This Friday, join the community in a walk around the neighborhood to provide a positive influence in our area. The walk will start at Kilmer Playlot (6700 North Bosworth) starting at 7 PM. We will be walking the area from Ashland to Newgard and Pratt to Albion, focusing on the activity at Pratt and Ashland. Please bring your friends and family and meet your neighbors.
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I am in.
Please do join us, we are trying to build the number of attendees.
I'm coming.
sorry, folks, but what a waste of time. the only way you can effect change - real change, that is - is constant positive loitering. one night is not going to do anything. what do you do in terms of walking/hanging around rp during the rest of the week? the month? do you hang out a circle park and read a book or drink coffee with friends? what about other, less wholesome areas? you want to effect change? then change your behavior on a permanent basis. an hour or two one night in the summer will otherwise amount to zip.
Pearl,
Concerned people are looking for other like minded neighbors. The traffic on the blogs is proof of that. A one night walk might not change things, but giving people a way of connecting can be a catalyst.
Dumping tea into Boston Harbor wasn't the Revolution itself...but it lead to change.
I'm in.
Cold beer?
Pearl
Many of us that regularly attend this walk (which has been going on since June) spend plenty of time walking our dogs, sitting on our porches, tending to our yards. We are trying to encourage others to do the same as well as bring attention to trouble spots.
pearl, we got to harangue the current weasel CHA has sent out to do nothing about the two rotten beyond belief CHA buildings on Bosworth! He claimed he was going to do something about replacing a short fence with a tall fence. Highly doubtful as no one from CHA has ever kept their word on anything.
Of course he & his useless, worthless predeccessors never did a damn thing about getting rid of the criminals that live in these buildings, even tough they're not on the lease, which if you ever came to one of these walks you would learn is a violation of the lease & the lessee is supposed to be evicted!
As for your suggestion of constant, positive loitering, there were cops there & the scum still hung around. If they're not afraid of the cops, just who would they be afraid of?
This is cool regardless of what PEARL says. Wish there was something similar near my place on Greenleaf. Regarding the CHA dwelling near Bosworth and Pratt. Name a CHA project in RP that IS nice where the residents RESPECT others and where you generally don't see 30 people standing around doing nothing all hours of the day?? Does such a thing exist? And is this "neighborhood walk" meant to "send a message" to these CHA folks?? If so I do think that PEARL is a teeny-tiny bit right.
Pearl has watched a lot of walks in 2 decades here and hasn't seen change as a result. Walks may be great for making new friends but they don't get rid of crime or problems. For that exhausting work is required whereby politicos are harassed, cops pestered, and mores of behavior changed by changing laws and taking zero tolerance attitude. No one should be given a free pass to bad behavior whether they are a liquor store owner, poor, or mentally challenged. As much as it pains me to say it, developers have done more to improve RP than anything else. Then again, maybe not. Neighbor's kid mugged the other day in broad daylight; shootings in broad daylight in Uptown. Clearly the bad guys are taking over and it's A-OK with our political leaders. We care more about criminal rights than victims or society as a whole. Apparently.
Instead of just taking a neighborhood walk, why don't you all go out and take a neighborhood crap. And take your dogs with you. If you are not familiar with the practice of a neighborhood crap, your dogs will enlighten you. Leave piles of shit aound on your neighbors lawns. And while you're at it, take a piss on the lawns as well. Kill the neighborhood grass so we can look more ghetto.
why did you let chipbagg make that comment? That was just worthless nonsense!
A walk is always a good thing - at lease it lets them know we won't just sit back and let them do what they want. The more we stand up and speak our minds, the better! I applaud it!
If all these walks accomplish is to enable caring neighbors to get to know each other and form friendships, then they have done a massive amount of good for the neighborhood.
It's no news that most neighborhoods in the U.S. are dispiriting places where people can live alongside each other for years and yet never even speak to each other. They are, to use a word grown trite from overuse and misuse, alienating.
I had a brokerage client in DuPage County who came back from a 2-week vacation with his family to find that his Naperville home had been MOVED OUT on him in his absence. Someone had pulled a moving van up and proceeded to empty his entire household into it. This is a very frequent occurence in the outer suburbs, in subdivisions stuffed with corporate transferees who move every two years. Nobody would question a moving van in a neighborhood like that, but nobody would question it anyway because nobody knows anybody.
Rogers Park has survived the upheavals and assaults on it of the past thirty years as well as it has, IMO, because of the extraordinary sense of community around here. No matter how bad off you might think this area is in matters of blight and crime, were it not for the fighting spirit and powerful sense of community of RP, this area would now look like the slums of Gary. Same thing goes for Edgewater- Loyola would find itself an island in a sea of deep blight were it not for the cooperating neighbors who fought to save the area for themselves.
Craig, I apologize for not showing Friday, and I feel bad for having missed the walk because I'm sure it was a good time. Business intervened. Hope I can get to the next one.
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