Why "O'Block" is Totally Forbidden | Chicago History

[@ITSHISTORY]

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[@earleneprocter4699]

Lol REALLY! !!!

[@duanemartin2280]

@@ITSHISTORY lol with this story being told yes you would highly need life insurance, " Oblock "

[@Darkness-ie2yl]

it's v block now

[@HisNameIsRobertPaulson01]

I imagine your insurance quote is going to be quite high when your application looks like this, 'Address: O'Block, Chicago, IL 60637'

[@user-qu3zf3pj8s]

❤️🙏🇺🇸 😥 Look at mlk in any state STL

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

You think O-Block looks rough? You should see the hood Drake grew up in in Toronto. The means streets of Forest Hill make you grow up quick, just last week someone toilet papered a tree, and the week before a bicycle was stolen.

[@Sharinghan22]

Noo way. You fr they stole a bicycle???? Ngas in Toronto on sum other shit

[@Niceguy_habibti]

😂😂😂

[@paulmackay7265]

There's a house there that rarely mows it's lawn. Tough part of town. They don't even recycle. Gangsta shit.

[@austinbarile2714]

@@Sharinghan22 i thought they were in Paris though..?

[@ninobrown90]

why people gotta be ngs​@@Sharinghan22

[@danielbishop1863]

I'm reminded of Chris Rock's observation that even though "Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence", that anywhere in America, "if you [are] on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down."

[@chihickman4836]

Yes every king drive in the city is in the hood

[@Montweezy]

​​@@chihickman4836Not in Charlotte,NC it runs by a couple of America's biggest banks headquarters..right through downtown where it's very expensive to live but in Chicago everything on King Dr is hood as well as most other cities but Charlotte is one I've been to where it's nice

[@robnduhcut]

Boondocks

[@OgCommentking]

@@Montweezythen that’s the only one cuz eeeevery mlk bvd I’ve even known…. Bih it be going down 😂🤣🤡

[@Mediocre00Rebel]

Apparently places named "college park" are pretty messed up too.

[@survivingthetimes]

Hawking life insurance on a video about O-block is hilarious.

[@kyleclark6147]

@@survivingthetimes brooooo, im glad somebody else saw the irony in that 😂

[@agent_of_cthulhu]

It's hocking that you're thinking of. Hawking is the training of hawks.

[@redneo_6]

@@agent_of_cthulhu hawk too? Eh.

[@828enigma6]

O Block sounds like part of a prison.

[@dfpguitar]

The layout is like a prison too

[@bearworldwide101]

That's the way folks who promote public housing high rises do it most of the other housing projects in Chicago.

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

It is

[@heystarfish100]

It deserves to be converted to a proper prison. That would be a betterment for the city.

[@szlpharmacology1330]

@@dfpguitar this is shockingly true. was it by design or by chance

[@Susie_Floozie]

Architecturally, it looks like a train derailment. It's like a visual metaphor of the hopelessness of its residents.

[@waltercasas3124]

Chicago architecture be like that a sore sight

[@Susie_Floozie]

@@waltercasas3124 I grew up in Wichita, Kansas, a blighted hole that was like the Mos Eisley of the Midwest. The city's claim to "art" was a rusting metal structure called The Tripodal, that looked like a huge skinny dog hiking its leg to piss on the pretentious convention center.

[@annas263]

@waltercasas3124 You must not be from Chicago because we have some of the most beautiful architecture in the entire world. Chicago architecture is beyond beautiful.

[@firstnamelastname6216]

Well said!! 😂

[@johns3106]

It looks remarkably like my dorm complex in college…so, it’s not necessarily the architecture that creates the problems associated with this neighborhood…there are plenty of other, real pressures affecting these folks

[@Wheelgauge-bt7ox]

I had worked in parkway gardens for 3days after a heavy storm that flooded the basements and power was out. All I can say is the people that lived there were the best and helped us any way possible.👍

[@dawnreneegmail]

I lived in complete poverty due to poor financial planning on a move to THE SOUTH (not south side, shytown gurl here,) into a furnished studio for less than a hundo a month! Interior door for the front door, roaches the size of my hand AND BROKE. The bro & sis with her two littles in the main cabin (once was a motor park motel, they had 'the office') fed me and they were broke! She would stand over a stove and share their meals with me, a yankee too. Generous to a fault, Southern Hospitality like no other!! Hope they fared okay.

