A BLIGHTED Chicago Suburb On Its Last Leg | Dixmoor, Illinois

[@ChrisHarden]

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[@davidgago6712]

I wonder what a lot of Chicago's rough suburbs will look like in 20 or 30 years from now.

[@aprilh9124]

I truly believe that the suburbs went to hell when the projectd started coming doen in the 90s. Everybody started moving towards the suburbs and my hometown Hammond. We definitely saw a difference out there so i can only imagine hownit affected the other suburbs

[@MooPotPie]

Once again we see the devastating effects of de-industrialization and the loss of manufacturing jobs which sustained communities such as this. Most who can afford to leave do so. No significant development replaces what is lost. Poverty, crime, and corruption ensue as a result. Such typical a scenario now as to be cliched.

[@grimmace1834]

As a resident of Hammond and working in Riverdale, and living in the Calumet region over 40 years , I really enjoy your videos.

[@ChrisHarden]

Awesome! Thank you

[@themagnificentone5969]

Dolton is soon heading there.

[@Imperial0666]

@@themagnificentone5969 Harvey makes Dolton look like Naperville

[@richardm3023]

Ah, Dixmoor. When you can't make it in Blue Island, you move into a trailer park in Dixmoor.

[@kendalson7100]

Truth!

[@ChrisHarden]

Haha

[@Maaaatttttt]

Thanks for the advice. Can't afford much these days

[@chiraqburbs708]

No cap and blue island is bogus lol I lived in oak forest midlothian and Posen if you live in dixmoor you might as well live in Harvey

[@1PrinceJay]

You got that right! 😂😂😂

[@joannunemaker6332]

All that money should have replaced those water mains. I feel bad for the people who have to live there 😢❤

[@paulj6756]

The metal scrapyard may have been the site of National Railway Equipment (NRE). NRE was a scrapper of locomotives and also a dealer and rebuilder of them. I was a railfan back in the 1980s and 1990s. Back then my railfan buddies and I would drive down from the Northwest Side to Dolton Crossing (it was a lot safer back then) and we'd always make a side trip to NRE to see what locomotives were sitting on the siding.

[@AriesSuperLove]

I remember when the suburbs used to be nice and manicured looking and now it went to ish

[@ChrisHarden]

There’s plenty of nice suburbs… Just… not the ones that I’ve been showing the past few months 🥴

[@5339kimhall]

One of the highest taxed states in the country and still can’t get it together. I’m so glad I left 40 years ago.

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

I hope you aren't voting for the same politicians

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

I know the southern portion of Cook County is getting worse over the years, especially in South Side Chicago. When it comes to suburbs, Dixmoor, IL is quite a different struggling suburb in Chicagoland. I think Dixmoor has to be the most corrupt suburb in Cook County.

[@ChrisHarden]

Definitely corrupt, but more than Dolton?

[@boristheamerican2938]

More than Cicero? Bellwood?

[@Section_8_Supercars]

No suburb was more corrupt than bridgeview when oremus was mayor

[@NunyaBizznaz]

black

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

What about Harvey, IL? It sucks too. When I think of the northern portion of Cook County, it's decent, but the best suburbs in Chicagoland has to be in DuPage County.

[@302Mustang13]

Thanks Chris. Another Chicago suburb I'll be sure to avoid permanently.

[@richardm3023]

You need to do Phoenix, Illinois soon!

[@ChrisHarden]

Did. 2nd video of Harvey on my archive channel

[@richardm3023]

@@ChrisHarden I'll check it out. Used to teach school there.

[@chicosworld]

Phoenix vid will last like 5 minutes it's only 9 blocks lol my best friend from there 😂

[@richardm3023]

@@chicosworld it's a unique experience that's for sure. Like I said I taught middle school there for a number of years.

[@MokenaBob]

Thanks for the video. As a kid, I grew up in South Blue Island. Hung out In Dixmoor a lot . Sure has Changed. Now I am in Mokena. Yes and go to the town of Phoenix.

