Tennis shoes hanging from the electrical wires can only mean one thing in Rogers Park. A open air drug market. Can you tell us where this drug market indication corner is located? (Rogers Park 60645 is not eligible.) Winner scores season one of 'Gossip Girl' Pro Gun turned down.
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We've had over 500 visitors so far this morning and not one person knows? Unbelievable.
Do the shoes really signify an open-air drug market?
Rogers Street, just east of Clark.
The tennis shoes signify someone being shot and killed. Each hanging set of shoes, is a person gunned down... usually a friend.
Yup, Clark and Rogers/Birchwood. Near Rogers Park Fruit Market.
the tennis shoe thing started in south central LA... plenty of hanging shoes in Compton, LA
Could this possibly be the apt building on the southeast corner of Damen and Touhy?
How can anyone turn down Gossip Girl??? I love that show.
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This is at Chase and N Hamilton.. We have lot's of dealers over here just making a living. I think I might go into the biz they are inton, no taxes, no govt intervention, Police don't bother them and the aldreman's office is fucking ok with the dealing. I call, they don't show. Sick of this shit. Cops promise ot work it, but hey don't. And if you guys want to report this guy, he drives a dark Intrepid with the license plate A16 3955. Three of em in the car at all times, selling over here alot. If anyone is intersted.
Ashland?
Ashland?
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I'm in Denver right now for round 4 of the AMA EnduroCross series. I'll be back tomorrow afternoon.
I was wrong but I would have guessed 20 yards east of the Rogers Park Library (next to the grade school) in the alley that separartes them.
Yeah, there are a ton in the alley between Morse and Farwell. Though I've never noticed any drug activity in that area.
you people are so ignorant. shoes hanging on the wires does not mean someone was killed, nor drug markets around. It simply means that a kid bought new tennis shoes and got rid of his old ones.
latinking said...
you people are so ignorant. shoes hanging on the wires does not mean someone was killed, nor drug markets around. It simply means that a kid bought new tennis shoes and got rid of his old ones.
Who is the ignorant one, LatinQueen? I have studied gangs for years, and know that in LA, hanging shoes symbolizes a person shot.
chicago, this is not L.A.is it.. This is Chicago.
Shoes hanging around may or may not signify gang activity. It could have been some dumb kids thinking it is cool to do that, or it could be something more serious. Unless the shoes in the alley between Morse and Farwell have been there for years, there hasn't been any noticeable drug/gang activity in the time I've lived there. Not saying there isn't, but I haven't noticed anything and I travel in that alley frequently as well as many of the other residents of that block.
In my neighborhood, it just means someone got jumped and their shoes gets thrown up on the powerlines. I doubt the gangbangers throw them up there to advertise their drugs. If thats the case, there will be thousands of open air markets in chicago
Southsider, there are THOUSANDS of them!
Arcman & Lindsay, just keep your eyes open. There is a ton of activity in that alley.
I spent a bit of time in Mexico. Hanging a pair gym shoes on the electric lines are a sign of good luck. Some Futbol Players throw their gym shoes onto the lines when they win, as well. Considered bad luck to remove them.
I've worked with the CPD as a cameraman on the Crimewatch show -- and of course asked the gang unit what this meant... (btw - I don't work for them, I just work for TV and am completely independently employed)
Their response was - "It used to mean a drug market, but as the hanging shoes stayed there and the police found out what it meant, other drug distribution methods got more tempting.."
Now, its apparently an empty styrofoam or paper cup tipped over on an iron fence in the front of a building. That's what the vice squad told me anyway. So, if you see that, it means business is open.
Call the police... and don't be anonymous. Its our neighborhood - not the ones who are uncaringly trying to destroy it....
JVonAshland
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