[@tonymullin6934]

Lollllll the people the best lollllllllllllllllllll yea bc when you think of oblock you think of great caring people

[@NorthElevation]

Of course they’re going to help you and be nice to you. They wanted their power back on. 😂😂

[@earleneprocter4699]

I'm sure they are good people. They are just like all human beings, although they are oppressed by no fault of their own.

[@sbadiyahaustin]

i guess you forget that mothers and grandmothers and innocent children and working parents live there, too, huh? those few gang members do not make up the entire neighborhood. they are just the ones highlighted due to the notoriety their crimes brought to the area.@@tonymullin6934

[@1208bug]

The way that the buildings are laid out reminds me of a train wreck!

[@828enigma6]

I thought that as well.

[@KnittyKitty86]

At least I wasn't the only one who saw it.

[@Not_You_2]

Fitting

[@King_SHANG_Presents]

That aerial view did make it to appear that way. That place is definitely a death trap.

[@Frrrrrrr4L]

That’s how projects usually look in big cities

[@theequalizer9154]

Worse were the Cabrini Green projects. They are long torn down and gone, but still Infamous to this day.

[@Montweezy]

Same with the Robert Taylor Homes. Used to have snipers on the roof back in the 80's

[@shawtyeatemup1352]

@@Montweezy 90's too

[@H8rProof]

I grew up in Cabrini in the 80s and early 90s. O block might as well be a cop shop compared to Cabrini.

[@dwight971]

What years did you live in Chicago

[@Skarry]

I spent the oughts hanging out at the viagra triangle. I always crossed the street before Cabrini when walking from the L or wherever. Sad situations.

[@Neighbor618]

20,000 people living within 14 acres is crazy.

[@caseysmith544]

5,000 more then State Capital of South Dakota.

[@sammyleebadasscash6503]

Perhaps they should buy their own house

[@libramagyk]

More kids higher government check..generational tax burden of the working class

[@BarryAgains]

​@@libramagyksad state of modernity... Interesting the population is not growing im guessing because murder rates and the ones who make it ain't making many.

[@samschade1923]

There’s not even close to 20k people there. It has 694 units. There’s over 2k nearly 3k people living there now. I mean back then maybe maybe they stuffed those type of numbers in there but I highly highly doubt it.

[@gibbsm]

$1,200-$1,300 / Month, 808-893 sq. ft for one of those units. That's insane.

[@christianweagle6253]

Seriously! How do you find an apt that cheap? (This msg brought to you from Boston)

[@wyattblackwood3927]

The people who live there are not paying that because it is subsidized by federal tax dollars taken from working people's pockets.

[@dawnreneegmail]

in all fairness, poor folk get taxed the same.@@wyattblackwood3927

[@jonfrmthedrty]

@@wyattblackwood3927 right cause none of those folks work right. It's based on income

[@realityhurts8697]

​@jonfrmthedrty I came from welfare and a single mother in the hood. I worked my ass off, got marketable skills and am complelty free of any bs, except taxes that pay for politicians, illegals and welfare. Welfare is a scourge, it could be a good thing, if it mandated skills training, no work, no money go ahead and starve.

[@shaunnichols1743]

Good job of looking at the situation both analytically and with compassion. With all the poverty tourism and scaremongering you see on KZbin these days it's good to see someone actually dive into the history and multiple factors in why these areas have these issues.

[@robertkcisaw7528]

Some of the funniest stuff on the Internet is the Google reviews for parkway gardens lol

[@AZISMYKINGDOM]

They are hilarious 😂

[@RCsBoy82]

Man the 5 star rating made me spit my water out… 😅😂😂😂😂

[@bdoglance]

haha, just got off Yelp and all the five star comments talking about the 'wonderful fireworks every night' is crazy!! 😂

[@xneilaelprupx]

the Atlantis resort photos 💀

[@bartsullivan4866]

Send out the link that sounds hilarious.

[@beaniemac]

I live 2 miles south of oblock. And if u drive past these days, there's fences all around and they have attended security blocking the only entrance.

[@mcf3778]

i saw that when i was using google street view.... 1 open entrance with 5 cops

[@1208bug]

Gated community, just like rich folks!

