Chicago's Notorious Cabrini-Green Transformed

[@CarlCollinsTV]

Gentrification at its finest, but we (black people) brought this on ourselves. Out of control youth and adults who did nothing to help their community far outweighed the decent and honest black people who wanted a better life. As a kid in Chicago, I witnessed an unbelievable amount of violence and chaos. I can only hope enough people wake up and look to change for the better.

[@schwarzeraraberhengst2124]

well... these old blocks they demolished where somewhat inhumane...

[@mykedynomite]

Your people didn't bring drugs into their community, it was dropped in there. When you get a chance watch the Godfather, politicians and mobsters working together to ensure drugs are kept in those neighborhoods.

[@Rstecki76]

​@@schwarzeraraberhengst2124 well.....since you put it that way what else could they do......

[@chicagomikey6416]

Gentrification? How about they cleaned it up. Black people still live there. Now let's see how they take cate of it. There's alot to discuss into what brought all the poverty and destruction.

[@leegrey8039]

There is an eerieness to this whole video. The fact that so much was demolished and replaced, not just building but lives. The Dantrell Davis way is a slap in the face when you consider the mass gentrification. Why would these "new" residents learn who he was or care, as they are able to safely walk their kids to school or the park. Finally, Locust Ave. and that whole fenced off vacant area is like one of the apocalyptic movies, totally creepy as it is adjacent to sprawling new developments. I love my city, but this is classic "let's get rid of the "problem" make it glossy and "desirable " and we can forget the past."

[@nikkismith8447]

It was very nice of you to ride around and show us Cabrini "Now" through your lens. Kudos!

[@chicago4k542]

Kudos to you for watching! :)

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

Nikki smith: new subscriber

[@robertjohnson8651]

Thank you so much thank you so much I was born and raised in Chicago and I’m just gonna say wow!!!!!😢

[@JudyMenzel7]

I was a young mom with 2 little kids, who lived on Ashland near Irving. Every single day I got on my bicycle and rode to Clark Street, then to Rush street. I was a DJ, barkeep and cocktail waitress at a place called Moby Nick's for a couple of years. I remember going past Cabrini every afternoon and every early morning 3am. No one ever bothered me, but nowadays conside myself extremely lucky about that!

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

Exactly

[@gabrielwalker1318]

No you wasn't lucky.or maybe you was? But I use to live in the greens and we had different rules in those days. Most/ organizations/ gangs did not allow their members to do stupid stuff, that would bring undo heat to the neighborhood and other members!!!! especially my organization GD,s had many rules,of course not everyone follow the rules.but now the new generation don't follow no rules.well the rule is they are no rules..lbs .no matter what you hear,or what you think 🤔 it's no more organized gangs in Chicago... All the kids might Clam a gang.but it's a get a long gang😂 not a real organized gang. And it's no more drugs for people to sell,all the drugs come from the labs now.no money 💰 circulation.a kid will robb you for a phone now days,and kill you for it! Like they still playing grand thief auto😂💯😕

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

@@gabrielwalker1318 DAMN! 😳

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

@@gabrielwalker1318you right about that. chicago is a free for all these days

[@markhammer9975]

I was scared even driving down Ohio street accidentally.

[@michaelcampbell6326]

This was literally ASMR to me. Man just having you ride around the North side of Chicago on a sunny November day. I never got to see the high rise and mid rise buildings. There is just something oddly fascinating about Cabrini-Green. Rip Dantrell Davis!

[@southsidesaiyan8641]

What is ASMR?

[@RaheemCST]

autonomous sensory meridian response: a sensory phenomenon that occurs in response to low-volume audio stimuli, comprising a tingling sensation in the scalp, and sometimes including the neck or the back along the spine, along with a trancelike state of deep relaxation.

[@empathy369]

Same

[@Cyndimple]

That is a very big change of the Cabrini Green. That place took a lot of city blocks. If they didn’t have the Internet most people in this world would think those projects were still up there. The neighborhood looks pretty safe.

[@StanleyBurks]

Thank you for doing this. It’s almost like Cabrini never existed.

[@anthonycbrown1952]

Thank you for the tour. The impacts of removing the larger buildings are still being felt throughout the Chicagoland area. I remember the emotional state-of-mind of those who hated the projects as residents but at the same time knew no other world.

