Tuesday, August 7, 2007

* Joe Moore Won't Talk - Part 3

Exclusive 'Broken Heart' Video

What's with this guy. I was polite today. And the schmuck still won't talk. No, I didn't ask about the pink postcards. I asked why he doesn't work on ward issues. Instead he's always getting some petition signed.

Today he is working for Fagus and Obama. Seems the 49th ward democratic party has already decided Obama is the man for us 49th warders to back. No vote, no nothing. Screw Hillary and Edward's. Or anyone else. Just send the troops out and collect signatures for Obama. It's that simple - it's not democratic at all. Then why can't Joe answer a few simple questions? There's no transparency in the 49th ward. That's why Joe doesn't want to talk.

34 comments:

fedup dem said...

Has anyone declared their candidacy against Fagus yet?

Craig Gernhardt said...

Did you know.....
When you signed the petition, Joe Moore put your information in his personal Blackberry?"


That's what he was doing.

Dr O said...

What exactly does the committeeperson do?
I understand the alderman represents (in theory) the people of the ward...so is the committeeperson like a whip for the party or something?

Ryne said...

Whats interesting in watching joey reaction to you Craig, is that how good he ignores you (just like the problems in the ward)

Also it's interesting that joey wants to talk to Craig "off" camera! (Just like he takes care of issues in the ward, the behind closed door meetings)

joey you come across like a very foolish man on thses videos!

Who the hell vetoed for this goof!! I hope you watch Craig viedo over & over and be proud of joey!

Cameron said...

I recently signed a lease on an apartment between Morse and Lunt on Greenview. I saw the place liked it, thought the neighborhood was nice enough. I was told that it was a good neighborhood. I have now read all of your blog postings and comments and feel like I am entering a war zone. Am I making a mistake by moving where I am?

AdamZollinger said...

Craig,

Here is a copy of an email that I sent the ward office. I figure if I don't hear back from anyone there, at least you all will read it. I will admit that I cooled down after a good talk with another RPer about trying to think of solutions to these problems as a community, instead of just complaining, but I wanted to let everyone read this anyway. I believe that we can all come together and make things better, but we still need to be able to see the obvious. We don't see any changes. In fact, in the 2 years I have lived here, it is slowly but surely getting worse. We are not going to be able to change it all, but of course that does not mean that we shouldn't try to take back our 'hood. On that note however, we don't elect folk so that they can sit in their nice houses (don't know if he has one) petitioning the president. Here it is:

Good Morning,

I am just writing a simple letter because I really want to move out of
Rogers Park due to the fact that it is so blatantly neglected. I
really doubt that anything will come of this, but I thought that I
would try.

I have lived in RP for over 2 years now, and for the most part it has
been great, but there are a few things that suck. First of all, do you
not notice the open air drug market on Morse Ave? It is so obvious, if
not famous in our ward, and yet, there the "thugs" are, day after day,
with their white t-shirts that are "too big" hanging out a block or so
west of the "L" and nothing is seemingly done about it. That doesn't
even account for the "lookouts" that ride around on bicycles with
their white t-shirts that are "too big" to make sure that no cops are
around for the deals to go down.

I am all for diversity, but get this trash out of our ward! If they do
not want anything better for themselves and they want to perpetuate a
stereotype that all black males are assholes, then let them do it
somewhere else. We all have real jobs that we go to everyday, and we
do not want to be harassed or "gooned" on our way home from work.
Something needs to be done NOW.

Hopefully, Joe Moore has plans in the works to get rid of this problem
(plans that we can see results from now!), and if he doesn't then why
did he run for re-election? Also, if things need to be done in our
ward, why is he standing outside the White House trying to get George
Bush to meet with him about the War in Iraq? There is shit going on
right here that needs city councils attention. If he wanted to be more
than the Alderman of the 49th ward in Chicago, then he should be
focusing on that instead of leaving us in a slum. Especially when we
paid to be here! Don Gordon wanted the job, why didn't you just let
him do it? We were told that this was an up and coming neighborhood
when we bought, but that is bull. There have been very few new
businesses opened that are even worth visiting, the trees that have
been planted are being attacked regularly, gang bangers are everywhere
tagging, throwing a brick through my bedroom window, breaking into
cars, and attacking people who just want to be able to walk through
their neighborhood in peace.

This is bull shit, and the thing that sucks now, is that fact that
they built all of these new condo's that no one wants to move into,
because the neighborhood sucks, so I cannot sell mine. I am tired of
this. I want to move to the suburbs. I don't mind diversity, but I
would rather have a peaceful neighborhood.

