I DROVE AROUND CHICAGO'S GANG, AND DRUG INFESTED HOODS

[@lep8622]

Don’t Ever purchase a house 🏠 in the Winter ❄️ time in Chicago..You might want a refund when the neighborhood pops out in the summer.

[@jbljbl203]

lmao🤣

[@mrdurden7478]

That’s cold!!!!! Daaaaayuuuum

[@bryantrobinson7597]

Some neighborhoods in Chicago are quiet. Everybody isn't "popping out."

[@lep8622]

@ that’s my point you can’t tell in the winter time .

[@bryantrobinson7597]

@lep8622 I mean, some neighborhoods in Chicago are quiet throughout the year.

[@starlettsmith8087]

My city is beautiful but it’s so dangerous. It’s not a run down city. It’s the people who living here that makes it bad. The politicians, the gangs, & etc… the people here is different, more cold hearted, not too friendly. It’s like a gift & a curse here. It’s a fun city, just gotta move around right

[@Cali313Dave]

😂 man Chicago just got a lot of ppl some cities have gang culture but it’s really the music sending ppl off to hell

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

​@@Cali313Dave Chicago been this way forever without the music.

[@chrissy629]

Everywhere is dangerous

[@starlettsmith8087]

@@chrissy629 duhhh but Chicago is different & I’ve been to a lot of cites & their hoods, it’s not like Chicago at all

[@starlettsmith8087]

@@Cali313Dave u been to Chicago?

[@MailmanNick]

Chicago hoods aren't bad looking, just a lot of violence.

[@PandaMoolin]

go 2 the projects... everybody wants the corner. well if you stand out there. bam!

[@M.Đ-z4u]

When crime is high, it doesn't matter how it looks

[@PandaMoolin]

@@MarcIsTheAnswer what about ice/glass factories? the breaking bad types... the secret is those labs are in upper class areas..

[@TheChicagoJunkie]

Nah there's some blocks on the west side that look crazy. The residentials mostly, main streets like this get money put into them.

[@applejuice5635]

@@TheChicagoJunkie Yeah, the West Side has the worst blight, especially North Lawndale.

Certainly doesn’t have the hopelessness and desolation of parts of Detroit.

[@hittingreens5646]

dude wasn't anywhere bad...that's like a drive to the airport

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

it's getting there

[@28gs28gs]

Detroits crazy It feels like a horror movie

[@davidw7]

@@hittingreens5646 No this was part of the notorious hoods. Might have included O block with them low-rise projects near the end also.

[@victoryredcolorado]

@@hittingreens5646 🎯

[@hunterjuly6275]

My Grandfather was a Chicago cop back in the 1950s.

[@s.o.b_max8592]

ok

[@SamIam-dx8nl]

keep going...

[@69eddieD]

You keep driving past the hot spot, that's why they're yelling at you. They want to sell you dope.

[@lario1030]

💯💯💪🏾

[@brandonbushey7012]

Love Charlie’s videos. I visited Chicago in late august with a group of friends for a college retreat, went to the Metallica concert. Stayed on west maypole Ave. Not sure the degree of danger there, seemed hood adjacent, but gentrified. Women would run off the L if it was late at night and they were alone though. Great city and great experience overall.

[@royalsaddler]

It depends on where you stayed on Maypole. A quick look at Google Maps shows some of it is in Garfield Park, one of the worst areas in the city, but go further east and it's likely not as bad.

[@brandonbushey7012]

2645 w maypole to be exact. Right near the California station.

[@Imissyoulou]

@@brandonbushey7012 My family lived on Maypole in 30's (1901 W. Maypole.) In the forties they stayed at 2656 W. Maypole. The large building on your side of the street was a home for unwed mothers, during the 40's and 50's. I know the area WELL.

[@jbljbl203]

@@brandonbushey7012 lucky bastard lol

[@Girtbyfools]

Looks quite nice , especially with the fresh snow. I'm sitting in central Australia boiling hot in the middle of summer currently. Dreaming of snow ❄️😂

[@chrisbrown-jw4ce]

I dont think you would want to live in the area this video footage is from be thankful you live in a peaceful country, why dont you move out of central australia if its too hot.

[@davidw7]

@@chrisbrown-jw4ce Most live where they can afford and their vices also determine aspects of their life, mistakes and job status along with a criminal record cuts one's ability to be hired in so many places. Coastal Australia and suburbs as that is where its larger population is is very pricey overall. Say move has to be affordable to them as a key.

[@Imissyoulou]

Come on to Chicago.

[@soniasg8639]

No wonder homeless people come to California because of the cold weather elsewhere.