[@chicago4k542]

Chicagoland felt it, there wasn't another option Imo. I seen some of the areas some live now. Definitely alot nicer area with new housing. Local residence may not have liked it, but everything was put on the table for a path to a better life, that's for sure.

[@zackrusgrove9330]

All of Illinois felt it

[@macklifebizzle6392]

Literally

[@allikhaur]

This could and should have been done decades upon decades ago. All of the lives lives that mayhave flourished, childhoods, families saved, deaths avoided, traumatuzation of soooo many people.When a certain group wants to live in that area, it suddenly needs an overhaul. But when just one group lived there, nothing was done. Pathetic.

[@tanyasmith2173]

THIS

[@MindFitWithVick]

Exactly! 💯

[@squishiehunter693]

Its called gentrification. Its for white folks.

[@RachaForever1]

So why couldn’t blacks build their own neighborhoods or upkeep what was already built?

[@jane870doe2]

You are so right

[@PJBovio]

FASCINATING TOUR!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I pray Cabrini Green families weren't made homeless just to make this happen. The families who lived in Cabrini Green and never caused trouble deserved first pick for apartments in these new places.

[@kalesmonroe2556]

Why would anyone "deserve" anything? the people that bust their asses working are the ones that paid for all of this for people to live next to nothing. There is nothing fair about it. You work your ass off and have a good attitude, you have housing. And then you get to pay for housing for people who aren't working but continue to have kid after kid.

[@PJBovio]

@@kalesmonroe2556 It's not that simple.

[@genesjewel1315]

They scattered all the crime and violence to the south and west sides.

[@Max-wd6og]

They were

[@PJBovio]

​@@Max-wd6ogIt figures 😒

[@87alock]

Still amazes me how they had such a bad area so close to downtown for so long.

[@joelmunoz8571]

In the north side isn’t that something

[@warrencarter1555]

That property value was so low . Just low enough for the vultures to come swoop down and finish off the carcass. Now it’s so beautiful huh. What a game... I mean shame

[@jackcoolidge8123]

The idea of massive high-rise housing projects is a flawed concept. It will never work. These developers made the area productive again.

[@friendlyindianscammer2887]

@@jackcoolidge8123 it Could but not in most areas

[@drinkingpoolwater]

@@jackcoolidge8123 it did work for a long time. cabrini was nice for the first 10 or so years it was open. the problem is the housing authority never maintained the buildings or property correctly.

[@jackcoolidge8123]

@@drinkingpoolwater the problem wouldn’t have been fixed by maintaining the building. The maintenance stopped after the degradation increased. Why would the city be expected to maintain private residences that most citizens maintain for themselves. This was not a successful or sustainable solution to the problem

[@jackcoolidge8123]

@Chill Will if you think the developers are the problem, you should look at the thing that caused the infection in your analogy. Why not treat the symptoms when the problem isn’t going to be fixed. The real problem are the lack low income low skill jobs available. These people are the result of a changing economic landscape in the city.

[@BagOfSnacksPodcast]

872 N Cambridge was first home in CG. 862 N Sedgwick and 365 W Oak. Good and Bad times. Lots of dysfunction but people were close yet cut throat. We all CG CRAZY. Moved to East Side of Chicago after Demolition in 2011. Now in Texas. Loving it. Great video. Brought back memories.

[@jane870doe2]

862 N. Sedgwick was my home apt 210. It was really the best 8 years of my life. 85-93

[@belindam7304]

Interesting and sad at the same time. I del for the mums and kids who were trying to survive and have a better life Good way to share as it feels like your actually there.

[@Skyblue-mc2cw]

Thank you! It's amazing thing that I can watch Chicago from Russia!🤝😊

[@rasta_ital]

Never been to Chicago, but have heard about Cabrini Greene many years ago. We would do well to learn the lessons, especially here in Miami Florida and elsewhere. If we don't remember the past, how can we move forward?

[@DazeofWonder]

A row house here on Hudson Ave just N of Chicago was my home c. 1954-1957 'til moving West to Maywood. Thanks for memories.

[@allenbell3734]

i can't believe the difference and i can't believe you're on a bicycle riding with no hands 🙌 on the bars!