-anonymousRPer

The North Coast said...

To anonymousrper,

JoMo has had "plans in the works" to rid this ward of gangs and crime for the past 16 years.

So far, all improvement in the ward has been from rehabbing and converting bad buildings to condo. That was done by private developers, of course.

The gangs and the crime are still here, and I don't expect things to improve with our incumbent AlderMoron. He doesn't care about this ward, for it is only a steppingstone for him, and we are nobodies next to the trust fund babies and entertainment celebrities he's hobnobbing with and who contribute copiously to his campaign fund.

We're stuck with him or one of his creatures no matter what, because he played the race card very skillfully in the last election, to our loss. If he leaves, one of his creatures (Fagus?)will probably be appointed to take his place. If he doesn't leave, we're stuck with him.

Test said...

Cameron,

Don't let this blog be the be all and end off of your opinion of this neighborhood. Craig is only happy if there is blood, guts, and carnage to report about or he'd have nothing to blog about. Further, when there is something positive going on in the neighborhood, he will bash it and make fun of it for no more reason that spite and crochityness.

No, this is not the safest or best neighborhood in the world. If it were, the rents would be a hell of a lot more for the very nice apartments you can find in Rogers Park. This is Chicago- a very pocketed street with good blocks and bad blocks. So long as you are not an idiot or a coward, stay alert and basically just not be a fool, you will be fine.

Morse is fine to walk down during the day and I would dare say at night if you are going to the "El" so long as you don't act like you are afraid of the low lifes on the street. Lunt is totally fine to walk down to go to the "El" and if you have a bus pass, you can get to the Morse "El" station on that side and avoid Morse altogether if you wish.

Where as there isn't a concentrated area of shopping, there is some eclectic and good shopping to be had around this neighborhood if you know where to look. Yelp.com is an excellent source of where to drink, eat, shop in the neighborhood.

I moved here about a month ago but have known of this neighborhood for the past 20 years. It is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better than it used to be. There are problems but this is a neighborhood in transition. What you need to worry about is when there is a Starbucks over here- then you know your rent is about to go up at least $500 a month. Neighborhood transitions take time. This place is no different than Wicker Park or Humbolt Park used to be 10-15 years ago. Its changing- people just expect it to happen overnight.

Just be smart and you will be fine.

Welcome to the neighborhood. =)

Hillari said...

Chicago politics as usual. My late dad was known as the number one precinct captain in Cook County; he and his cronies did the same thing, promoted the choosen ward candidate and badgered the voters to ignore the other candidates. Moore is just following the machine way of doing business, which of course, sucks.

Unknown said...

anonymousRPer--

When you write a letter and want to be taken seriously, stating that the "neighborhood sucks" probably isn't the best way of going about it. Offer some solutions (they won't listen, but if you're going to take the time to write a letter, might as well do it right)

CNB said...

He couldn't even look you in the eye. What a lox.

Ryne said...

Here is a good one...I didn't know joey knew where city hall was! Since he has been in Wasington pretending to be important and playing up to the camera! (All media cameras not Craigs)

Dear Neighbor

Just ten miles south of Rogers Park lies City Hall, where I serve along with 49 other aldermen as a veteran member of Chicago's City Council. Although the City Council can sometimes seem more like a distant planet, important work is done there which directly affects the people of our ward. Starting with the most recent meeting, on July 19, I plan to share brief, timely reports on the City Council meetings and what they may mean to you.

If you attend a City Council meeting (and they are open to the public), you'll find that there is no written agenda(!) but they always follow the same formula. First there are the honorary resolutions in praise of heroic service by police officers and firefighters, followed by individual resolutions for other Chicago citizens. What follows is a reading of the ordinances, resolutions and other legislation introduced by Mayor Daley and committee reports, which consists of ordinances coming out of the various City Council committees for debate and vote.

The most important ordinance discussed and passed on July 19 established a new Office of Professional Standards (OPS) with authority over the Police Department. It was written in response to years of ineffective oversight of rogue police officers who have sadly coerced and abused citizens under the cover of their office. I was deeply involved in advocating for a more independent Office of Professional Standards and moved to have consideration of an earlier version of the ordinance deferred because I didn't think it was sufficiently comprehensive.

To his credit, Mayor Daley worked with us in the City Council to fashion a compromise ordinance that my colleagues and I felt we could support. Under the modified ordinance, the OPS will have the authority to investigate allegations of improper police coercion in addition to actual physical abuse. The modified ordinance also contains more stringent reporting requirements so that the public can more closely monitor the progress of police misconduct allegations.