[@hamadilawson4471]

@@1208bug Gated but not quite like the rich folks🙄

[@carlmorgan8452]

Sounds like a good place for people on the take. If you know what I mean

[@SEBAS31077]

Is the gate to to keep crime out or to keep their ass in

[@MrAntiVevo]

Oblock is about a mile away from one of the most prestigious universities in the country located in Hyde Park. The University of Chicago, specifically their law school. It's an odd relationship, but Chicago separates it's neighborhoods by highways, railways, and busy streets. One of the most crime ridden communities within walking distance of one of the best law schools in the country

[@David-um4dy]

Same thing with USC in LA. It's literally in South Central LA 😂 no where around this private school is safe.

[@Yourmumsrectum]

So you mean like every city toss job

[@teanmace]

Columbia university ,in New York, is across the street from Manhattanville in Harlem.

[@gloriousjohnson1807]

: L.A.'s 110 frwy did the same thing. 😢

[@dadevi]

Maybe the Chicago law school is so good is because of the court cases in Chicago.

[@RichardHarding-u3z]

Man shots out too you for putting an actual history too a hood that's not about how much drugs they used to sell back in so n so

[@jonsmith848]

I grew up roughly 12 blocks South of O Block...a different time...left Chicago 40 years ago...🤔 yep im 66 but alive ,& well

[@adrenalineadrian4166]

Move back

[@derekspringer6448]

Good to hear old timer!

[@Babyr1der]

Unc

[@Therealmoseslupai]

Ayyy stay up OG. Glad you're still alive & doing well.

[@Supersmartandfunnyguy]

My man

[@willyjoerockhead]

My tire fell off my car just a block from there on 63rd st. Minutes later a tow truck showed up. The driver told me he got about 6 calls about me from concerned citizens.

[@AkeoT9]

I’ll take that shit didn’t happen for 100 please

[@willyjoerockhead]

@@AkeoT9 make it 1000

[@willyjoerockhead]

@@AkeoT9 ...why does my reply keep getting deleted?

[@Jus4ya]

@@AkeoT9right I go to the autozone all the time nobody calls for people being concerned

[@AlternateKek]

@@willyjoerockhead if you say something slightly off the comment moderation will auto delete it. You could say something very simple, but YT will still delete the comment.

[@thereckoning5488]

I'm white and in 2008 i was traveling through Chicago with a ruck sack and an American flag walking for troops killed in OIF-OEF. As I was walking through I passed O block and I can tell you the people that lived there treated me like gold. Its not always about how you look folks. Its about where your heart lies. I have nothing but love for O Block.

[@ellisjackson336]

That was about a year before O block got its nickname

[@mikequinlan9585]

Excellent review of a heartbreaking history. I pray a workable solution can be found.

[@Creepin294]

Working nights in that railyard was....an experience.

[@Doc_Cyco5150]

@@Creepin294 I spent some time working in the yard in Oakland ca. they were multiple time there were gun fights going on IN the yard. I never wore a reflective vest or carried a lantern but ALWAYS carried something else.

[@Troy-y5b]

@@Creepin294 I bet it was. There's no telling the things you saw.

[@GenXMetalHead73]

Thanks for these videos. I've been following your videos for sometime now and I get a lot of info out of them that I would never have known otherwise, I enjoy history personally which is what drew me to this channel in the first place. You obviously put in a great deal of research to make these videos. Thank you I enjoy them.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Glad you like them!

[@goddemigod3999]

I live 6 Streets away from the O'Block. I never had an issue. I get those looks when I mention I live as South side... so much stigma on us. The narrative must change. 57th Baby Here

[@faenethlorhalien]

Basically a reinforced concrete slum

[@cal4207]

Ghetto not slum

[@dwavyy300]

@@cal4207 semantics 😂

[@don-tl6hu]

Ghetto was the term Jews used in WWII and the blacks adopted it for their own neighborhoods that they made that way.

[@andrewxxxx7835]

@@don-tl6hu it’s what other people called Jewish segregated neighborhoods that others called areas where Jewish people lived being used in 1516

[@activelow9297]

There's nothing salient about the buildings themselves that make them a slum.

[@thecofieldcollection3792]

When rappers are your bragging point, Lord help ya.

[@MrMarcodarko]

I respect rap, but rap culture is extremely toxic. They tried to blame metal in the 90s but metal proved that there is a seperation between music and musician. Rappers live the life without seperation. So stupid.

[@throttleblip1]

O block or Who cares..ghetto by culture

[@garethcourtney284]

Anybody else even heard of them besides on this video.

[@amg2022]

as opposed to a Mississippi hillbilly 😂

[@patriciabuffo2036]

​@@garethcourtney284Yeah, I was raised a few blocks from there.