[@chicago4k542]

Must of seen my shadow lol. Hands free baby!!! Camera in one hand, and cup of coffee in the other lol

[@bozarts22]

Yep. Kept thinking how you did this on a bike! Wow! I'm totally impressed.❤

[@brucekrause2801]

I'm always impressed how the streets of Chicago are so clean, spotless, everywhere. Best architecture in America too.

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Very informative. I was not aware of how much area Cabrini-Green occupied. I always wonder what happened to the people who lived there that were not relocated. Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@merriem24]

My mom grew up there before it turned bad. Crazy how a few decades can alter a place.

[@stinkmeaner3016]

A few decades + crack.

[@ThatCarGuy1983]

Crazy how blacks can "Alter" a place too.. 😐

[@unknown-ci9ho]

@@ThatCarGuy1983 bro wat

[@kalesmonroe2556]

A few shitty people alter it. Unfortunately it doesn't take many crap ass people to ruin a place....but then what do you expect really? Free housing is bound to have issues no matter what.

[@TheRuggedAzzMan]

Niggas destroy everything they come into contact with

[@denisebrown2315]

Thank you so much because of Cabrini Green housing projects 502 W. Oak Street. Jennifer Street School and Richard E Byrd, street street, this is where I came from. It doesn't define who I am. I am a writer and poet Denise Brown Mistress of Horror Writer and Poet.

[@debbyfronke3227]

Wow, what a great film to view from a bike ride,I always heard such bad stuff about Cabrini, living on the nw side of Chicago, it seems so nice and peaceful now, glad it didn’t just remain vacant lots! I pray that this neighborhood stays this way, so families can be safe, and Chicago can gain a more positive viewpoint,,great job and thank you!

[@melvintate8186]

Live there for 19 years it something else living there believe me it was!!

[@denisebrown2315]

Thank you for this I grew up in Cabrini Green housing projects in the 1960 1nd 1970s. Where is 502 W. Oak street?

[@randomboyfrom2004]

type it in on google maps

[@Mrs.FleetOwner]

I was born and raised in Chicago. My parents moved away when we were teenagers. And we went home every year for vacation or when school was out to visit other relatives and grandparents. This documentary was true and very real in some aspects of Chicago, but it doesn't speak for the entire city. Most ppl think the whole city is of nothing but violence, since that's all they hear about or see in the news across the nation, but its not on every side of town. If the whole city was like that, then why would ppl that have money continue to live there? Why would Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, to name a few live there. Its not all of Chicago. Most of those ppl saw life different and not thinking of their future. Most of them didn't want to do anything different to better themselves as if that was gonna last forever. Im so Thankful we didn't live there or like that. My parents gave us a chance by giving us a better environment to thrive. So whoever watches this dont think that's the whole city. Chicago is a great city, beautiful place.

[@reginaldrichmond9485]

Chicago have good food I love the popcorn.

[@charreed8727]

Michael Jordan no longer lives in Chicago. He has a mansion in Highland Park that has been for sale FOR EVER. He lives in Jupiter FL, NC.. Oprah Winfrey lives in Montecito, California.

[@kellynorvell5714]

Sincere prayers that the grounds were blessed before they started to construct the new buildings.

[@laterrahill595]

I walked through the field of Larrabee and division to interview at Skinner school maybe a year after it was demolished and felt a strange, Erie feeling as if someone was watching me or following me. …best way I could describe it. But definitely strange

[@witchcraftspellcaster3204]

Looks 100x better than it did in the 80s and 90s

[@DrLoverLover]

Yes only rich people

[@catchison8671]

😢🙏🏼💙💙 In memory of Dantrell Davis… May God rest his soul.. may God Bless his family…🙏🏼❤️

[@suavelleadams9072]

The Cabrini Green Housing Projects would have given any Neighborhood in Los Angeles a Run for their Money as far as the Most Dangerous Community to Reside in !

[@chicago4k542]

Just curious, what neighborhood in LA?

[@suavelleadams9072]

@@chicago4k542 Any of the Neighborhoods in Los Angeles just one or Two of these Buildings alone would send ShockWaves throughout California ! It's a very Sad thing that they didn't shoot any movies or many Music Videos 🎶 🎶🎶🎶 inside or any where near these Chicago Public Housing Buildings because these buildings were the absolute True definition of What a Ghetto is really like ! It took a Jamaaican to Convince me that Cabrini Green was a Whole lot more Civil than the Projects orb Shainty Towns in his country and I found it hard to Believe until I had watched a Real Live documentary about them Places !