[@6300As]

I used to work in posen il 9 yrs ago same mess its so sad looking especially in the night depressing

[@bonzocleach2496]

There is a 1997 article in the Chicago Tribune about the Dixmoor Park District having 59 police officers. They had 7 in 1994. The Park District had no office. I think the article is behind a pay wall so this is a clip "The Dixmoor Park District currently collects nearly $250,000 in taxes. Until recently, it listed as many as 59 officers on its police force, including, federal prosecutors alleged Friday, a leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang. The Park District doesn’t have an office, and its phone number is disconnected. In fact, the entire village has only one little park. Even officials at Dixmoor Village Hall aren’t sure how to contact the Park District or where to find its officers." “The last time I heard, they were in St. Mark’s Church,” said Towana Ashley, a village water clerk. "Dixmoor has just a tiny “tot lot” called Children’s Memorial Park. The park at 143rd Street and Paulina Avenue has two swing sets, a slide and a couple of plastic whales and pelicans for children to rock back and forth. There’s a fence around the swing sets, but the seats are falling off the swings, and there is no lighting in or around the park."

[@tamboogie2]

The water main issues are all of Thorton Township

[@davehawash2255]

Wonderfully said Chris, Dixmoor will be Nomoor!!!

[@His_Name_Was_King]

The better question should be "Is their any city that isn't corrupt in Illinois"?

[@chrisgoffe5048]

..these are great to watch ..I'm in New Zealand 🇳🇿 so its interesting to see bits of America

[@JV-mw7gv]

I worked these areas (the last several videos) as a field manager for a big company for over a decade and grew up nearby. I still live about ten minutes away in a pretty good spot, Oak Forest. I only dream about New Zealand. Nice to hear from ya! 🫡

[@Clementinee]

wow surprised a kiwi even knows of our south suburban existence. hope to see what nz is like one day

[@warbirdwf]

Sad that folks are so poor that they can't afford to board up their homes and move away from those corrupt, dying cities. No wonder there's liquor stores on every corner. I'd be drunk all the time if I had to live there too.

[@wandak1889]

Dixmoor Meat Market been selling bad meat since the 80’s!

[@Chitwn81]

Mannn most of the southern Cook County suburbs are in disarray. Thank goodness the western suburbs are in a much better shape and look a hell of alot better esthetically

[@shelbyz1974]

If you're a Harvey resident would you really want to annex Dixmoor? Thank you Chris for another entertaining video of where not to buy a home in Illinois. Gritty music fits this city perfectly.

[@ChrisHarden]

And thank you for all of the support as always!

[@Brookfieldilrailfan]

Chicago suburbs especially southern and some western suburbs have been going downhill over the past years only good chicago suburbs are Hinsdale,Clarendon Hills,La Grange, Western Springs, Oak brook, Elmhurst, Willow springs pretty much all the higher class suburbs

[@user-wy1dl2me2p]

Sounds like Jackson Mississippi

[@jerrystadeker5978]

Don't forget where you came from. It's not where you from, its how you come!

[@kennybubash3278]

Another great video. I enjoy watching them !

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks!

[@christopherbuckley94]

Blue Island is a popular place for train watching especially at the junction and cross-overs of Broadway St on the north side of town. There are several rusty steel bridges over the SAG -Cal Channel which make for nice photo backgrounds. There is a lot of train movements through this intersection. The area is a little on the grungy side for sure. There is a little unpaved parking area, and one of the homes has quite a nice garden growing in his backyard during the summer including a small orchard of peach trees. I did find a Dunkin' Donuts in the town proper, so how bad could it be? I forgot to ask if they had toasted coconut!😜😂 If you run out of locations in the rust belt, we have quite a few super fund sites here in New Jersey! Keep up the good work!

[@ChrisHarden]

Doesn’t New Jersey have more superfund sites per capita than any other state?

[@christopherbuckley94]

@@ChrisHarden I think so.

[@eddieb5149]

It's like a mini Flint, Michigan. So sad

[@buckjones4901]

and run by the same political party.