[@lizardguy4236]

People are always talking about how bad homelessness is in California cities, and it is bad, but the real problem is that these cities don’t provide adequate shelter to their homeless population. L.A. is fine with letting people live on the street because they don’t have to deal with the reality of homeless people freezing to death in the winter.

[@SoSikWitIt]

u think homeless people from nebraska just hop in there car and go to cali and set up tent to get nothing from it??

[@OwenLoney]

Damn scary street tour of the Chicago hoods, full of shady characters, gangs, drug deals. No-go areas !

[@Cleveland_Chic_885]

The “Hood” in Chicago looks a lot better then East Cleveland (a suburb of the CLE)I’m from Cleveland But EC looks like a war zone The South and West Side of the Chi look nice in Comparison Good Video Charlie Be Safe Much ❤

[@reenujose3965]

Yea but looks are deceiving. For many years Chicago has been the murder capital of this country, and in homicide rates we still are the highest

[@reenujose3965]

Also this neighborhood he in isn’t that bad compare to king drive englewood or west Garfield park, and north lawndale

[@HamhocksUnlimited]

Ahh yes, Cleveland, home of the Steamers, scrum diddly umptious 😋😋

[@toxicgracie3772]

​​@@moscasucio1686 That's a REALLY good point!! I will add that most Older East Cleveland houses/apartments were fire walled as well. But not nearly as many as Chicago

[@HamhocksUnlimited]

​@@toxicgracie3772I was going to get a hat to support Cleveland, you know, the Cleavland Steamers? What kind of picture do you think o should have on it?

[@stevewillloseit7974]

So much good food in that city from Chicken to fish, to Italian Beefs and Pizza, and Mexican

[@brianmorger2174]

Charlie, the bravest man on KZbin.

[@saonedixon5476]

Looks gloomy up there. I drive trucks and in the winter months the Midwest has that overcast look to it. Down here in the south where i live its sunny during the winter months but we get overcast skies from time to time 🌞😎

[@davidw7]

Charlie boi likes dreary days. It adds to effect. If a block of main streets has most homes intact and looking fine.... that block is a very short clip. Half to most of the nation gets real winters. Few parts of the nation are without issues with weather, dry and extra-hot much of the year, hot and humid, more than their share of storms, flood events etc. Still seems most see real winters as the worst scourge as AC for home and to car, to work, to strip mall and get fragile for real cold. Most do acclimate thru seasonal changes and surely you would not all to move by you......

[@tamiaadams8049]

It’s several months of gloomy skies 😭 🤣

[@davidw7]

@@saonedixon5476 really... ya'all gunna say dis.... da city ... in that.... bless your heart.

[@cathyc9596]

It’s very gloomy up here during the winter.

[@heystarfish100]

In Chicagoland when it is gloomy the air is warm. When the skies are clear, look out because you are going to freeze. 😂

[@starlettsmith8087]

Should drive around downtown & down lakeshore drive to show the people our skyline

[@MiSunDerStOOd_1]

Thanks to Chicago Fire & Chicago P.D tv show we can’t get enough 😅

[@davidw7]

Nice is not Charlie bois game and bad gets far more video views that pay.

[@TheOneandOnlyD-R-E]

This is so dumb. I've sat in project parking lots and on those streets alone for hours waiting for my dealer. Nothing ever happened, not even close. Act right and you won't have a problem.

[@frankwoods4532]

Thank you Charlie.

[@teejay9427]

That word hood is just a word as it relates to Chicago. Most of these neighborhoods look decent AF....

[@Bubba-Ho]

Lots of investment in Chicago over the last few years. Store fronts and new houses/construction all over the place. Taxes high as hell too!

[@davidw7]

Since the 90s, Chicago got pro-active in clearing out the worst blight as you see a lot here of empty lots and stand-alone homes where once that was more filled with homes. It has superior trash pick-up and is a city 90% of its streets have a utilitarian alley behind them for the trash bins and lined with garages and where most if its power-lines and poles are. It is a city of setbacks for housing for green-space and trees. Outside of winter.... even its hoods get street sweeper cleanings at least twice a month and main arteries more. Also it is not as intense a littering city. Why its core and good neighborhoods get a looking darn clean with uniform sidewalks look. Far less row-housing as in the East on narrow streets. These southside hoods tended to have even wider streets as they were far more affluent originally and once severe white-flight took wealth and gov redlining told banks it was not to get its FHA and GI loans. We created more our hoods than not.

