Comments about 52 division

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Paul Davies: I completed a 4 year apprenticeship in electronic engineering between 1973 and 1977 at Aquila. Just the fact that I gained my 'deeds' stood me in good stead when it came to getting work later. Aquila was......

in response to: MoD Aquila (Part Two) by Simon Cornwell

Mitch Spector: Passing by on my way home this afternoon, saw the vertical red "Bens" sign was finally taken down. They also removed the the last piece of the wrap-around sign below it, that white section with......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Humboldt1: Gentrification is being caused by yuppies and professionals from the east moving further west, displacing current long-time residents. The park itself is beautiful and a true gem in the Chicago Park District, but is......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Jules: Okay....BORING is the reason my husband and I left Jacksonville in July '06. We did everything a modern Metropolitan couple could do. We lived on the river, we had season tickets with the......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

kls: My husband and I have lived in Humboldt Park for 4 years since moving to Chicago from Guatemala. I cannot think of a better compromise for us both. I love being near the shops......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Skip: I remember being an idiot while in the Navy stationed in Chicago in 1995 and driving through Cabrini at 1A.M just because my friend had an obsession with "The Hood." He flashed some fake gang......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

just me : I like many of you grew up in the HP area. No I don't live there anymore because i had my children and chose not to raise them in that enviroment. Needless to say......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

kidcapri22yrs: ok, ok what some people are saying are that, the nazi-ideology has infiltrated the american gov't from 1930's to present, built one of their many capitol structures to capture and enslave non-anglo americans. what are......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

JoeyD: This is Just fantastic! haha maybe its the local division HQ for ICE....or maybe its Dubya's presidential library... the posibilities are endless! Hope all is well down in SD I love the......

in response to: I Could\'nt Think of a Title for This Because a Pictures Is Worth a Thousand Words. by jack

ChiPhi: Christopher and others, why is there always a: "...somebody needs to do something to help..." why don't people take responsibility and pride for their own? I have lived in this neighborhood for 5 years......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

jeff: i've lived here for 22 years and have often complained about wanting to "get out of here". the problem seems to be once i'm somewhere else i miss home terribly. there is something that draws......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

Skip: I remember being an idiot while in the Navy stationed in Chicago in 1995 and driving through Cabrini at 1A.M just because my friend had an obsession with "The Hood." He flashed some fake gang......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

J.J.H 543WDIVISION: I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF CABRINI GREEN SINCE FEBRUARY 1962 COME FROME A FAMILY OF TWELVE. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THIS BLOG THAT KNOWS ABSOLUTLY NOTHING ABOUT CABRINI GREEN....

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

John: I remember 'the locks' in the late eighties when it was often used as an excuse for teenage, relatively harmless turf war. I remember one night air-gun pellets whizzing past my ears from the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

R.W. Texas: I found this also by a search engine. I am a history buff and did some research. Signal Oil went through a lot of mergers and divestitures before all was said and done. AlliedSignal was......

in response to: Signal Gasoline by fuzzytank

MaGoo: PS: Just for context- so that you realize that my observations are quite balanced and unbiased: I was raised by a single parent on welfare- we were abjectly poor. Most of our neighbors who were Bushwick......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

nuclearrabbit33: I used to work for a carriage company in Chicago. We had to pass through Cabrini Green every single day...both on the way to downtown and the way back to our barns at night. In......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Xavi: Most of the eastern part of Humboldt Park until the mass Puerto Rican migration of the 1940's and '50's was Jewish and Polish, with some German and Italian elements. When those ethnic groups were......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

HushUp: Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Sam: I remember when this neighborhood was Italian. My grandmother owned a house on division street between Chicago and North Avenues. The neighborhood was beautiful and the houses well maintained. The Our Lady of......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

CATCH A BIKE THIEF!: We bought brand new bikes from these nice guys at CycOmotive on Bathurst. We paid $3,500 for the two mountain bikes. One was higher end Giant and the other one was Giant Pistol 2 16......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

EvilGentleman: I would agree with the majority of what has been said, but I will state my opinions on each issue, so it becomes obvious where I stand. I think the best way to have notification on......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

upfromflames: ** The Urban Ecology of Arson** The power of the Wallace's interpretation is its integrated systems approach. just as flames cannot burn in a vacuum, the flames of July 13th did not arise out of nowhere.......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

jack: esmer, your probably too young to know what this is about so i'll explain it simply to you. since the inception of this nation we have always depended upon men and women to fight......