[@notmitch2891]

I had to like the video before I even watched the whole thing. If you could do a video on the history of Cabrini Green next that’ll be great since it’s hard to find information on the neighborhood in general. I’m born and raised on the near north side so it would be a great video to see

[@Misslynndance]

Theres a whole famous documentary on cabrini green

[@Democratsrock]

I worked for the University of Chicago for 22 years. I drove through Englewood every single day to and from work. I understand statistically crime was high. However what I saw for those many years, was people sweeping in front of their little stores so they look nice or taking care of their homes and just trying to live a life.

[@boybeblessedtruly9758]

remember grass lawns?

[@plateshutoverlock]

Of course, a place like this has a pleasant sounding name like "Parkway Gardens". If there is a place called "Fluffy Bunnies, Day Old Ducklings, and Cute Baby Puppies", I will be sure to stay at least 20 miles away from it.

[@KaDaJxClonE]

On Oahu there is a "turtle cove" and it's dangerous AF. But "shark beach (or bay)" is totally safe aside from monk seals.

[@ariannamyrie9520]

Real estate honeypot.

[@Vinegarissweet]

@@KaDaJxClonE I did not know that. I'm glad you said that. Lol

[@someirishguy1662]

In Ireland, Dolphin's Barn is one of the most gang infested neighbourhoods in the country The cuter the name the more violent the area, even our largest prison is named ironically 'Mount Joy'

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

Interesting history. Thanks for posting. As a former southside resident, I was aware of the big housing projects along State street, but not this one. Improvement of the rabid crime in these areas will not be solved institutionally. The source of the problem is local and cultural in nature, and the solution must arise from the same source.

[@Sniperboy5551]

Yup. They have to stop idolizing criminality and start policing their own. There’s an economic component, but most of it is social.

[@DavidCarter-c2z]

Does the cultural problem also include the high crime areas that had Irish, Jewish,Italian, Mexican Neighborhoods as well?

[@adamgossett3150]

Great comment 👍

[@dudeliberty]

Maybe genetic?

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Lived in Chitown for 12 years and never heard this moniker. Thanks for sharing. ❤

[@RodMzi]

Always love your Chicago videos

[@RodMzi]

Back at it again Socash 💸

[@dawnreneegmail]

Me too Ryan!! Your continence and delivery a pleasure to learn what could be dry and dull, ... just like in public school! Happy New Year from all your fans! (thanks for letting me hitch a ride on your nod@@RodMzi , blessings

[@DaleWilliams-zc5te]

As a college student I was required to take a liberal arts course. The main text was "Toward a Liberal Education". The center paper was about a Chicagoan housing development constructed to provide affordable homes for the poorer citizens. The article glorifying all aspects of this development. That is "O" block. All things worked for a couple years until the ACLU and Chicago Dems decided that it was a violation of civil rights excluding, eviction and prevention of gang bangers access and housing.

[@tomweickmann6414]

Good post. Thanks. A similar weirdness is going on in China. Investing in massive apartment buildings made of poor concrete that collapses like a house of cards. Lives are being devalued everywhere.

[@ripper690]

Interesting! I didn’t know that, but I am not surprised (I say this as a resident of illinois 😭)

[@shaunnichols1743]

Right. It's the ACLU's fault. Nothing to do with redlining, loss of blue collar jobs, or police negligence and misconduct. It's because of the ACLU.

[@anon8633]

​@@tomweickmann6414and some of those 'cities' are not inhabited and actively demolished after the photo op

[@timjugovics1790]

Parker-Holsman Real Estate is still in business in the Hyde Park/South Shore neighborhoods. Never knew their history but I did grow up in one of the properties they managed and also did some janitorial work for their properties in the 60's through the 80's. Great people to work for that went out of their way to help many people.

[@BrooklynBounce]

About 10 or 11 years ago I was over there to pick up a car I bought long distance off eBay. All I can say is be very cautious and be extremely polite and respectful to anyone that you encounter. I had a pleasant experience but the man that I got the car from told me about some crazy stuff that happened there a few days before I got there.

[@idrathernot_2]

Try rephrasing that as 'stay out and violently resist any attempt to get you near it'

[@Misslynndance]

Off ebay???? There???? R u insane

[@malcolmbliss777]

I finished college in Phoenix and took my first job as a paramedic in Chicago, spring of 1991. To say it was culture shock is a vast understatement. I could write a book, but in one sentence to sum it all up? On one call we entered an apartment in the old Cabrini Green and the residents there had nailed chickens down to the floor, presumably bc they were easier to clean up after and got fatter quicker. Poverty and children seem to go together like salt & pepper. We should be spending the vast majority of our tax money on keeping these people childless for as long as possible, even if it means “bribing” them with money/benefits.