[@erictorow250]

Dixmoore looks better than both flint Michigan and Gary Indiana and Camden new jersey and East Cleveland Ohio, all combined into one messed up community folks thanks for listening and sharing anyway s😊

[@aprilh9124]

Gary bad but it don't look like this amd the water is drinkable

[@4149stonepony]

I love your videos especially all your Illinois videos, it saves me time and curiosity of driving into these places. Why I love the ghetto, sorry deindustrialized and abandoned places can be something people should see and has political and economic lessons involved.

[@jpjpjp6328]

Took a quick look on Google maps seeing if there was some rail infrastructure that could be at least some help to the town a bit and saw a number of spur lines which looked promising. Switched to satellite view and found that they were all overgrown and long out of service. Oh well.

[@FrequencyORD]

My family and I live in frankfort illinois and sometimes I forget how close we live to this overflowing toilet 😂

[@citizenkang2524]

Dixmoor had a volunteer fire department.

[@bearworldwide101]

I could see Dixmoor split in two where the trailer park and junkyard side will go to Blue Island and even some unincorporated areas of blue island. And the areas south of the third set of tracks south of the junkyards can go to Harvey. Basically along racial lines the north is mostly Hispanic and White the south is mostly Black. But as more people move out of Dixmoor I can also see demographics changes in the town as more Hispanics/immigrants moving into places like Blue Island Posen and creeping eastward towards these areas and Harvey.

[@NathanColeman-r9c]

Hey Chris, Your Shit is too gloomy boy.I move to different subjects starting now!☹️

[@trell019]

11:39 why does this sound like it can happen today!!!! Sounds just like what we been going thru the past couple of years

[@mnoliberal7335]

My great grandparents lived on Wood Street, but in Harvey. Bet it's a vacant lot today. One way to find out.

[@user-wy1dl2me2p]

Thats too bad about the steel manufacturing back in the 80 s i became a certified welder and did it for 3 years.not healthy but fun .

[@heystarfish100]

What comes to these towns first, Democrats or despair?

[@WN_Byers]

Democrats. 100%

[@spaceghost8995]

Industries left . BOTH parties are too blame for all that. These problems started decades ago.

[@heystarfish100]

@@spaceghost8995 You need to research the Trump “USMCA” Act.

[@user-wy1dl2me2p]

Tyffany henyard is going through Dolton like crap through a goose 😅 gimme dat mutha phuqa!

[@santo-rr4uv]

Send migrants there. Then you will see how fast the government fixes the water issue.

[@erictorow250]

If dixmoore residents want help with there water supply problems flint Michigan people know exactly how they feel from past years of flooding drought like policies from there corrupt politicians who are in charge of the town😮

[@blueztx]

Ha ha, you drove right by "Dimoor Meat Market". That came up first in my search of this town. South Side Chicago and it's troubled suburbs are a national embarrassment.

[@frankwoods4532]

Thanks Chris for sharing.👍

[@crippleguy415]

Go check out Robbins . Where Robbin' is what they love to do there 😂

[@ChrisHarden]

Video coming soon

[@mrh6431]

Another great video,Chris

[@virginiamccaskey1897]

Love the series

[@lloyddavies5587]

Your RAM upgrade "Saved the Business"...

[@spaceghost8995]

I deliver cardboard to a company in Dixmoor all the time. Yep the whole region is trashed. Dixmoor, Harvey, Blue Island, Posen, Calumet City, Dolton, Sauk Village, Chicago Heights, Homewood, Markham, South Holland and many more are all sadly trashed.

[@ryanwilliams5093]

Homewood is doing just fine.

[@spaceghost8995]

@@ryanwilliams5093 You are correct sir! I got Homewood confused with something else.

[@SanFelipeCreek]

Pritzker he is an anecdotally nightmare for Illinois I don't believe Pritzker was ever in East St Louis Illinois I used anecdotally as a substitute word for something else because Pritzker he gets my blood boiling and I'm not over in Illinois I'm in Missouri. I have friends and family trapped in Illinois and I can't afford to get them out. Dexter Lombardo out 🤠🧔 Great video next time do Northbrook Illinois they cook the books too they live behind those gates in those gated communities they are bad people.

[@boweandrew3]

Fascinating history

[@cashIND219]

Not to mention the water mains keep breaking leaving people without water..