[@jasonbrooks5493]

@@chicago4k542 Jordan downs in Watts

[@crystalbrame7886]

Chicago 4K No Shade But Cabrini Had Some Of The Best Snippers !! Hands Down!! It Once Said They Could Pick A Flea Off A Fly Azz!! 🤷🏽‍♀️😂

[@AshSha248]

@@suavelleadams9072 They did shoot movies there. The original and most recent Candyman movies were shot there for example. Many others too.

[@GQguy24]

14:14 respect for you my man for actually riding down that part of Cambridge while holding what I assume is a pretty expensive camera. I lived the next block over at Larrabee and Crosby for 5 years. Just moved up to the burbs 3 months ago. The police were ALWAYS over there on Cambridge. And there were MANY nights where I heard gunshots coming from over there.

[@dinosbaby2654]

Thank you so much for this.. I am so drawn to the history of CG... Wanted an update.. 🙂

[@MPS2627]

This video brought tears to my eyes especially the end....😢😢😢

[@TheAeroAvatar]

It's amazing to see how far this area has come since demolishing the old development. And hopefully those unoccupied rowhouses will soon be a thing of the past as well. Amazing that it hasn't been that long since this transformation began, last time I was in Chicago was 2007 and I don't think I passed through whatever was left of the old site. I only hope for good things for those who live in the new Cabrini-Green area.

[@goran2009]

Im watching 2021 Candyman and its awesome that old neighbourhood still exists!

[@laterrahill595]

I wish I could have seen more on Division and Halsted side but this was still good. Thanks 🙏🏽 😊

[@Toohonest26]

Good times sitcom was based on these

[@joannemadden7449]

If I'm not mistaken wasn't that the name of the housing projects on "Candyman"

[@lophersson]

Hello! I am a Spanish man, I have always liked Chicago, its history, the lifestyle, its culture, I want to continue learning about this wonderful city, I accept conversations and friendship with you. thank you!

[@Chiara-ez5hw]

It looks Beautiful ❤️ clean and safe like a breath of fresh air good butterfly effect

[@moonraker30]

It does look completely different from when I was growing up in Chicago during the 1980s-90s, I didn’t want people to be priced out, but after Dantrell Davis, I couldn’t look at Cabrini Green in the same way ever again

[@chicago4k542]

It was a time for a change! Cabrini Greens was rough in that era. I was hangnout there talking to some residents when I did this video. Some of them actually still live there.

[@jackman435]

Although I grew up during my younger years in the Cabrini Green housing projects! I could never live in this newly renovated Cabrini because Cabrini Green sits on a vortex of very negative energy. For over a century & a half Cabrini has been a place of suffering & death... The area where Cabrini resides is haunted and no one should be living there unless the area has been exorcised of evil spirits?

[@ThatCarGuy1983]

Shut up jack.. 😒

[@SupernovaX72]

I just posted wondering if it was haunted and then I saw this comment. I totally believe it is.

[@mashawnmcdaniel9938]

So true I couldn’t live there either

[@doreathasmithalbright7476]

I REMEMBER A LOVELY COLLEGE CLASSMATE THAT LIVE THERE. WHEN YOU WENT IN YOU DID NOT COME BACK AND DID NOT ANSWER THE DOOR . SO WONDERFUL NOW. PROGRESS , LOVE IT.

[@angelabell8725]

It's Beautiful. Just Beautiful.I love the buildings.

[@bozarts22]

Just watched after seeing the new film Cabrini. Brought back memories of living in Chicago and hearing about all the crime and drugs at both C-G locations. (White kid that grew up in the suburbs!) Your tour gave me an update. Those tall buildings on the South side just made me so sad as I thought of the people living in those conditions- just horrible! Glad those were demolished. Mother Cabrini would be turning in her grave knowing what happened to the area. Glad to see it now regentrified for the most part, but looks like work is still continuing. Thank you for putting this up. Good luck doing more Chicago neighborhood tours!❤

[@shemeshaduncan3325]

Wow...its shocking to see that has been built where Cabrini Green once stood

[@hatednyc]

Imagine the people who come home from prison after 20 years and seeing this instead of the monstrous towers of death that stood there before. It’s like a different world.

[@DrLoverLover]

They dont go there now.