[@manuelhernandez9448]

Damn Bro .. that’s Harsh .. look at Russia .. they need peeps; I don’t America 2 be in that situation.

[@Misslynndance]

Wtfffffff

[@Navisworker]

This is great. Would you consider doing something like this for Africville in Nova Scotia?

[@freetolook3727]

Life Insurance: None of us gets out of here alive! 😂

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

😂

[@MrJamiez]

😅nobody gets out alive. 😅

[@bigdaddyswole]

Good place to make friends I’ve been told. Wear a blue hoodie (they love that color) and yell “smokin that von pack” and they’ll greet you with open arms.

[@PrincessPxthead]

@@bigdaddyswole definitely trying this on my upcoming vacation to Chicago!! Thx

[@79mini]

Blue ... colors matter wonder how a bulls jersey is felt😏

[@divinekod]

All you need to do is walk down the street yelling "I'm king Opp!" Everybody will come outside trying to be your friend.

[@brokeeccentric5323]

You are now dubbed- Lil So-Cash .Mans in the trenchs now with the likes of TLR 😂

[@nickysindora6952]

Can you do a story about the steel pier in Atlantic city I would love to know more history about it I worked on the steel pier as a ride operator about 11 years ago and loved every minute of it

[@ninobrown90]

imagine fighting over something u don't own😅

[@strickersniper7909]

How about the British being the British

[@desireesmith862]

@@strickersniper7909 Ssshhhh it’s cool when they do it /s

[@bobbiegilbert7202]

@ninobrown90 it is not about property, it's about losing friends.

[@mickey2ky]

I am so glad I found your content! thanks for the history. I sit back with a beer and vibe >:D

[@ITSHISTORY]

Welcome aboard!

[@7Fatguy]

17:48 looks like the rock and terry crews lmfao

[@b1646717]

8:02 everybody looking sharp

[@bishyeahbish3758]

New subscriber my good man. Came across your channel an hour or two ago and I'm binging.....Hard! I'll definitely be watching more on this channel tmorow I've gotta go to sleep now but I'm gonna be playing this in the van on the way to work. Sweet work brother. Respect 👊🏻

[@cyberbeer65]

Joe Louis was from Detroit, not Chicago!

[@MarloSoBalJr]

But he "lived" in Chicago though

[@cyberbeer65]

@@MarloSoBalJr He never lived in Chicago.

[@anthonygordon133]

@@cyberbeer65 He lived on the South Side of Chicago and operated several businesses in Chicago.

[@Resistance_is_Futile01]

In my hood of Cherry creek in Denver you say good morning and I will be darned they will say good morning back! Wow!!

[@Fatally]

@@Resistance_is_Futile01 Cherry Creek scares me more

[@wolfeyeraven]

Have you considered do an episode on St Loise Missouri's Pruitt - Igoe ? Basically the sister to Cabrini Green

[@justise5621]

I'm from Detroit n I can honestly say the lou is scary

[@TheNapalmFTW]

You edited this comment but still didn't get St Louis right 😂

[@darcybloom-boedefeld5046]

Thanks for this detailed info. Well done

[@ITSHISTORY]

Glad it was helpful!

[@davedronski7749]

I thought that this video was really good and sensitive, until you said if you live in 'o' Block you should get you some life insurance!😂

[@rawdawgg_]

Is he lying tho??.

[@83reggieT]

Parkway is rough but its not like robert taylor cabrini green rockwell and the hornetz used to be in the early 90s those places were rough. I used to get spooked driving through them when i was a kid.

[@vendettaray8748]

the way it’s set up gives me such an eerie feeling

[@keenanrice2612]

We can't have nothing nice.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

People still be crying about segregation and slavery like they lived it and are entitled to some sort of special treatment or status. The country said nah yall are the same as the rest of us, Americans.

[@mikenuyen4441]

If two barely known rappers are the best attributes it has to offer really doesn't say much for the place.