Why is this ordinance important for the 49th Ward?

First, we depend heavily on the many good and honest policemen and women who serve us every day. Unfortunately, the misdeeds of a small number of officers taint the reputation of all and make the entire force less trusted and less effective. By enacting a means to more effectively discipline the few bad members, the entire force - and our safety - will benefit.

Second, there's the money. Rarely does a City Council meeting take place without millions and millions of dollars going to settle cases of alleged police misconduct. Think of what this money could do for housing and healthcare, our schools, our parks, and beaches? It's a waste of resources that must stop! The ordinance isn't perfect, but it's a solid step forward.

Finally, every meeting ends with the introduction of new ordinances by the members of the City Council. Along with Aldermen Freddrenna Lyle, Toni Preckwinkle, and Ricardo Munoz, I was proud to co-sponsor an ordinance that would void a new contract that the City made with a private airport security company. The reason is simple: their terms are in violation of Chicago's Living Wage Ordinance. Vigilance on behalf of Chicago's workers is constantly necessary and I continue to pledge to fight for fair wages for all citizens throughout our city.

I hope that this initial report has given you a glimpse of my "other life" at City Hall. A good Alderman works to provide needed local services and improvements, while legislating in the best interests of our ward and our city. My goal is to serve you to the best of my ability in both spheres.

As is tradition, the City Council does not meet in August. The next meeting of the City Council is scheduled for Wednesday, September 5th. Stay tuned for my report following the next meeting!

Sincerely,

Joe Moore

craichead said...

Craig,

Why don't you take him up on his offer to talk with you off the camera? I thought that was actually a nice offer.

He's elected to serve the people of the ward, not to talk into your camera. Your demeanor and history toward him seems to be aggressive at best. I can't blame the man for not wanting to be compliant.

Sit down with him and ask why in so many peoples' eyes he doesn't serve the people he's elected to serve. Show him your drug market videos and pictures. He'll give you answers. Maybe not an answer you want to hear, but then write about it and we'll have somewhere to go with this.

AdamZollinger said...

Jerk Store,

I agree, there were alot of things that I should not have said in such a childish manner. I was just mad. However, if I thought that I was even going to get a response, be rest assured, that it would have been done correctly. :)

The North Coast said...

Just think, if ALL the neighborhoods on the North Side were to reduce their crime rates, the rents would even out, and Lakeview wouldn't command such a premium.

What a wonderful thing our politicians nation-wide have done for this country since 1970, which is make living in a reasonably safe neighborhood another class privelege.

Prior to that year, if your neighborhood was lower-middle (like RP) or better, you were assured a reasonable degree of safety on the streets, and we had a national goal of making ALL neighborhoods safer.

That's the goal- to reduce crime in this city, and this country, to levels comparable with well-run Western European countries. These places have their own well-publicized problems, but they compare very favorably to the U.S. on all indices of violent crime.

You can tell how old I am by the fact that I remember when most people in most cities left their doors unlocked- imagine doing that in St.Louis, my old city!!-and you could leave your bike on the front lawn.

Something changed much for the worse between 1963 and 1970, and we need to fix it.

And, of course, we need to start locally. The level of violent crime in this area in unacceptable anywhere, and we might as well start with our own 'hood.

prattpangs said...

Cameron...good luck! keep your eyes open...do extra cardio work to improve speed and endurance.....it will come in handy when you need to run away from the thugs. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating....just be aware of 'groups' of people.....people do things in 'groups' they normally would'nt if alone

Unknown said...

Geez-

I have to disagree with Ryne.

You come off as a crazy in this video, Craig. A man was out doing something in his personal time, and you angrily ambushed him with a camera.

I wonder how you'd react if you were out about some personal business and someone came up to you and did this? Would you be willing to stop what you were doing and begin answering questions from someone barely containing their hostility?

You are fortunate not to be ignorant enough to have ever threatened Moore on your blog (that I've ever read) or he could probably file a restraining order with this sort of stuff...

Why didn't you take him up on his offer to sit down and talk off camera?

Craig Gernhardt said...

If you want to talk to him off camera, go ahead. I don't.

Unknown said...

speaking of "personal time"...

are alderman required to even work any hours at all? or if he shows up once a month at city hall is that all he has to do to earn his 100k?

it is unreasonable to expect that he's on the clock 8 hours a day?

so, was he really on "personal" time? or is he on our time?

that's a job i want!

Ryne said...

