Chicago in 1980s

Chicago in 1980s
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[@hbc586]

The 80s was definitely the BEST DECADE!!! I'm born & raised in NYC but always LOVED Chicago since a kid from watching all the great 80s movie's & TV show's. 🎬🎥

[@jediconnor9349]

Sorry, what movies took place in Chicago during the 80s? My memories are bad and I don’t feel like looking all that up. Edit: Nvm, I remember now.

[@bigal05171957]

IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME CHICAGO WAS SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL IN THE 70S AND 80S 😊😎🌞✌️☮️

[@Yp3ri0n]

what a decade !! lucky the ones who lived it

[@citydweller99]

This is the Chicago of my childhood

[@jfes772]

Your background music fit the decade when R&B music had a sound like that in the 80s

[@bigblackscarymikester2731]

I was born in 1982 and only have a few faint memories of Chicago pre-1990 but I do remember how gritty it was, and knowing the horrible crime waves it was going through. Lots of gritty industrial businesses and factories were humming all along Lake Street, Elston, and all around downtown back in those days. On the other hand, I remember how many small businesses there were before Whole Foods, Mariano's, and Trader Joe's and I easily remember the days when me and mom argued whether to go to Dominick's (now defunct) or Jewel-Osco. Montgomery Ward, Woolworth's, Dominick's, The infamous Cicero/Ogden/BNSF overpass bridge and interchange ramps, Cabrini-Green, Robert Taylor Homes, and countless drug stores and restaurants, all of which are now long gone. Many of the areas I regularly went through in recent years, were in fact either very unsafe or were heavily industrialized. The Wacker Drive building with the white lights on the top south of the Sears Tower had yet to exist, as did the NBC building with two pairs of antennas just north of the Sears Tower. More than half of the high-rises that dominate the skyline today didn't exist then. Chicago simply put came off as being more 'spacious' before high-density development took off after the 1996 Democratic Convention. Mind you, Chicago was incredibly dangerous as hell back in this era but it was simply a different place and it's hard to compare Chicago of the 1980s to now. From what I gather, the crime is lower now but has come in truly vicious ugly spasms rather than be consistently high like in the 1980s and early 1990s. Back then, there were large gangs with well-defined structure and moral codes and large well-defined territories that rivals knew not to muscle in on. Now with the old OG leaders arrested, or dead, these gangs have fragmented into hundreds of smaller gang-cells that now fight each other on small blocks and it has led to very ugly spikes in violent crime, partially also aggravated by the pandemic. Chicago has always been extremes of awesome and awful throughout it's history. If it wasn't notorious for its current-day gang violence issues, it was notorious for Mafia-related massacres such as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929 as well as Al Capone and other mobsters running the show during the Prohibition Era. On the other hand, it has also always been a world class city that has attracted countless peoples to both visit and live in from around the world and it is also an incredibly resilient city that I hope will weather the current crises facing it right now.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Chicago is an unpredictable city

[@Helga_Chi]

Thank you for this comment, I am an immigrant and I live in NW Suburbs now, previously I rented an apartment on N Dearborn St and that was golden time. I fell in love with Chicago irrevocably. It's still dangerous and problematic but gosh, it's sooo beautiful! It was very interesting to read something about its history. Thanks again

[@CesarRuiz-tc7ru]

You hit it on the head.. Chicago born n raised.. Please suburb folk, please do not say you're from Chicago when you're really from the burbs.. Real Chicago people hate that.

[@josh_uz1520]

People driving without look at their smartphones, look how chill all the driving is

[@robertpreston2220]

Miss this Chicago so much!

[@benhaushalter5067]

Wish I could have lived it.

[@robertpreston2220]

@@benhaushalter5067 Wish I could go back and live there again

[@yemi1776]

You're kidding right? Chicago was one of the most violent cities during the 80s and the 90s. But you're just blinded by nostalgia thinking everything today sucks.