[@Ditty0014]

Wait until it gets hot 😂😂😂😂😂

[@SoSikWitIt]

well just like how LA was the worst hood in the 80s-90s it was super clean and brand new looking but dangerous in the bad parts

[@EricGoldstein-m6g]

Thanks for the drive it was cool. Love Chicago.

[@DollaB65]

You went from Halsted to Madison real quick🤣🤣🤣

[@GeorgePetrou-vz4gy]

By US standards, these Chicago hoods are not too bad.

[@Porty900]

also by us standards, no city in the usa has nearly the number of murders and shootings, not even within a 1,500 range of shootings

[@misterphillipw]

Are you joking??

[@SoSikWitIt]

@@misterphillipw whats bad about it i didnt see no graffiti no trash no burnt up decaying buildings so whats the problem?

[@misterphillipw]

@@SoSikWitIt Yes...the south and west side are a fucking paradise...kind of like Haiti without the heat.

[@SoSikWitIt]

@ Tell me from this video what did you see that made it bad because i seen nothing from this video

[@Bubba-Ho]

03:28 Madison and Pulaski, people out there trying to sell their mix tapes. You can say what you want about Lightfoot and Johnson, but they did get banks and government to invest in Chicago. Lots of new store fronts and construction happening....on top the largest property tax hikes in history. Thanks for the upload.

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

Selling mix tapes? Yeah, sure.

[@Uenostation54]

@@TheOldTapeArchive that's a real thing bro

[@69eddieD]

I'm gonna drive down there and tell the cops I came to buy some mix tapes out of the alley. Let's see how that goes.

[@Galidorquest]

@@Uenostation54 Nah, nobody sells mixtapes or bootlegs on the street anymore... 😅

[@thefanridrshow1967]

Love your videos. I look for new ones you upload,

[@chrisbrown-jw4ce]

these areas are in every US city and are a hangover from red lining racist policy, areas of under investment, poor schools and crime.

[@CarlYork-wi7hl]

Exactly 💯

[@SoSikWitIt]

redlining is good guess what happens when you stop redlining you get moved out cause your property taxes cost more then whats the house cost and that rent went from 800 to 2k Chicago is the last big city that has redlining still in affect no gentrification in the south or west side just blacks and browns do you want to change that?? im sure you do

[@chrisbrown-jw4ce]

@@SoSikWitIt I think you can see the effects of red lining in many US cities, I get what you mean about gentrification I just watched a program on Portland Oregon where like you say home prices went way up, though it does not seem to be the case in other US cities Baltimore clearly has major problems and it is in areas that were formely red lined. I understand places with high crime are unlikely to have whites moving in there on mass like in Portland, places like Chicago and New York are probably a bit different to other cities as they have had high demand compared to other cities like St Louis, Dayton Ohio, Cleveland, those cities all show the effects of segregation and home prices remain cheap in bad areas.

[@SoSikWitIt]

@@chrisbrown-jw4ce For baltimore city the east and west side always been blacks and the city has nothing to offer its too abandonded and dead its not a desirble city just like detroit its to spread out suburban area nothing to do On other hand chicago is the most red lined city rn for example when you go on westside the neighboorhood austin sits right next to oak lawn. Austin is all black and urban with lots of crime but as soon as you go under the bridge to oak lawn its like a whole different world.The west and southside of chicago is cheap for a reason cause blacks and brown live there and its crime.There is no desire for a white person to want to move into 1 of those neighboorhoods when there is the neighboorhoods up north and outskirts in cookcounty

[@kylephillip6433]

What if someone drove around dressed like a ghost waving at everyone 😂

[@blast4me754]

The HipHop community is so destructive you couldn't open a business in these communities even if you wanted to.

[@SoSikWitIt]

chicago is full of black and brown buisnesses cause guess who lives there they do and they own it

[@PerSkeles]

When are you visiting slums of Switzerland?

[@Galidorquest]

lol

[@misterphillipw]

I have been to Suisse...there are NO slums...and No Blk women or men.

[@koshurent5757]

Ain’t no way you made it from 79th to the circle out west that fast😅😅😅

[@TS-KDMF1777]

I used to walk 6-8 blocks around Marquette Park at age 8 and never had a fear Definitely not the 80s anymore.

[@alfonsodennis8450]

Let the police do their jobs and Chicago will be a nice place.

[@DaviBeatz-z2k]

gotta do this in the summer

[@timray7066]

I think all neighborhoods are very good. It's the people and the behavior they bring with them into any area.

[@alfonsodennis8450]

My kind of town Chicago is. Love it

[@PandaMoolin]

oh come on! you know where the hoods are! that aint it! thanx for doing these. when you went in cali and talked to the kids was koo. place i grew up they would never allow filming.

