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Englewood born and raised... grew up on 59th and Throop. So much good and so much very bad happened to me and my family on those streets... dont know rather to smile or cry while looking at this drive thru video and reminiscing 😔
@@bigsleez8655 I no longer live there bro... haven't for a very long time. my entire family made it out... honestly I couldn't even tell you. Quick answer Mayors and ward aldermans haven't cared about Englewood or the people of Englewood for a very long time. Zero public pressure to do anything about because it's not on anybody list for gentrification
I used to work in the area in the 90’s and every house & apartment was occupied. It looked nothing like you see today. During the daytime you see rarely see anyone outside.
I'm from Chicago and man, what a dump.. The sky is depressing, the trash Is depressing, the boarded up windows is depressing. Nothing about that area inspires life or fun. Just brick building after sad brick building.
I live in a village in Gloucestershire in England and we had a spate of litter dropping and weeds growing from the gutter. However, after a meeting in the church hall we all decided to get together one Sunday afternoon and tidy up. I realise it's a bigger job here but then you do have more people to call upon who don't appear to be particularly busy. It's amazing what a bit of organisation amongst neighbours can achieve. Sharing a nice cup of tea and some homemade cakes afterwards certainly encourages kinship.
I am also in the UK (London) and I feel you are being a tad optimistic regarding a neighbourhood clean up in this area. It has gone way beyond pulling a few weeds and picking up litter. The whole place looks as if it should be condemned. I can only imagine what the crime stats are.
The people here have lost all hope. Managements property here and there are shootings go on between houses. We tried to put up outlet mall and idea was shot down.
Yeah, well you are talking the descendants of African tribes when you talk about urban blight in America. You don't sit down and have tea and crumpets with that sort. Even the cops don't want to go into areas like Englewood. They are effectively "no-go zones" and if you are the wrong race or wear the wrong gang colors, venturing in to invite them to tea and discuss cleaning up the area, you'll end up dead in a back alley somewhere.
I don't live in Englewood, but I go through different parts of it everyday. I am watching Hispanics, buy those houses, fix them up, and live in them. Their houses are beautiful, for the most part. Further South, the neighborhood improves and it looks relatively nice. In other words, ALL of Englewood don't not look like this.
I totally agree. They are showing the worst of the worst of Englewood! You have pockets that indeed need improvement, however, many areas that are nice as well as up & coming.
Illinois was the 5th most populated state. It's now 6 or 7. Chicago lost a large chunk of people. At peak, it was over 3M. Now it's almost neck in neck with Houston. Around 2.3M. Chicago is trying to stay at #3. While Houston is at #4. Houston will be #3 at some point, very soon. I'm from Cabrini-Green. Left years and years, decades ago.
@@yourmommahouselies lol. You obviously don’t know the history of Illinois corruption for the past 80 yrs . You do realize that our government is responsible for creating solutions and funding money to these neighborhoods right? When was the last the city of Chicago has ever done anything good for englewood, lawndale, auburn gresham, little village, Garfield park,k town, rose land, stony island, calumet city, the gardens, o block. Nice try there
This is so sad. I grew up in this neighborhood in the 60's. We lived at 5658 S. Hermitage, but we traveled up and down a lot of these streets to visit relatives and friends. It was vibrant! CLEAN! Safe. People watched out for each other.
