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Never for a second found "the southern part of downtown Chicago" to feel unsafe, nor most of the areas south of there either. I also think you're overestimatin
by queenkjuul 1y ago
Never for a second found "the southern part of downtown Chicago" to feel unsafe, nor most of the areas south of there either.
I also think you're overestimating the effort put in to help historically disinvested neighborhoods. There are policies in Chicago that are working, but they're not being done at scale, and nobody here is pretending they are.
- tptacek 1y agoYeah that didn't ring true to me either. There are no McDonalds in downtown Chicago that are in anything resembling bad neighborhoods.
- queenkjuul 1y agoClosest you could possibly get would be the McDonald's on lake and Ogden (West loop not south) and even then, that's not an unsafe area, just not a very nice/tourist-friendly area.
- kasey_junk 1y agoUsually (and I don’t want to put words in the posters mouth) when people complain about the loop being dangerous what they mean is that they are more proximate to homeless people than they are used to. Which is a bias that incorrectly associates homelessness (and it’s frequently paired mental illness) with danger. If you replace “dangerous” with “frequented by the homeless”) you get more candidates. The now closed McDonald’s on state. The one at wells and Adam’s and (not in the south loop) the one at lake and lasalle. Though I’d bet money that the most dangerous in terms of being involved in or witnessing violence is the “rock and roll” McDonald’s in river north because of its hours and proximity to drunks. Most people would _not_ assume it was dangerous though.