[@jackcollins8088]

taylor and california aint good enough for you?

[@Mothman308]

Where i grew up saying "koo" wouldn't be tolerated.

[@PandaMoolin]

@@Mothman308 lol areas are different. plus when you come sideways you may become a "unsloved" no jokin...

[@Mothman308]

@@PandaMoolin I don't understand snowflake language sorry

[@PandaMoolin]

@Mothman308

[@tropicalpalmtree]

Damn 760k Hard work is paying off charlie

[@Lenilsonjs]

Feliz ano novo 🎉CharlieBo.

[@bricks-mortar]

Chicago "hoods" videos are the same FEW areas repeated on many videos.👎

[@ziggysmalls9329]

Looks like Newark New Jersey where its off the hook too

[@victoryredcolorado]

You ain't in none of the hoods bruh

[@davidw7]

He was probably just googled the highest crime area and just went there again. I am pretty sure he went by the nortorious 0-block low-rise housing project. Area merely got some newer retail box stores, but has plenty of lost buildings on them main streets and lots of empty lots off them in the neighborhood blocks of homes. Surely you saw all these empty lots? Chicago is just far more proactive in removing abandoned housing starting in the 90s. Once thery seen a too far gone.... its boarded up by the city with a rex-X in front as basic as lly condemned. Eventually denolished back to just grass lots and trees again. The city is maintained, all streets get street-sweeper cleanings May thru October into Nov off main streets at least twice a month and main streets more. Trash removal is maintained thru its alleys 90% of the city has. Still shows many gar as ges still there for some homes left. Mostly the alleys have the powerline grid and ugly poles freeing fronts for them still soaring trees on its grid of housing blocks homes are set back from the streets for green. This gives the city a green look outside of winter and wider streets than many eastern cities of tight row-housing to the streets no set-back. These hoods were originally not with those empty lots and a far more affluent middle-class neighborhood once. In gact if a block Charlieboi goes down has more nice intact homes.... he cuts that portion out in edits. Chicago again does not get on Charliebois videos of worst-looking hoods. It is in general clea er and greener with great architecture.

[@tamiaadams8049]

Used to live off king by the beach. Chicago has nice parts but the hoods don’t look that bad especially compared to gary indiana 😂

[@misterphillipw]

Gary Indiana looks like Berlin in 1945

[@bartenderzzz]

At least it's clean af.

[@MrHorse-by3mp]

Chicago is definitely dangerous in some parts. It doesn't "look that bad" because the city engaged in slum clearance and building public housing projects more than any US city, possibly on a level comparable to UK cities like Manchester and Liverpool. The really squalid tenements that the city used to be famous for were torn down ages ago. That said, looks aren't everything. Chicago isn't Rio de Janeiro or Johannesburg bad, but still pretty damn dangerous in places by almost any standard.

[@PsytranceLove]

Looks better than the German city where i live

[@misterphillipw]

I used to teach in Chgo...I was assaulted once...Board of Ed demanded that after the children left the school...we were to sign out..."we cannot guarantee your safety"...

[@jimmyconway6080]

Blows, Rocks! Park🗣️

[@bobjustin9747]

No eyeing if you ain't buying 😡😂

[@jasonweatherspoon365]

They on 79th and Halsted ✅💯👀I no my city 🏙️🌆✅

[@chatchi]

Chicago something special ❤

[@applejuice5635]

What's the name of the street Charlie turns on at 3:19? Had all those dealers chirping at him.

[@EST1266]

That’s out west Madison and Pulaski

[@stansmith8206]

That has always been one of the largest heroin/fentanyl "open air" drug markets in Chicago.

[@applejuice5635]

@@stansmith8206 I actually remember Sixers player Pat Bev, who's from Chicago, on a podcast talking about when he drove through Kensington in Philly and said it reminded him of West Chicago because of all the dealers and addicts.

[@Imissyoulou]

@@EST1266 I drove down Madison and Pulaski YESTERDAY and they are rolling down there.

[@protectorofillinois3]

Repost: I'm sorry, but this vid gets thumbs-down from me. Reason - you didn't even include the names of the neighborhoods in the video description at all (e.g., Englewood, North Lawndale, East Garfield Park, Washington Park, etc), nor did you include narration at all (I know most of you are going to respond to me with smart-ass comments, so I'm waiting for it).

[@GGm1819]

Big Bo love spinning onna Raq

[@TheloniousJackson]

Chicago’s an amazing city

[@ChristianGustafson]

Guyon Hotel needs a benefactor.