Acid ; I respect you disagree with my view of the video. Just keep in mind joey is our elected aldermen, therefore when he is out getting signatures , he as aldermen can be asked about what is going on in the ward. Joe has stated crime is down, by the stories on this blog the last several days it doesn't appear to be down.

So if you think about it asking a elected oficial (who is payed from our tax dollars) some hard hitting questions why not? What does joey have to say off camera that he can not say on camera?

What id joey afraid of???

Fuzzy Logic said...

"Ambush Interview"?

I don't think he knows what that means.

Obviously, he thinks it means an unexpected on camera interview, but a sit down would be the same minus the video documentation.

You see, Joe, unless you ask for the questions in advance they will be unexpected, so what's the problem?

SouthEvanstonian said...

It seems that Moore wants to attach himself to a rising star. Smart move. I just wish he'd show the same level of initiative for local issues... but maybe that's too small potatoes for him now?

Jocelyn said...

Acid- Joe is a politician and he was doing political work in a public place when approached by Craig. I see no problem with it. Joe could answer the questions but I'm sure he has been advised not to by his PR people.

RogersParkBooster said...

Hey Cameron -

I'll start by pointing out that anyone who ever reads my posts knows how little I respect Joe Moore as well as a big percentage of his hangers on. It is not so much what he does, its just the lies he tells while he’s doing it that drives me crazy.

Having said the above, the truth is that in general, Rogers Park is not particularly any worse than anywhere else in the City that has the same basic economic and cultural demographic profile as our neighborhood. And I’m sorry, but we are not the only “diverse” neighborhood in Chicago – that line is just simple propaganda, often used by our alderman and his friends to excuse some of the neighborhood’s worst features.

Joe Moore and his old lefty friends would tell us that this horrid gang-bang crime bullshit that Jo & Co. expect us to turn a blind eye to is the price we need to pay to live in “Diversity Heaven on the lake”. If you say a goon is a goon, a thug is a thug, regardless of your race or the goony thug’s race, you are somehow a racist bigot and a morally corrupt person. And of course, Joe and Michael James and Katie Hogan and their little totalitarian tribe are the arbiters and judges of who is moral and who is not in Rogers Park. Disagree with them and see how you are treated. See what they will whisper behind your back.

Rogers Park has superior core amenities (transportation, the lake etc) than many if not most Chicago neighborhoods, especially where lower-middle class and poor and/or immigrants (mostly undocumented – i.e. Illegal) people make up a majority of the neighborhood. And I realize the demographic details are always changing, but this has been the story of Rogers Park at least since WW II. And this change of course does not occur in the sophomoric Kum-bay-ah ‘ignore the facts, ignore the truth” way Katie Hogan and her pothead crowd would insist upon. There are not many places in the city where lower middle class people can still live right next to the lake, but there are not many upper-middle class neighborhoods in the City that would tolerate Morse Avenue or Howard Street either. They would have had the brains to kick Joe Moore out on his soft politician butt, too.

What is so damnably ugly and sad, is what Rogers Park is, what it is not, and what it could be. And the failure of our potential is to a great extent the result of 16 years of Joe Moore, and the tone and timber he sets in our community. And the low aspiration, low performance people and organizations that constitute his coalition of losers and parasites act as the frosting on our mediocre cake. I am not talking about the poor among us – I am talking about the greedy self-serving web of NFP’s that prey off the poor and skim off the top while purporting to help them. And of course, supporting Joe Moore too.

Some of the finest most decent people I have ever known I have met in Rogers Park. I’ve been here a long time. Some of the most principled and hard working people I have ever known are my neighbors, right here in RP.

I have also watched ignorance and poverty play itself out with treadmill repetition. Little has improved in 20 years for those caught in the web of the nanny state, the beloved hunting grounds of predatory politicians like Joe Moore. I realize Joe and his kind hold themselves out as the friends and protector of little guys and underdogs, but the sad truth is that they are little more than spiritual vampires living off the misery of those they profess to help.

Here in Rogers Park, there exist some of the most cynical hypocritical and self serving people I have ever watched in action as well. And sadly, many of these destructive backward looking people are the most expert and professional at the fine art of manipulation, deception and fear-mongering. They float to the top of the political sewer, and they run our ward.

We have diversity – but gang-bangers are not what make us diverse.

We have affordable housing – but drug dealers and drug dealing should not be tolerated in subsidized/voucher housing.

We have affordable housing – but no one should have to live in a slum just because it is cheap – and no one should live in a slum so horridly managed that 5 of your children and one of their friends are burned to death because a good friend and supporter of our alderman gets a free pass on human decency or following the housing laws. All for a profit, for political patronage, and little more.