in response to: Untitled by dfwtiger

EvilGentleman: I am glad that my pictures are getting viewed by some of the former tenants here. The only parallel I can use to try to imagine how you folks feel is to think back to......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Grant: I am sitting in an apartment in 1230 Burling (one of the buildings in Cabrini Green) as I type this. I have lived here since 2000 (and before that I lived in a house......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

WindyCity4life: I would ay Cabrini would be considered still dangerous.Last time i was their,their was a bunch of Gangster diciples walking around outside of the remaining high rises on west division street.My dad used to have......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

phill: Look at the cabrini green green homes on north larrabee street, and the one on west division. WHens the last time you've been in cabrini? It right in the open. YOur probably blind, where you......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

ebola12: Cabrini-Green exsisted way before there was a "River's North". Actually it was just considered as the Near North side of Chicago. Cabrini-Green consisted of 3 distinct sections: (1) The low rise (roll houses)from Chicago Ave.......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Autumn: Jean, I would defintely seek advise from the Division of Wildlife in your state, call a veterinarion and/or see your Dr. I came down with "cat scratch fever" after my own pet cat bit me.......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

Peter: is "river park" an actual park, or is it (as it appears to be from the style of signage) some sort of suburban subdivision?...

in response to: Respect in River Park by jeeff

EvilGentleman: Editors, a question, if you please - I want to post a thread, or set of threads with the graf pics I took in the last week, but even after editing, I still have well......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

jeeff: elicar - how about the reservations up north where people continue to be stuck without clean drinking water and reliable infrastructure? how about the saskatoon police (to name only one notorious department)? the amount......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

elaine: the third one looks like it should be an LP cover from a band like joy division. nice bunch of pictures altogether....

in response to: Industrial Wasteland by stinkyben

EvilGentleman: K-Money: You wonder why I was in Cabrini Green at 1:30 AM? I was passing through, of course. Being hungry and needing a break after spending all day on the road, I went to the......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

grange: Nice animal , I had a whole family living in the field behind my house .The Vixen ( female) had a litter of kits every year .It was great .In the winter I would go......

in response to: Mangey Urban Fox by elaine

Ramón: As a P.R. from Chicago I would definitely like to see that the P.R. flags in Division St. remain there. I would also like to the statue of the horse that was in the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Ramón: Humboldt Parks belongs to humanity. Many people and many cultures have enjoyed its beauty, some have contributed more than others. I grew up on 2735 W. Division and for some reason going home......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Another thought from JJ: This thought I wrote after I saw some homeless people on North Ave. In the fall of 2005 I found a man who lived in ten double lined garbage bags filled with newspapers, tossed by the West side crowds, making......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Peter: dude, you should! and pack along the camera. and listen to lots of [[wiki:joy division]] whilst there......

in response to: Manchester Dec 2005 - Part 2 by indykid

Papo colorao STONE LOVE: to jj. brother did this happen in 1987? because if it did i was one of the ones who was shooting down some scr's who represented at me and my stone bro'on division. bro i......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

J.J. From a Puerto Rican brother: I'm not writing this to judge or criticize anyone. Just to try to open a little conscience on la raza Latina. Mi gente, how can you speak of love when you talk everyone else down.......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

ian: The six Wards are the remnants of Houston's original political divisions from the late 1800's. I live in the Third Ward, which is the area South and East of the CBD. Fourth Ward lies to......

in response to: Potrait of a Hero by ian

LAME CP: ----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: TABS Date: Nov 4, 2005 9:14 AM Dallas graffiti abatement... The City of Dallas has started a new graffiti program today. It's the same program that the City of Phoenix, AZ has. It includes......

in response to: Dallas Graffiti Like What! by Tick Tock

cafeconleche: This is in regards to Reality's take on what is happening in HP. People...its called regentrification. Its been happeingin since I was a student at Clemente...WHite people Do have a chioice! The......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

elaine: see, before all the chav thing took off there was the pikey, which i think, though it is a little different roughly equates to white trash, and now there is this extra division, where the......

in response to: Outdoor Sofas by Jamie

kobe: i always get a little weirded out by vehicles that say vague things on them, like the one above that reads ##"special operations division"##. wonder what that means? its anyones guess....

in response to: Newark Vehicles by Peter

that folk nigga jus shot that slo6b: folks are a family, not some "gang" we are an orginazation. one that utilizes growth and development, education, politics, social development, and education just to name a few. as we stand upon our 6 point......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

hotdogx: Dissapointing to see some of the stupid an unitellectual comments here, This realy illustrates the necessity for a lot of "growing up" to be done! People not from ireland must really believe us to be......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

anon educated bystander: this thread amazes me. what amazes me most is the blatant lack of education that seems apparent in northern ireland. this no doubt is the root cause of most of your division....

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie