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Kate's avatar

I used to live in the same apartment building as Eliza in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago. It sounds like that was after Wicker Park and definitely also not a gang-controlled neighborhood. 🙄

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ryne's avatar

It was kind of wild listening to this episode, cuz I spent the first 30-ish years of my life in and around Chicago (Logan Square and Wicker Park so i know the area well) and especially in the goth and alt scenes. I'm sitting there with my wife listening to this (she was in that scene too) and we're kinda looking at each other like .... i feel like we may have encountered this person before lol

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Kate's avatar

You probably did! at least we were able to avoid getting to know her 😂

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abstract_secret's avatar

As someone who lived in the Logan/Wicker area back in the day, how nice/rough were the neighborhoods? I moved into the area after it was clearly gentrified and have heard very different things about how the neighborhood was 15+ years ago.

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humandynamo's avatar

I moved there in 2006. Wicker was long-gentrified at that point, but Logan Square was being hyped as the next up-and-coming neighborhood. And it certainly changed by the time I left in 2015. There are now big ass high rise condos on Milwaukee that didn't used to be there. When I first moved there there were bars and stuff to do, but it also felt really...desolate and empty. Maybe the wrong words to describe it, but it was pretty sparse compared to today. For whatever it's worth, my block was very much in the bustles of Logan Square, and it was well understood that the Latin Lovers "ran" our block. We were friendly with the neighbors so never had any issues, but there were certainly illicit activities going down on the block.

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ryne's avatar

hey that's around when i moved to Logan Square! early 08, lived right around the corner from where they eventually built Revolution Brewing, near California and Milwaukee.

at the time, the theme for Logan Square was: "Come for the bars, stay because you got shot."

Oddly, from my buddy who still lives in the area, things seem to have come full circle as the crowds that form up along the gentrified Milwaukee Ave corridor tend to be uh .... a bit rowdy.

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humandynamo's avatar

Ha, I lived at Talman and Milwaukee from 2010 - 2015 so I was there for all of that. Spent many, many nights at Cole's.

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ryne's avatar

Ah right on! Cole's was literally a 3 minute walk from my apartment, we probably shared some oxygen at some point haha. I was more of a Neo man myself, til it closed in 2015, thus the goth scene connection

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ryne's avatar

The unofficial tagline when I moved in (edit: to Logan Square, 2 blocks from the California blue line stop, Belden and California) in 2008 was, "come for the fun, stay because you got shot."

it was kinda rough lol. friend of mine lived on my block and had his ground-level apartment broken into several times. me and my roommate also had a ground-level apartment, but it only got broken into once. we were convinced our relatively quiet was due to the probably illegal chop-shop that was operated out of a garage nextdoor lol (ie, don't shit where you sleep)

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humandynamo's avatar

Haha yeah I lived in Chicago around the time and was pretty heavily involved in the arts & music scene and even worked in the Gold Coast for a year at a 4am bar. I probably unwittingly crossed paths with her once or twice.

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