[@jakhaiamari4930]

More like 40 years

[@Ace-uc5cj]

Is this actually where Cabrini Green was? Looks amazing, how much did it cost to revamp?

[@QthAgR8]

300$😃😀

[@justdrive5327]

Chicago has a lot of gold. It's where are lake is. That water will be very valuable in two three decades as the west runs dry and the east coast floods

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

@catherine coman yep 😁👍 New memories indeed!

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

@catherine coman new subscriber

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

I'm so glad that Cabrini green is no longer around. I suffered 7years of my life in that hellhole. Good riddance.

[@legacy4658]

you mind sharing some stories?

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

@@legacy4658 sure. I was born on June 30 1987, I was raised by my alcoholic aunt, and when I turned 8 I was taken away by DCFS because my life was in danger from living in Cabrini green. I was finally adopted in 1995, 16 years later Cabrini green housing projects was DEMOLISHED!

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

@@legacy4658 first Subscriber

[@bernardtheaubreycoxandcoolgame]

@@kurtlamprecht93 thanks 👍. Happy to tell it

[@Therealmoseslupai]

I feel you dawg.

[@LisaLife3160]

I'm assuming this was filmed on the weekend. It's odd that not many people are walking around.

[@paulpassage4646]

Very nice and instructif video. Thank you so much.

[@gregory46236]

Late 80s and early 90s my friends and I would drive to west division to party at Mother's bar. We knew not to drive a couple of miles further west on division. It was scary as fk.

[@RahYisrael99]

The spirit of death and despair still lingers here.

[@stylzeswift9705]

You must evolve... Or get left behind...

[@bilbo2shire]

Not being computer literate and a 68y/o one hundred percent disabled Veteran, I wish I knew how to post my Interview about my Audio/Print Book Willie Means Well (But It Don't Work Out Sometimes)-The Meal, Featuring My letter To The Editor and Other Editorials! I would encourage any "Now-A-Day Ganster to read my Poem "Death Walks The Cabrini," the tale of a double killing on a Tuesday Evening that began a Week of killings that also included a young baby. GOD Is Good, my Junior and Senior Years of High School I lived in those Projects and caught the Bus and the El daily and survived being shot at so often It had to be Spiritual Intervention that brought Mom and Us through those turbulent times. GOD BLESS!!!!

[@user-lc8ip7tw4w]

Just watched @9:30pm on 10/18/24 From the Detroit but live in Okc. Just watched WERE GROWN NOW on Netflix movie. ❤️❤️❤️❤️Thanks for sharing this.

[@lubabe9969]

Thanks for the tour. I can't help but wonder what happened to the residents who knew no other way of life but poverty, I get the criminals destroyed the project but, you know their were honest hard working families that couldn't afford anything else. I know it needed to come down. Another video explained their was replacement housing at a higher cost and some housing vouchers.

[@chicago4k542]

All those residents were placed at locations across the city and suburbs. Some live in the new development that replaced the notorious Cabrini Green that everyone knows of.

[@lubabe9969]

@@chicago4k542 I see. Thank you for responding.

[@Supreme36074]

@@lubabe9969 yes I believe around 70 families filled the 214 units built so, the rest were spread throughout the city b& suburbs & it was noticed as time went on.

[@Supreme36074]

@@kurtlamprecht93 you couldn’t understand with the obvious typo I think it’s you who’s needs to learn to speak English 😅 goofy

[@peggypasson8794]

Something had needed to be done about the crime way before it got that bad . An the upkeep . Many lived there who really needed a home .so sad .we had a apartment building in our town that got taken over by crime .the FBI came in an cleaned house . An sold the apartment building .

[@ralphbartel7887]

I used to live in Chicago not very far from the Cabrini, and now I'm in Toronto 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇲

[@stylzeswift9705]

Nice scenes...you can actually see the beautiful skyline in the back.... This was long overdue...

[@miss.phyllisreneefoster9547]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SHOWING I HOPE MY APARTMENT COMES SOON IT'S IN PARKSIDE APARTMENTS AND THE XAVIER APARTMENTS OR THE RIVER NORG POINT 845 N KINGSBURY ST APARTMENTS, I HOPE ONE OF OR ALL COME AVAILABLE FOR ME IT WHERE I WANT TO MOVE TO THANK YOU I VERY MUCH ENJOYED THIS VIDEO, HOPE TO SEE MORE, THANK YOU.