[@meerkatmanorjr.2085]

Chief keef has more money than you will ever even be able to fathom in your 1970s style vertical wood panel house. Grow up Mike

[@2197slimeball]

barely known? this obviously aint the type of music you listen to goofy😂

[@awakenotwoke2643]

Yea,but it's full of wanna-bes who think they're bes,lol.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Funny enough, Chief Keef is a dude with his morals right. Those one time where rap actually helped the homies

[@tam6148]

I totally agree

[@rocco_420]

It's crazy how such a dangerous place can produce so many talented people. It's sad to see so many other people not realizing their true potential though

[@bongwelll]

Maybe if they threw out their trash they wouldn't have rats and roaches. That's no one's fault but their own. I've lived in buildings like that where people throw trash everywhere and there were rats and roaches. Everyone plays a part.

[@AcesnEights698]

Generational welfare recipients aren't known for their standards and work ethic.

[@paulsecrest9427]

Thats the thing if got just one resident that have rats or roaches. Everybody could get them. I grew up in apartments mom cleaned all the time. But if the person next door moves and they have them they comeing to your place.

[@Ismayehere]

When i was 12 years old(The peak of GBE, And OBLOCK) i never thought this shit would ever be what it is today and don’t mean that in any positive way at all. Shit is dumb, lost a lot of friends and ALL OF MY MALE FIRST COUSINS to the streets and jail💯 Dead ass hurt me to see yall profiting from their pain

[@SPSSkals]

A real shame about how this area has been exploited by gangs. It actually looks like a nice place to live and a lot better visually than most places here in the UK or in Eastern Europe where I'm from, looking at them it's hard to imagine so much crime there.

[@Worldopain]

Look up the hoods in LA. They look like luxurious areas to me. Big houses. It's sad

[@fuscazo5399]

Rats and roaches appear because of the habits of the pigs living there

[@SithLordAnakin]

You know how much of an impact that area would have IF they VALUED LIFE that small step would pave the way. They fighting for like what Cyrus said in The Warriors.. "a little turf" ... Something they dont even OWN

[@don-tl6hu]

Great movie The Warriors

[@SithLordAnakin]

@@don-tl6hu The Best.

[@Milosan1986]

Imagine thinking you own the streets, but it only takes one bill being written and that block being gentrified.

[@theredhun]

I can almost promise you that area will never be gentrified and that's the way the City and residents want it.

[@priceyindividual2995]

Pretty crazy how all these cities are still segregated

[@thelonerick]

Do you think that segregation is due to color or money?.

[@walterathow5988]

Always love your videos 👍👍👏👏

[@j_ndgo]

The framing and presentation of history intrigues me a lot

[@TacSoob253]

Great video

[@baldisaerodynamic9692]

its amazing how much of a cesspool certain areas are....when people change their behavior.....well maybe the neighborhood will improve. if a complex needs fences and security, its pretty sad when adults need paid baby sitters.

[@edsel762]

Recommended reading, "The Devil In The White City", by Erik Larson. Great work of non-fiction.

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

I think this was a different White City (see beginning of the video).

[@Sniperboy5551]

That was a very good book, I read and did a report on it in high school.

[@Sniperboy5551]

@stephenmoerlein8470 It was the same White City, 1893 World’s Fair

[@dawnreneegmail]

reading it right now! and how!!

[@stringlarson1247]

​@stephenmoerlein8470 it is. Nothing to do with this piece.

[@TJDawgs72]

I grew up relatively poor but out in the country. I noticed the one thing generally that differentiates being poor out in the sticks and being poor in the city…the poor folk in the country still seem to keep things clean and tidy while in the city everything looks like a trash heap. Now I know there are exceptions to that like seeing several houses with cars up on blocks…lol, but for the most part, it’s pretty consistent. Pride in your community is the start for a want of a better life. The sad part is though, until it’s cooler to be an engineer or a biologist than it is to be a drug dealer or a gangster rapper, this cycle will repeat itself over and over again.

[@BryonNikkel]

People should come to Skid Row in Los Angeles!!! That is where I live. 50 blocks of total poverty!!! And a very very tough place to live!!

[@KortNatali]

I’m moving there next week, can’t wait!

[@ITunes02]

It's been 2 months, you good?

[@KortNatali]

@@ITunes02 I have two gun shot wounds and have contacted aids, but it’s been great!

[@Niceguy_habibti]

😂😂😂😂

[@justise5621]

​@@KortNatali😂😂😭😭😭😭

[@Costa998]

As a big fan of J1 GTB i did not know that drill music was born there

[@blueeyesandmudpies]

i really wish it was in the hands of us... but it's really not. Appropriately, the mayor was boo'd this weekend at the Chicago House Music Fest at Millennium Park. House music also came from Chicago :) typically 120bpm constant

[@blueeyesandmudpies]

sorry that's an all over the place comment. Chicago has a rich history of segregation, and a lot of it came from Richard J Daley in the 50s. these houses right on the other side of the highway are a direct response of RJD.