[@Imissyoulou]

Everytime I drive by the Guyon, I want to cry. If the Rosenwald Building can be rehabbed, something can be done to the Guyon. However, you have got to consider the people and the political represenatives. That is where the problem lies.

[@ChristianGustafson]

@@Imissyoulou You mean the apartments at 47th and Michigan? I agree, glad to see them saved. Used to ride my bike past there all the time, up Indiana, back via Michigan.

[@MusicLover-ui9sm]

The police need to be thanked for the very dangerous job they have to face daily

[@natdrinachatman114]

Look at outwest Madison st . Haven't seen over there in years...

[@AESTHETICS_ONLINE]

Monroe and Keeler👏🏾

[@StephenRada-q6g]

These neighborhoods look a lot like (North) Murderapolis, MN...

[@CharlesSmith-gw7gp]

Theres drugs all over chicago and gangs.

[@claytonphillips85]

Typical Chicago they go act a fool no matter the weather

[@mitteradams1216]

Looks like a lovely place to live

[@JonathanButler-zd8qt]

Is this the worst hood in Chicago?

[@MailmanNick]

Worst hoods that I've seen are Englewood and Grand Crossing but I'm only familiar with the south side. West side I hear gets crazy

[@Galidorquest]

The are some bad-looking hoods in the south suburbs like Dolton, Harvey, Robbins, etc... CharlieBo never visits the south suburbs.

[@MailmanNick]

@@Galidorquest that's where I'm from. Harvey is very run down

[@chination1796]

​@MailmanNick Nah the Southside hoods got the Westside hoods beat 😂

[@MailmanNick]

@chination1796 do they? I'm only familiar with the south side but hear stories about the west side

[@55cleon]

He Filmed This In Englewood Primarily.

[@Galidorquest]

8:39 My old neighborhood

[@IAmACheeseBurger]

1:21. HO HO CHP SUEY!!!!!

[@Denyko-neko]

charlie my man

[@az3jay566]

Is this 79th

[@toxicgracie3772]

I agree with the other comment, East Cleveland looks the worst. I've been through Chicago in and Gary and Cleveland and East Cleveland is another level. It looks worse than Detroit even. East St Louis, Flint and Camden are rough asf too but EC just seems the worse

[@lousanto1054]

Wild Hunnits

[@SoSikWitIt]

Loose squaree loose squareee

[@terryballard4674]

what a miserable city

[@bryantrobinson7597]

@@terryballard4674 No, it's not.

[@SoSikWitIt]

your miserable for thinking he showed all of chicago in a 12 min video

[@bryantrobinson7597]

@@SoSikWitIt That's what I'm saying. Some people watch these videos of him driving through the hood and think that the entire city is like that. They have no idea.

[@terryballard4674]

@@SoSikWitIt Can you recommend a video showing the GOOD side?

[@SoSikWitIt]

@ kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGKciXyOr8pgfLM kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpSnYp9rfdd3mrc

[@redl1ght1]

Charli forever putting his life on the line for the buck😂

[@2342anthony]

❤❤❤❤raq

[@donnycollection9799]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@DetroitCaleb9387]

Detroit Detroit 313

[@GoingGoingOurWay]

The hood police Chicago Illinois Lose sad during weather winter Happy Monday January 12nd, 2025

[@misterphillipw]

Based on your writing here...did you get beyond 7th grade in Chgo?

[@sharonsmith2750]

I don't see the gangs

[@Galidorquest]

They don't hang around in the streets anymore, they move in silence. Just like in Mexico.

[@Galidorquest]

They move in silence.

[@Imissyoulou]

There are not a lot of gang fights now. Everyone has their own spot and it is respected.

[@misterphillipw]

Well....if you don't see them then must not exist.

[@VGHCX]

Will people ever learn you cannot domesticate WILD ANIMALS? That's what a zoo is for.

[@MichaelSattler-d2l]

Ja ja Amerika First

[@312money77]

79th Halsted

[@dmbjr1975]

79th and Halsted

[@bradtretheway9478]

Isn't jjs fish where BIG A from oblock was killed?

[@soldolcemelo7059]

Aká en Argentinas tenemos 40 grados de calor y en chicago un hermoso invierno...

[@ZabrMabr]

Учите географию .не будите удивляться элементарным вещам 😅

[@tamiaadams8049]

Used to live off king by the beach. Chicago has nice parts but the hoods don’t look that bad especially compared to gary indiana 😂

[@misterphillipw]

The Black folks who lived in Gary...destroyed it looks like Berlin 1946

[@tamiaadams8049]

@ yup definitely giving war zone 😂