[@RatTerminator]

Ty mayor Daly!!😊

[@LatoyaLbqueenL114]

Good times filming location

[@markhammer9975]

Really a trip seeing this. I worked at Jewel Osco for my first job.

[@gerardotosca9126]

HERMOSA CIUDAD. I LOVE CHIGAGO. HERMOSO.

[@chicago4k542]

hermosa ciudad con hermosas mujeres :)

[@marchmadness76]

The new Candyman movie brought me here.

[@dubuqueareabaseballpodcast1726]

Me too.

[@melayniec.5613]

Me also

[@QUICKSILVER8412]

Wow

[@hiphopgamer7604]

Same but I already been already about but I wanna look back

[@savagewest2759]

i grew up near there during that time.

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

Today would mark dantrell's 37th birthday

[@anamaria91106]

what happened to all the families who lived in Cabrini?

[@chicago4k542]

They scattered the families around the Chicago area and burbs. Some came back living in the new condos only after meeting certain requirements.

[@CapnMic]

@@chicago4k542 In the jargon of the day ... such projects were referred to as "scattered site housing" .. a concept that exists still to this day. The idea was to dilute, not concentrate, economically disadvantaged peoples and provide a safer environment for them to live .. it remains one of the most controversial social science initiatives ever tested, and because of its' many failures it has now become a model of "what not to do" .. and led to the de-construction of many similar programs in other large cities. Real estate developers love some cities more than others .. such can not be said for the Pruitt-Igoe complex in St Louis which today has seen absolutely little to no redevelopment - and saw similar problems with crime, housing-authority mismanagment, and a parade of politicians vowing improvement .. none of whch worked. Local churches emerged as the real heros - providing what the government would not provide. Every agency involved became a chapter of inefficiency, corruption, and misuse of funding .. poor political leadership and distrust of police (for good reasons) etc .... and good people suffered at the hands of criminals - many of such projects were designed to have a transitory population, not permanent residency .. a method of moving the unemployed to jobs and better housing opportunities .. there were minimal successes, but mostly Capri-Green is remembered for what never to do again in the future.

[@stevenacken6444]

Wow. I remember being younger with friends and wouldn’t even think about driving near there.

[@zacharyscott2250]

Google mapping this area on street view is insane. The images go back to like 2007. It is crazy how much things have changed. Couldn't imagine seeing it in 1980.

[@sofo3308]

Thank you very good info

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

Your life too short you are remembered always forever a young boy who was coming to school nearly for 3 decades.

[@SS-hb8cq]

would have been good to have before and after clips

[@chicago4k542]

Your right, I should've put more before clips. Next time! 👍

[@blast4me754]

@@chicago4k542 The ending credits of the show Good Times would be nice.

[@ACGreyhound04]

This reminds me of the neighborhood in Chelsea, MA where I used to work. It used to be a scary, run-down ghetto, until the buildings were rebuilt or renovated. I worked in a brand new state government office building on the site of a former high rise housing project.

[@Michaelkrm]

Do you support that kind of renovation?

[@DrLoverLover]

its called gentrification

[@user-fq4jo7tw5k]

WHY ARE THE BASKETS REMOVED FROM THE HOOPS???

[@deniselongs3622]

me and one of my sisters went to Schiller school right across the building , and my other siblings went to Cooley high

[@yolandayb1]

Didn’t they demolish Cooley and built Near North High School?

[@kevincampbell4708]

@chicago 4K I’m going visit Chicago in July ( hopefully if COVID gets it better). What are some nice spots outside of downtown?

[@chicago4k542]

Wrigleyville around Wrigley Field(Chicago Cubs) is built up pretty nice. Thet have alot of new restaurants to eat at, shop, or have few cocktails and can catch a baseball game at for a cheap price right before the game through stubhub.com. I just hope next summer is not going to be like it was this past summer with this Covid at full swing.

[@andreclark2472]

I like riding the bike trail on Lake Shore Drive. I like starting from the south side around 55th street / Hyde Park and working my way north around the Lincoln Park area. The southside portion of the trail is safe.

[@chicago4k542]

@@andreclark2472 Thats a nice ride. Southside lakefront trail is really nice.

