Chicago has a gun violence p…

I assume Woodlawn was probably peppered with Shotspotters just like Chatham was, so it's odd that they would install the equipment if there were no shootings at all.

Dude there's a shotspotter a couple blocks from my house and our police discharged a sidearm in the line of duty for the first time in over 10 years last year. Nobody was dumping bodies on your lawn.

You get that we live here right? How is this argument supposed to work out for you?

Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods

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Post by wpm » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:18 AM UTC

vogtb wrote: post #34

SoftTalker wrote: post #32

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Parts of Chicago are nice. Vast swathes of it are best avoided.

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…

Ghareeb Narwaz and the cheap platters of chili chicken biryani got me through my undergrad

Re: Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods

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Post by qingcharles » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 4:43 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #61

qingcharles wrote: post #60

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I assume Woodlawn was probably peppered with Shotspotters just like Chatham was, so it's odd that they would install the equipment if there were no shootings at all.

Dude there's a shotspotter a couple blocks from my house and our police discharged a sidearm in the line of duty for the first time in over 10 years last year. Nobody was dumping bodies on your lawn. You get that we live here right? How is this argument supposed to work out for you?

If you want to do some FOIAs on the CPD to prove the veracity of my statements I might be able to find the dates since I texted my landlord both times. The police wanted the camera footage from my building, but the camera wasn't working, so it didn't help them. There was also a Shotspotter on my block, so if you FOIA all the recordings from that you'll be able to see how many times there were shots detected from it.