[@jays.4254]

My guess if the highway wasn't running through Dixmoor it would be in far worse shape. but still a very good video Chris

[@cynthiawylie3584]

If you live in Oakland California, dixmoor looks like the place to be!.

[@ChrisHarden]

Anywhere looks like the place to be compared to Oakland, California

[@Imperial0666]

​@@ChrisHardenif it's so bad why does it still cost so much to live there?

[@craignovy2090]

Well I have had quite a day viewing your videos...from Santa Barbara Beautiful and Unaffordable to this. Very disparate places and both handled very well by you...amazing. Corruption is often about kicking others when they are already down...despicable. I thought about your prophetic livability score in many different places while driving through Chicagoland on a recent visit. Thanks to you I am seeing places more deeply and thoughtfully.

[@ChrisHarden]

Thank you for all of your support!

[@theSimpsons-sd5ro]

The city of dixmoor, Illinois is in the south suburbs of Illinois, In the south suburbs of Illinois environment , The south suburbs of Illinois people, Ride regular paddle bicycles, you have "strip clubs", skating rinks , the people in the south suburbs of Illinois drive, Ford focus similar cars and have Driving school bus jobs. Its impossible to go broke in the south suburbs of Illinois. Their are "money street clicks" in the city of Dixmoor Illinois, That are about money, No rules or structure. The violence in the south suburbs of Illinois doesn't go over Fist fights . It's impossible to go broke on the south suburbs of Illinois for anyone doesn't matter who you are or where your from.

[@joelyons3713]

That’s horrible.

[@mikeya247]

That is a sad, bleak place. I can only imagine what it's like in the middle of winter...😢

[@mnoliberal7335]

Dixmoor has few taxpayers. Too few to make it as a city. Couldn't even have a decent riot in Dixmoor. Better to buy out and level almost all the homes and streets/sidewalks and return the land to Agriculture.

[@JefferyHagen]

It was a forging company and that’s a steam plant for their steam hammers not a coal plant.

[@foodhomedotcom2716]

I'd really appreciate if you had a livability score indicating the availability of sex industry. Stuff like street walkers, gentlemen's clubs, and shady massage parlors.

[@suburbankaren5137]

The theme song at the start of the video sets my mind for "uh oh, here we go on this city."😂😂

[@bertvosburg558]

Local Government sounds about like Detroit was when Kwame was in there. Knew a fellow that got his tail in a ringer because he had dealings with Kwame, had a lot of money too henceforth why K. cuddled up to him. Crooks all.

[@buckethead5803]

Only make their money by taking trucks to scale hoping for an overweight ticket. Now with the construction no cops around

[@LouisEmery]

Why don't you mention what political party have been in charge there?

[@SL-vi4tk]

If Chicago continues its path, the entire state of Illinois will be vacated.

[@hanorokpony420]

12:49 I know he's white but that riot cop kind of looks like Obama

[@TheMidwestWaterproofing]

Dixmoor taxes are expected to increase 122% in 2025

[@vancegilmore245]

Horrible music in this video. How could you??

[@Wasimamirali]

Can u do phoenix IL

[@unclestinky6388]

There's plenty of money in the public pensions to solve the water problem in the south suburbs.

[@ChrisHarden]

Haha probably so

[@DanielSlaughter-vi5hy]

Looks alot like Highland Park in Mi.

[@paulbrower]

Could it revert to agriculture?

[@spaceghost8995]

The entire planet will revert to nature after humans go extinct.

[@jonpeterson4085]

if there is shitheads, its blighted!!!

[@jamesswidergal7875]

Keep on voting democrats in, and you will have more Dixmoors.

[@bonzocleach2496]

It's not like people have a choice. Republicans don't run for office in the poor black suburbs. They don't run in the better off black suburbs either. Candidates get zero support from the Republican party. You have to go to the southwest suburbs or across the border to Indiana before you can find communities where the Republican organizations will spend money on their candidates.

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

Those gates and bars keeping Dixmoor residents confined in their town are shocking. Oh wait, there are none. The residents are free to leave and become welfare burdens somewhere else.