[@micheleparker3780]

Thank you for speaking the truth. Change starts there.

[@brewcitymike1]

From '98-01 I attended dozens of raves at Route66 roller rink on 66th and MLK and for a bunch of teenage white kids with colored hair, giant pants, stuffed animals, glow sticks etc it seemed like a sketchy area. I saw a man in purple suite smash a 40oz over another guys head in the middle of the intersection and we heard fights and a few shots in the distance from time to time. But we could usually wait in a long line to enter the venue for like an hour without any problems. same with Dolton, Harvey and Logan Sq.

[@WyomingGuy876]

"Roaches and rodents roam the hallways of the buildings...." - and that's just the human occupants

[@samallocen6110]

@WyomingGuy876 As if Wyoming isn't a great expanse that white trash blows across and, just as often, remains. You're likely one of the guys that Matt Shephard blew, before you crossed him out, out of shame.

[@RichardHarding-u3z]

RYaN! I work directly under the ambassador bridge for the mourouns (bridge owners) at a cement company heres a great video idea if you Google Earth the Detroit river (Detroit side just 500 ft south of the bridge) you'll see an entire sunken barge right below the surface and a dock to unload train cars from Canada it's pretty cool you should do

[@stringlarson1247]

I have family in Windsor. Word has it that there's finally a plan to actually build a second bridge. Not sure if it's going to use the bridge to nowhere or something east.

[@charlessmith263]

I had studied quite a good deal of gang history involving hi-rise apartments in Chicago. At the Robert Taylor homes, the projects were decaying due to these 3 street gangs---the GDs, the BPSNs, and the VLs, who fought for turf not only outside the periphery of the projects, but even inside the interiors.....all the way to the outdoor terraces and even in stair shafts too. The explosion of crack cocaine in the Taylor homes made these gang problems much, much worse there. This gang-laden decay caused the housing projects to be torn down. Same for Cabrini Green too. Almost the same gangs, the same decay, and eventually, those projects were razed also. But O-Block - is even worse. I am guessing not only the 3 aforementioned gangs were also fighting for turf there, but I suspect that the New Breeds may have looked at that O-Block and caused gang rivalries leading to so many shootings there in the past---and up to now. So sad.

[@jasonwall319]

I heard the violence in Chicago exploded when the projects were torn down, causing the gangs and drug dealers to move into new territories. The other dealers didn't like them moving on to their turf

[@NeverlandSystemAngel]

Imagine that... govt housing and crap treatment of people that don't give a crap about anything... leads to completely unimaginably horrific living conditions.

[@shanaynay333]

@@NeverlandSystemAngel You nailed it. I live in an "upper class, predominantly white (though not entirely white) permanent supportive housing" -Aka project based apartments. I'm dead ass the only one with a clean house out of 12-15 apartments, 1 of 3 with a job, and 1 of 2 with ambitions of leaving this mf. And they cater to the super fucked up people with no ambition.... Bc that's where those government dollars get sent in for. The less potential you have, the more help you get..I feel like an investigative reporter up in here. And in some sense I am. It's the most counterintuitive thing to watch how things "work" here. They don't.

[@thefinalkayakboss]

17:58 "if these terms are confusing its because [this is some extremely ignorant shit]" got it

[@FlyinRaptorJesus]

The guy at 17:23 looks a lot like Terry crews lol

[@michaelschultz342]

At around 10:40, just because the Police are not constantly around doesn't mean Crime is going to increase UNLESS the Population has degenerate Moral Standards and a higher propensity for degenerate BEHAVIOR. Less Police means longer response times NOT increased Criminal Activities unless the Population has impulse control and Empathy issues. Demographics MATTER!!!

[@traderparkboy4274]

I was looking for Charliebo 😂

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Well done, the most notorious projects are long gone.

[@Neosoul_prima]

Proud person of the southside, and the rich history and values that were established on me from birth! The PJs hold a lot of love, but if the people were supported, and not put down things would be better! We all know that, the government doesn't fund areas like this, to get rid of the people, and totally change it back to the way it was. The same happens here in NYC, and all of the cities that were populated by the migration. Blacks were always pushed aside, and treated unfairly in the north before it happened, and after! It was not as peachy as the south was taught it was, but it definitely created lots of successful businesses, artists, and more! I can't wait till I'm able to return an give back to my community

[@Kit001west]

This is one of the only comments I feel that takes care to recognize the cause of these issues and their continuance, thank you for that.

