man its crazy, ypu got no idea how close the westside is....one of the most notorious "ghetto/hood/projects" in chicago was "cabrini green" and cabrini was literally 10min walk from some of the most expensive real estate and townhouses and condos in the city, ehilr it was still up..cabrini used to be on chicago ave between halsted and orleans and thats why they moved all them people out. some of the most expensive land in the city was the home of 7-10k of the poorest people in the city, people that had no way of moving cause most of them who could afford to move did so by the late 70s and early 80s when that project was a war zone and the murder caputal of chicago..literally high paid business men and CEOs had condos with in walkin distance of these projects..so they moved the poor people out, demollished the project buildings and now you got million doller condos and houses and retuarants and galleries and bulildings on that same exact land
kind of fucked up huh..the white man again just coming in and taking land thats not theirs..since the area was so poor, very few families owned their housesw and whatnot, they rented or they libved in the CHA housing which was city owned housing..so very few if any residents got any money out of this deal, aside from the money they got to move, none of the profit thaqt was made by building these multimillion doller condos
cabrini green is kinda like how brooklen is becoming, minus the hipsters..its more like millionare CEOS moving in cause people have been licking their lips to move in for years..the hipsters are a little farther west in a area that in about 10-15years will be the "hot spot" and be one of the places everyone wishes they moved to "back then" cause in 10-15years those condos and houses will cost double then whatr they count cost now..just you watch, its the same shit that happneed in brooklyn
it was a nice white middleclass area, the whites moved out and the blacks moved in..then after 50-60years they start to make plans to move the poor people out cause it really is a nice location and so the artists and the the hipsters move in cause they are poor and need cheap living and when the hipsters and gays start to move in the crime will go down cause the black people are moving out cause they dont like all these new poeple in there area where they are normally free to sell drugs with no police but since white people moved in the police presenace went way up, but its still can be dangerous at night..and after 10years of this gentrification it now is the "cool place" to live in the city and the price really go up and people that bought condos for 150k brand new when they were 27 that was in a so so area, are now 37 with 2 kids and are able to sell them for 550k and buy a house after that 10years cause the neighbor hood completly changed