[@videokompuuter]

u all dix, u too chris :D

[@lucken13]

Thank God for living rural, no city water for me! Well water with high water tables! 🤪

[@Clementinee]

thank god if your pickup truck broke down, it's only a 45 minute walk to the nearest grocery store lmao

[@lucken13]

@@Clementinee lol, I can easily get food out the door of my house, deer! Let alone garden is huge!!!! Don’t have to depend on a store! Also have multiple vehicles! Not like you, have to depend on a local grocery store!!!!

[@tomcat630]

You're not "poor shaming" like some other channel, "world according to (redacted)", OTOH, outsiders need to know Chicago area is not all "rust belt". We got may thriving communities, all over.

[@restoscott]

very bad music

[@erictorow250]

Your right I was wrong all three of those comments on Those communities are not as bad as dixmoore .on the other hand ✋ hand i could be wrong 😑 that’s a wrap up Folks for today’s world history lesson as always Chris your videos are amazing 😊😊😊😊

[@erictorow250]

Your right I was wrong all three of those comments on Those communities are not as bad as dixmoore .on the other hand ✋ hand i could be wrong 😑 that’s a wrap up Folks for today’s world history lesson as always Chris your videos are amazing 😊😊😊😊

[@michaelsteele4587]

What needs to be done with 90% of these kinda areas is all remaining residents should be given money to relocate and the land should be completely cleared and reverted back to farmland. We're literally wasting billions and billions of dollars every year trying to keep these kinda suburbs afloat for what exactly? Trying to keep these alive would be like trying to keep a store like Kmart open that only sees 4 customers per day. There comes a point when its time to just turn off the lights and abandoned the whole property.

[@Kihsiimawa]

Why is it so easy to not have to answer to anyone for embezzling money? Because in Illinois, there are no consequences...or so folk think...

[@lifeinvestments6329]

There's a lot of rundown towns in the state of Illinois you can make over a million bucks just in Illinois doing these videos😂😂😂

[@kathinelson3627]

Another example of democratic run state

[@anthony_rivera4735]

I always get dixmoor and Posen mixed up with each other.

[@richardm3023]

Just remember Posen has homes that are for rent. Dixmoor has mobile homes for rent.

[@MokenaBob]

Nosing in Posen

[@chicityvetIckes079]

Posen is a little further west

[@rambojambone4586]

After all the property taxes are behind, the houses foreclosed, they can put down gravel for a big tent camp. It’s gonna be great!

[@TeresaHall-l5q]

Hi Chris I want to know do you ever do the city tours lived on the southeast side of Chicago my hold life. The history when I lived there the southeast side alway been nice middle class after the 90 it started to go down bad it would be great if you do one

[@tonywestvirginia]

I love all your videos but, The new ghetto music. Not a fan.

[@45AMT]

So basically there's not moor Dix in Dixmoor anymore......😆

[@donaldszymczak]

right off the bat you said "freeways" you aint from here . the Tollways are only temporary u see

[@ChrisHarden]

Oh man. Is that what gave it away?

[@donaldszymczak]

@@ChrisHarden not rippin on you , Ill is just corrupt as hell ! the Tollway System tops the list . I enjoy your vids

[@I_LOVE_THE_SUNCOAST]

What is that huge cluster of buildings in the background at 0:59?! Just kidding.

[@bas1010]

So you're saying Dixmoor has a drinking problem? 😁

[@timr31908]

Every time we see blight we know there's a huge amount of blue attached to it... We need about a hundred Donald Trump's to ever fix anything. 😊

[@spaceghost8995]

Trump has never fixed anything in his life. He leaves destruction all along the way. Of course I understand that cult members cannot see this.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Do a video on Lake Forest. I hear that place is a dump.

[@DasDutchman56]

All of these Crap South Suburbs have 1 thing in common. Can you guess what that could be ?

[@Imissyoulou]

Naw, what is it? They have POOR whites on all of those suburbs.

[@AriesSuperLove]

The ghetto

[@abreckenridge3001]

Haha no what could it be?

[@brianl6964]

No jobs

[@eddieb5149]

Democrats

[@Truckngirl]

A feeding pen for the zombie apocalypse.