[@robertpreston2220]

@@yemi1776 It its FAR worse now than ever.

[@Hrrjkf821]

@@yemi1776, you think anything about Chicago is better today? Lol, you’re dead wrong 😑. Decades ago, it was still dangerous, but in a better condition than…NOW…

[@74dWasTaken]

Those two men in the 1959 Cadillac convertible though, but quite neat to see Chicago in 1980

[@mikecerny5343]

This music doesn't go good with the 1959 Cadillac how about punk surf rock n hip hop rap

[@ZMAN_420]

Very cool. I have lived in Chicagoland for my whole life. Since 82

[@chevyboyzz4996]

Damn I miss Chicago I was just there for New Years now that I live in Dallas I miss this modern yet so old school looking city

[@abegoldman8749]

Everybody was looking in the newspaper for work back then, using index cards at the library, having a cord phone in their home

[@germanchris4440]

The way it should be. Today, nothing is as it should be.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

@@germanchris4440 Reading an outdated newspaper, with news from the previous day and index cards at library is how it should be????😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@PRHILL9696]

Would give anything for Chicago to be great again like this!

[@ryandonato550]

Stop. It was a shithole then and a shithole now.

[@PRHILL9696]

@@ryandonato550 You sound like a child

[@hueso5071]

Chicago was a lot worse back then.

[@PRHILL9696]

@@hueso5071 It was a million times better

[@robertpreston2220]

I think we all would love Chicago to be like this again

[@twofifty1028]

Awesome footage, Thank you for uploading this.

[@countyourblestings1220]

Before hipsters were everywhere

[@silvrx-pz3ce]

This was the 80s not the 1800s hipsters were everywere in the 30s!!!

[@davidmccann9811]

@@silvrx-pz3ce All that happens with hipsters is, they get old and get a mortgage. And then they complain about the city being full of hipsters and kids not being what they used to be when they themselves were young.

[@NightMare-j7i]

Reminds me of my dad who came from honduras in the 80s he always talked about how beautiful it was in the 80s chicago and I can see why

[@johnathanrobinzine3149]

I like that town of chicago In 1980.s

[@Alouicious]

I wish the whole video was that shot of the Kennedy, the Metra train, and downtown. That part is just dreamy.

[@marissamoralez7437]

i love the music

[@snowbro540]

Single Goats Dream - Emily Shepard

[@Carolina_Panthers145]

The old days. Smh times has changed..

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

change is inevitable

[@FUNDIR5]

Caddy blows through red light at .23, 7 seconds later, police car rolls up and says "Nah".

[@Gravydog316]

that's actually from a TJ Hooker episode called The Chicago Connection; that Caddy was a cop car LOL

[@Figgs313]

What song is this? Bad assssss.

[@Dave39359]

Treasure Island by E.B. The Pharaoh

[@Figgs313]

@@Dave39359 you da man!!!

[@Dave39359]

@@Figgs313 Thank you!

[@snowbro540]

​@@Dave39359 Wrong. Single Goats Dream - Emily Shepard. Pharaoh did an awful remix

[@snowbro540]

Single Goats Dream - Emily Shepard

[@siemenstraffic]

The White 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible is stock fotoage from an episode of T.J. Hooker - The Chicago Connection Episode aired May 4, 1985

[@retroolschool]

I was wondering about that! I mean cops in a 59 Caddy responding in 1983?

[@amin77illinois]

I remember all them days back then in Chicago which I was like 5 years ole in 1982 Now days Chicago has gotten so much worse but more outta common now Here it is 2022 and these kids now days are running around with guns shooting up who whom ever. I never experienced gun violence period in Chicago back in the 80a and we grew up in the south side of Chicago on the low end area around 58th street

[@KiraYamatofandeGundam]

0:15 Cadillac el dorado 1959Details of the Cadillac Pontiac Firebird

[@trevorhembrough1290]

You realize Chicago’s more than the two mile radius within the Loop this entire video was shot in, right?