[@Neosoul_prima]

@@Kit001west thank you for reading and responding

[@tias.6675]

Wasn't it the government who spent millions to build these places ?

[@hobeone1192]

I got off an NS train there and a Pace bus stopped in the middle of the road and told me to "gtfo on now" lol..

[@djxcel23]

In All these areas you have people fighting over these blocks and they pays no bills, or taxes. They live with their mamas. They are super ignorant. Every public housing complex in america brought terror to the area. It’s time for a reset.

[@asintonic]

many of these areas are known to sell high quality drugs. That means people from the north of the city or surrounding suburbs come to make purchases. These gangs are very organized and very powerful. some of what you said could be fact.

[@SithLordAnakin]

They dying for Land they dont own.. and bragging rights that are meaingless thats some sad shit.

[@danthemancushecan]

I go past there often on the King Drive bus. With the gates and security standing, it looks exactly like a prison

[@don-tl6hu]

They like it that way, its why prison doesn't bother them.

[@dfpguitar]

The layout of parkway was asking for trouble. Like a gauntlet of gladiatorial amphitheatres in the middle of Violence riddled neighborhoods. Also a labyrinth of places to hide and separate buildings and enclosed triangles for people to create zones of affiliation. If Chicago had no culture of gangs, the design of parkway alone would have created it.

[@echelonrank3927]

i had a great soviet o block experience in the 80s. but these o blocks werent warehousing criminals and alcoholics

[@Demigord]

Also a notorious problem with universities that have similar setups with housing (not to mention nothing but young residents and usually copious drugs and alcohol). Oh, they don't automatically form violent gangs there? huh

[@martymar2024]

"Occasionally rings with the sounds of bullets" 😂😂 For one it's not the bullets making the ring, it's the gun shots. For two I guess it's how you define "Occasionally"

[@julianshepherd2038]

America is rich and free Why is it such an unhappy mess?

[@asintonic]

because of the politicians that make promises to these Americans and then don't commit!. mijo

[@Doctor_Buckets]

Because of our 13% problem

[@dawnreneegmail]

you are being sarcastic right? gold toilets, nuff said.

[@TheMidwestWaterproofing]

Chicago has been ruled by Democrats for 100 years. This is the result.

[@reptilemark7346]

​@@Doctor_Bucketsactually the opposite. Its the 60 percent and the rest who came from foreign lands to a stolen land

[@growapairandstopwhining6645]

In the early 2000s they closed Cabrini Green and moved a portion of them to northwest Indiana and the heroin overdoses exploded making the area the highest number of od's the highest in the nation per capita. Shit was crazy. The numbers have come down a bit but the level of crime and drug overdoses are still significantly higher than it was until they moved out here.

[@kingofoblivion1822]

The entire project building is infested with cameras on every corner and in every hallway. It’s almost impossible to get away with anything without being caught on camera but unless they leave the ghetto and kill someone outside of their jungle the murders go unnoticed even though majority of the crimes are caught on video

[@brandoncole5533]

Some parts may be worse (Burnside mainly) but the fact that it's just that small area that's so notorious really throws out any argument against it

[@Keegan.999]

“We not frm 63rd” -King Von

[@Zoopop13]

i was around the Latin Kings a lot, bunked at the house from time to time. they liked me despite no affiliation to any gangs. i live around 45min away in the suburbs, but in mini-Chicago (iykyk). honestly for a small high-immigtant area, it almost seems worse here than up there, and i frequent both places. all the ones from the city are coming out to the mini city.

[@AlternateKek]

At a point these communities need to stop being given excuses.

[@anthonycatalfamojr2403]

I would love a Newark history.That's where I'm from.I just discovered your channel.

[@anthonycatalfamojr2403]

Specifically East Orange and Orange NJ.

[@blastedpotato]

Have you ever been to Irvington? I work there and go for walks and jogs on my lunch break in the middle of the day. Pretty rough out here

[@Thessalonians22-kg8pf]

O block looks like a prison from above. Did a prison architect design it?

[@brandontrussell5835]

@13:55 "Crimes almost 700% higher than the national average", then proceeds to show a table where literally no crime is higher than 450% higher