[@stitch6157]

Wicker Park is a world class walkable neighborhood with historic architecture, restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping and other amenities. Fulton Market is like NY's Meatpacking District I suppose. It has an industrial warehouse aesthetic but is home to corporate headquarters, boutique hotels, Michelin-Starred restaurants, etc. Pilsen has a lot of public art and trendy breweries, gatro-pubs, etc. Hyde Park is another tier one neighborhood that has amazing architecture, the University of Chicago campus, Museum of Science and Industry, parks, shopping, dining etc. Lincoln Park is filled with attractions, Lincoln Square is beautiful and Uptown has a lot of culture and historic building stock. Asia on Argyle, Little India, theaters, bars, and Montrose Harbor are all within close proximity.

[@MR-ml2po]

Lincoln Park, Lakeview (Lakeview East, Wrigleyville, Boys Town, Southport, etc), Fulton Market/West Loop, Andersonville, Lincoln Square, Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village, Hyde Park, Pilsen, Bridgeport, Logan Square, Uptown (Argyle area for example which is Little Vietnam), Roscoe Village, Chinatown, Devon St (Little India/Pakistan), etc. Also Little Village, 26th St, is great. Chicago has a massive Mexican population and this is the center. Pilsen is nearby with a lot of art, murals, etc too with a big Mexicam population. A lot of tourists pick Pilsen because it's it's bit safer right now but mostly would be fine. A lot of areas to choose from outside of downtown. Just depends on what you want.

[@TomTobin67]

Back in the late 90s, I lived in Rockwell Gardens (Western and Van Buren) and I moved out to Las Vegas and returned 10 years later only to see it very gentrified. St Stephen's was still there but the gun violence was toned down a bit. When I lived there, every single person;man,woman or child (even babies) could be the next victim of random shooting. They say that bullets don't have a name on them but they do. The shooters name. I never used a gun on a person unless it was in the military. I hope I never have to do so.

[@VeronicaDavis-n5z]

I agreed whole-heartily.Too much pain and suffering

[@mohammedibrahimsiddiqui4711]

Hi Are you filming on cycle great

[@chicago4k542]

I like using the bike because I can cover alot of ground.

[@soniasg8639]

Government needs to knock down every old dangerous projects and rebuilt.

[@insurrectionbbq]

In 1996 when I was 16, I got lost and ended up in Cabrini. Some dude asked me if I would give him my truck.😂😂😂 Luckily I was from Kankakee and pulled a blade on him and he ran off.

[@fiorellox780]

Where are the people?? All those new buildings and you didn't see one family outside or any kids playing. Nothing, no life. China has plenty of new high-rises and wonderful condos and gated areas....but nobody lives in them! The properties are all vacant. Greed by real estate investors all built with the help of the Government. And what happened to all the people that once lived in Cabrini Green....where did they go? Not here! Not a fan of the great "Purge " of Blacks from one area just to rebuild and bring in another set of people . CHA let it get as bad as it got @ the Green & Robert Taylor in order for the Fed to come in and take it over...and the rest is History! This is what you got....how was the original longtime residents lives improved by this gentrification? The same greed here...all these properties are vacant or under construction. The old buildings have yet to be torn down. Gentrification never helps the people that suffered the worst, nor will they be allowed to benefit the new best.

[@Alphabetizeist]

No one is owed anything. We all have to get up and earn it.

[@justdrive5327]

When its cold we hibernate plus people here have school and jobs to go. We are night owls so Chicago gets really busy and crowded in the evening

[@yep2088]

@@Alphabetizeist exactly!

[@savagewest2759]

wow what a change

[@zuglymonster]

So many memories.

[@Aware_Bear]

I feel like a great many people want to blame the black people, instead of the system that failed these people...

[@UzumakiNaruto_]

I feel like a great many people want to blame 'the system' rather than blaming black people who caused all these problems and having them take responsibility for their own failures. I don't think its a coincidence that wherever there's a large population of black people living in an area, that place almost always becomes more violent, dangerous and criminal.

[@FavoriteBabyMomma]

@@UzumakiNaruto_Well the “BLACKS” don’t have the resources to get massive quantities of drugs and crates of assault rifles that created the problem in the first place, like WTF do you expect to happen, a Baptism ???🙄

[@paulboyle5659]

It looks completely different now than in the 80/90s, to be honest, it looked worse than west Belfast during the troubles of Northern Ireland where my family grew up. Good video thanks for posting. =)

[@chicago4k542]

Thanks for watching! 👍❤️

[@r.ummimodeste9146]

Where did all the residents go?