[@EddyTheDesigner]

You realize the video is still Chicago in the 1980s. right?

[@spike378]

31 years and it hasnt change at all.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

You couldn't be more wrong. downtown in this era was a place where people went for work and then they went home. Now there's more people living in the loop than there ever was in the late 20th century. tons of new skyscrapers have gone up and some have been torn down. Cabrini Green on the north side is almost completely gone now. Sometimes it's hard to believe how much it's changed in just the 20 years I've seen

[@SerenityNow9015]

1:52 legend has it that tan colored nissan is still trying to move over to this day

[@jalilmuhammad8270]

Chicago was very slow in wiring itself for cable television. Also, Metra was created in the 1980s when railroads discontinued their passenger services to focus exclusively on freight operations.

[@Gravydog316]

big cities like Chicago & NYC were the last places to get cable just because of all the work involved

[@Joetalericoocontobelmont]

312nd like. The music is a nice touch.

[@efransophoto]

Thanks for this!

[@buzzlightyear1901]

Holiday road 🎶🎵🚗

[@SRLovesPandas1]

my city

[@PrincessMarz]

Me: 👁👄👁 Coolest thing I’ve ever seen!!!

[@Firewertyhn6817]

what a monument on 1:15

[@siemenstraffic]

It's Heald Square Monument. It depicts General George Washington and the two principal financiers of the American Revolution: Robert Morris and Haym Salomon.

[@Zo_1987]

Cool Music

[@Dave39359]

What year was this? Around 1985?

[@hypedidit8403]

45 Mph on the highway, mfs weren’t going anywhere anytime soon back then 😂😂😂

[@limityt1875]

I wish I was around in the 80’s. Instead, I war born in 2005

[@marticus1642]

No you don’t

[@brianglade848]

Damn

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

Never take your life for granted. Sure we have to deal with covid and climate change but the 80s were not rainbows and sunshine either. Chicago in particular was much more dangerous and lawless than today. You couldn't walk around Chicago at night back then without getting into trouble and there were a lot of rough parts of cities all over the country that are much nicer today. Never take what we have for granted because most of our ancestors didn't have shit

[@brianglade848]

The cocaine decade

[@jasperdilincoln2341]

Video should have been longer..lol

[@silas1414]

Muuuusic

[@Warrant_downboys1988]

What song?

[@malbrojay4740]

Where's Steve Urkel?

[@mikedougherty9773]

Enlisted '82 did not return till '05 what at diffetence

[@graythaprince]

Wheres the gunshots?

[@chicagopyramid4979]

Amazing

[@laxer123]

I was there...

[@111danish111]

0:38 is that Wacker drive eastbound ?

[@siemenstraffic]

Yes it is.. They are driving to the intersection of Wacker and Walbash at Heard Square.

[@MCMARMELSTEIN6474]

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[@markwonarmstrong1]

What's the name of this song

[@inherguts2472]

Darude sandstorm

[@marticus1642]

Treasure island by eb the pharaoh

[@brianglade848]

This song is called "My dad left for the island, the asshat"

[@snowbro540]

@Markwon's vision Single Goats Dream - Emily Shepard

[@SevenFootPelican]

Our streets were clean, our infrastructure was intact and not cracking/rusting...

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

lol this is downtown, the only part of chicago that was clean and nice back then. Most of chicago is much nicer these days.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

there's a video about Pilsen in 1980. watch that to see what the city really looked like

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

You have obviously never heard of Cabrini Green, Albert Einstein

[@c-man2nd739]

I think is around 1989

[@siemenstraffic]

Nope, it was in 1983.

[@Baddawg_313]

Ah yes, home of the Latin Counts. Bunch of nice people lol

[@hueso5071]

Lol. The 80s were reckless in Chicago.

[@HappyHermitt]

588 2300 Empire

[@LoveLoveHateHatexXx]

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