We have open mindedness – but that does not mean we should be happy that our children witness open prostitution on our streets, or the spectacle of drunk or drug-addled people urinating in public, in broad daylight, in front of our homes.

We have artists, but that does not mean we should feel proud of outsiders being paid to produce public art when our own friends and neighbors could do a better and more beautiful and more honestly representative job.

You can meet wonderful life-long friends in Rogers Park. You can raise your kids here at least until they are ready to go to school. You can go 25 years without being mugged or having your flat broken into. But then again you may not be so lucky. But one thing is for sure: If you are an empathetic, open-minded, critically thinking person, not a day will go by that you are not struck with how much better Rogers Park could be.

RPBooster (retired)

Natas said...

Why would Joe Moore Talk to you when you twist around any of our elected officials (and now you may have not voted for Joe, but he Won, so deal with it) words?

Get Real.

Test said...

That's because you don't really want to talk Craig- you want to run around with a camera and be obnoxious and negative as possible.

Remember folks- if Craig had nothing to listen to on his scanner or people to busy-body then Craig would have no life.

I seriously think you should consider moving to New Orleans. You would have so much fodder for your camera, so much to listen to on the scanners, you'd never have a slow blog day.

Now if you want to talk about being scared walking down the street, there's a town for you. My co-workers insisted I was escorted at all times down there and depending on what I was doing for the day down there, I sometimes carried a gun myself.

Yes... travel a little bit, it really gives you a whole new perspective!

Fargo Woman said...

north coast said, "Something changed much for the worse between 1963 and 1970 and we need to fix it."

I'll go out on a limb here and suggest it was the proliferation of drugs.

If you have any new suggestions on how we can eliminate crime due to drugs (drug sales, procurement of drugs, criminal procurement of funds with which to purchase drugs); the health crisis - both physical and emotional - directly attributable to drugs; the rending of the social fabric of this nation, our communities and families directly attributable to drugs, then please I beg you, voice them - by all means - voice them here. For I too would like to sleep in a home with unlocked doors, an experience I’ve never enjoyed though I was raised in a small village in West-By-God-Virginia (but I digress . . . per chance my mother was simply paranoid before her time).

Yet, were you to provide the Nobel Prize worthy solution to our social, communal and individual crisis, still the dilemma would not be completely resolved. For, beloved neighbor, we still require a solution to the greed that has so possessed this nation like a junkie in the malevolent grip of his accursed addiction.

This greed for power, as much as for the filthy lucre that sucks at power’s swollen teat or the fame that sucks at its other, permeates this country and all who reside in it. This greed motivates us to cheat others before they can cheat us; to get what is ours and let them that can take the rest; to promise anything to attain a position or promotion and then deliver nothing, and, finally, to allay our guilt with self-assurances of, “After all everyone does it.” And why not? Look at the fine examples set forth by our leaders.

Our Justice system: confessions acquired under duress; search and seizure laws loosened or eliminated altogether, rights and freedoms compromised for the political and financial advancements of a select few, etc., etc. et-F***ing-cetera.

Look all the way to the White House, good soul, to the halls of the nation's sovereign capital wherein sits the rabid results of a campaign stolen by a brother for his brother - hanging chads my a**!

Or turn your head away from this monstrosity and overwhelm you delicate, raised-in-an-unlocked-home-senses with the carnivorous ferocity of a congress enacting laws benefiting special interest corporations billions of dollars annually while inundating the populace with taxes and empty promises. You need to look close, look fast before those same congressional leaders retire from office to accept positions with those same corporations, or their special interest lobbyists, for salaries NBA team owners can only wish they were making, etc. etc., well . . . you get the idea.

And all the while, men and women, sons and daughters, loved ones all, cry and scream and die in a desert land on the other side of the world in a failed attempt to save people from something they never asked to be saved from. Even France waited until our revolutionary forefathers said, “Lafayette, help us.”

So, perhaps the rose-colored glasses that came with that subscription to Tiger Beat, Good House Keeping or Field and Stream should return to the time capsule they came from. Welcome to the New Millennium, my naive friend.

The beat generation is now collecting Social Security.

A population explosion has wrought havoc on this planet’s limited recourses – a whole other dilemma we have yet to address in this particular diatribe.

In the meantime, Flower Power has fallen to the Power of the Purse: greed, greed and more greed. Unfettered consumerism; capitalism donning the imperialistic mantle of world domination through our unique brand of democracy thrust down the collective throats of people and nations whether they want it or not – for their own f***ing good.