[@yolandayb1]

Far South Side and South Suburbs such as Harvey, Dolton, and Hazelcrest

[@denisebrown2315]

Please show pictures of old with new

[@lukelund4854]

That don't look like no free/affordable housing to me

[@chicago4k542]

There's some new affordable housing units still runned by CHA there.

[@coreywilson4753]

wow looks great

[@chigal0926]

To think, 35 years ago this area was a ghetto. As a native of Chicago I remember little Dantrell’s senseless murder. Good riddance to Cabrini-Green; they were horrible.

[@chicago4k542]

Yeah, I think the news about Dantrell murder was heard from far away places. Alot of people not from Chicago know about Cabrini Green for how notorious it was.

[@teetot5276]

Also poor girl x that was brutally raped by that maniac.

[@southsidesaiyan8641]

@@UR_Right24 Exactly, in 2005 it was still horrible over there.

[@mssocial2093]

@Tack Draas Right!! I was like, what is this dude even talking about? 😒🙄

[@abluejayturnedblack7642]

Are the row house next to be demolish ?

[@MauriceRivers415]

The story of Cabrini-Green, is the story of public housing all over the USA. When you put an overwhelming percentage of poor/low-income people in public housing (especially underserved communities of Black, Latino, AAPI and Native American residents), don't do any regular maintenance/upgrades, and allow the properties to fall into squalor and disrepair, you create an environment that breeds anarchy, lawlessness, illegal activities and entrenched poverty. Mix that with the cocaine/crack epidemic of the 80's and 90's, and you have a stewing crock-pot of residents doing whatever they can to survive. Public housing authorities all across the USA are almost always embroiled in scandals like this, because there's no profit in it: they have no incentive to give the most vulnerable citizens a decent a safe place to call home, because their mindset is that a tenant receiving government assistance/Section-8 vouchers, will not appreciate nice things the way a market-rate tenant will (often true, sadly). The fact that people are still being allowed to live in these surviving row houses, crumbling and rotting as they are, is a testament to this.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

Maurice Rivers -- CORRECT. | Mayor-for-Life R.J. Daley wanted the Blacks to live that way; none of that misery was accidental.

[@peggypasson8794]

I do not agree with that .I've been in many wealthy homes that take care of nothing .I'm not sure it has to do with being on section 8 .some people in are clean an some are not one but clean, but they're yard is perfect

[@srfoy6493]

Hopefully, what is left will not turn into the same thing the city just demolished, It seems that whoever had the idea to put so many underprivileged people in a small area should have never been in charge, I hope they have found better solutions.

[@SupernovaX72]

I wonder if the area is haunted

[@NewEyes25]

Thank you for 🇨🇦

[@littlemissmuffet8607]

I got my drivers license in 96... I was taught if I ever had to drive down division, to NOT stop at the stop signs near Cabrini...

[@chicago4k542]

Lol. I remember those stop signs.

[@chicago4k542]

Alot of tourist would take Division after coming off the Kennedy to get to downtown (mag-mile). Not only was it dangerous, but shameful for the city, because Cabrini was the first place they'll see, and then having to stop at those stop signs.

[@littlemissmuffet8607]

@@chicago4k542 I was in the suburbs just trying to get into mothers, alumni, the Leg room lol what was that strip of bars called back then?

[@chicago4k542]

@@littlemissmuffet8607 Funny u say that because I was tryn to get in those bars on that little strip before I hit 21 and there after. I always called it Rush Street. It's part of the Rush Street bars that's in the Gold Coast.

[@chicago773williams5]

Karen’s relax

[@myfriendscallmelee]

Why? You think the mailman was safe?

[@danski9904]

I remember driving thru on accident back in 1988 and a bunch of gang bangers starting chasing down our car and throwing bottles at it. We drove out so fast and blew the red light just to get out of there fast.

[@Donnie75]

Has the violence and gang activity decreased in that particular area?

[@behrens97]

Man that is a far cry from the neighborhood in the 80’s movie Candyman

[@JuanAlvarez-vr2fc]

Can I still buy rock there?

[@aaronwilkinson8963]

There's no where in America you can't buy rock