And last but certainly not least: the insane notion of entitlement. We are entitled to lives of leisure on the bowed backs of third world workers. We are entitled to our gas guzzling one passenger 80% of the time SUVs for the sake of that 20% convenience. We are entitled to taking advantage of every legal loophole available to us to toss tenants into the streets so we can land-bank our properties until the housing boom resurges so we can rehab them into overpriced, featureless condominiums.

Now, north coast, you said something about not really knowing what changed for the worse between 1963 and 1970? I wonder, do you think you might have a handle on that now? Do you think you – or Clinton, or Obama, or Gordon or Moore – have an answer? Any answer?

Please?

- PEACE -

Craig Gernhardt said...

I guess most of you must be used to Joe ignoring you by now- because most of you didn't bother watching.

We had over 1800 readers hit the site meter yesterday and only 200 people watched the video according to the google video counter.

That's amazing.

craichead said...

Craig, you don't want to sit down and talk with Joe?? Why? You clearly hate the man, but this is unreal. He generously offered to sit down and answer some questions (which admittedly may or may not have been a front for the camera), and you're throwing a hissy fit because it's not on your own terms of engagement. You don't want to talk at all...you just want to antagonize.

You sound like a teenager. And Christ, no offense to teenagers!

What's the point of this entire blog? To just bitch and moan about JoMo and try to make him look stupid? You want no substantiative discourse with the man...but get him on your camera, and suddenly you're the angelic, sadsack victim whose alderman won't answer his few simple questions. You clearly want to be a catalyst for improvement in the ward. Great! So motivate and mobilize your audience here for action. There's plenty of soap opera crap out there. We don't need more of that. That's why only 200 of your 1800 viewers cared enough to watch the video. We've seen it again and again, Craig. Give us something JoMo-related with any degree of substance, and we'll tune in. It ain't rocket science.

You want transparency in the ward. Well, you've demonstrated another kind of transparency...one that reveals your own motives. Grow up, Craig.

-Brian Gilmore

Craig Gernhardt said...

Brian said... > "What's the point of this entire blog? To just bitch and moan about JoMo and try to make him look stupid?"

In a nutshell, that about sums it up. I should've used that as my heading. Thanks for reading.

Uncle Wally said...

Gee Craig I would have said this:

"OK Joe Moore, who in your office do a I call to schedule an appointment with you."

Then he would have had to answer your question.

You could have scheduled the appointment with your other bloggers and had something decent to write about. I'm with Craichead on this one.

Craig Gernhardt said...

Unkle Wally, you truly have no idea what you’re talking about.

Unkle Wally, Joe's a known liar. Why would I waste my time going to his office to have him blatantly lie to me off camera? I can get that any other time. That wouldn't be news.

Unkle Wally, If I'm going to do the interview and be lied too, I'd rather get the all the juicy fibs on camera.

Natas said...

I got an idea craigie poo, here, meet me infront of uh, Morse Land, that place should be "cool" enough for you, you know a man of such refined standards.

I'll stick a camera in your face and ask you a bunch of stupid questions that don't have a place in a civilized conversation among children let alone adults and see how you answer, you know what you do.

Then, I'll edit for public all the whole thing to show "the truth" just like you do.

When you want to meet for your on camera 15 seconds of fame?

Anonymous said...

No, this is not the safest or best neighborhood in the world. If it were, the rents would be a hell of a lot more for the very nice apartments you can find in Rogers Park.

Try Ravenswood neighborhood. Sure there’s no lake but rent is comparable, it’s safer, has better retail/restaurants, and assessable by metra and el stops. Not too long ago, my rent was $750 for a two bedroom in a midrise elevator building very close to two brown line stops and metra with easy-street parking, shopping and restaurants.

Morse is fine to walk down during the day and I would dare say at night if you are going to the "El" so long as you don't act like you are afraid of the low lives on the street. Lunt is totally fine to walk down to go to the "El" and if you have a bus pass, you can get to the Morse "El" station on that side and avoid Morse altogether if you wish.

I’m fine with this but it’s kind of sad if these are the standards. Sometimes, it's just not a matter of being afraid. I've seen unprovoked incidents of a teen verbally attacked and women get sexually harrassed.

This place is no different than Wicker Park or Humbolt Park used to be 10-15 years ago. It's changing- people just expect it to happen overnight.

I agree but I don't expect change to happen overnight. I say the earliest it will happen is summer 2011.

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