I am 57 and grew up on the Southside. Damn the images in this video brings back memories. Sadly it looks like a ghost town now making it hard to believe that back in my childhood days the parks were green and the neighborhoods were filled with kids playing outside on virtually every blocks . There were black owned neighborhood stores in every hood where 50 cents could get you a bag of candy. Political administration's changes made them all slowly disappear. Now there are vacant lots everywhere and despite the media making people believe the gangs changed all of that it was government neglect, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas, stopping of city services in those areas all for the purpose of bringing property values down making those areas ripe for gentrification. The project building seen in the opening of the TV show "Good Times" are all gone, the people are gone and now their are high rent buildings and condos there with Starbucks and white people jogging with exotic dogs. It's the same thing happening all over this nation with places like Brooklyn NY being another example. It's sad looking at the Southside today because it doesn't show the life that was once vibrant in those areas. My family lived from 56th and Normal through 62nd and Normal from the late sixties through the mid 70's. Today that area is a vacant lot bought up by the railroads for pennies all of my childhood memories wiped away by bulldozers and surrounded by chainlink fences. 😢
@edwardthames9003 I wish he would have shown the two parks within Englewood. (Hamilton Park and Ogden Park) They are still GREEN and various programs are hailed within them. In fact, Ogden Park has a new outdoor area/field were youth football and soccor ⚽ games are played. He was just driving through alleys and certain blocks. Does Englewood need help? Yes, and many are trying to improve it.
@@autumnsmom1117 yeah I think Ogden Park is the one right across the street from Sherwood where the field house is. We used to go in the field house for tumbling and other activities. I learned to read well at Sherwood and I recall being excited when the mobile book truck came to the school. There I got to read the newest Curious George books and others. I even recall one time that an African King came to visit the school and we took a picture for the newspaper in front of the school with him. After fifth grade we went to John Hope for sixth through eighth grade. I know I'm rambling but the video brought back so many memories.
I’m from the Midwest, Milwaukee to be exact. Milwaukee is an hour away from Chicago. My opinion, the whole Midwest is dying. I use to go to Chicago, it’s not anything I’m interested in anymore. A lot of people are still fleeing from up there.
If you guys notice there is no trash in front of these homes or even in the alleyway i’m from chicago don’t judge the people of the abandoned homes that’s a government issue even though houses are not the best those residents take pride in their homes you didn’t see any trash what does that mean ❤
That means it's another black neighborhood full of good people that's been targeted by another racist local Government.this happens nation wide in all the red line communities this RACIST country forced black people to move into.🤬🤬🤬 One day God will correct all .
Englewood Raised.... I have lived on several of these blocks mainly 67th and Sangamon Damn the Area looks so desolate now, All the big brick buildings were once full of people, Life & memories the footage Howards Chicken shack on 69th street had some good food. Good times & bad times Englewood helped mold me taught me how to survive & live anywhere
I’m from Chicago and from the 100s on down to the low end some areas are run down because there is no Jobs in the areas , the economic infrastructure in these areas are bad and it caused alot of poverty and run down buildings because people can’t really afford to put alot of money back into their properties.
CharlieBo...please show some corner street signs when you're filming. It would give all of us a better idea where you are. Thank you, and lets be careful out there!
@@sowhat3245 I've been though the South side of Chicago many times, picking up and delivering freight. So, I know what to do and not to do south of 31st St., and east of Cicero Ave. .
Great video Charlie Bo. Wish you had driven by 63rd and Wallace. That's the sight of the infamous Murder Castle. A post office sits on that spot today.
@@fleurmartin it can be Googled. It happened in the 1890s. Chicago was hosting the World's Fair. A man named Midget built a non descript building at 63rd and Wallace. Inside was a chamber of horrors. The were sound proof rooms, an acid vat, a dissection room and others. I think he roughly killed about 8 women. He fled Englewood. The building burned soon after. A post office stands on it's spot today.
@@peterdelestrez8880 They don't know how many women were killed there. Remember, the woman that Midget bought the building from, suddenly came up missing. Many women came up missing during that time, NEVER to be heard from again. Legend has it, that some parts of the killing chambers are still in the basement.
Lots of hispanics are buying those broken down houses and fixing them up especially by Sherman Park(MoeTown) in englewood my neighbors used to be all black now the whole hood is almost all hispanic and with the migrants coming in englewood is gonna be more hispanic in the coming years
TRUMP COMING ALL THESE PEOPLE WILL BE DEPORTED AS MANY AS THEY CAN ITS A RECOKING COMING TOME TO BE AMERICAN.REBUILD OUR COUNTRY FIRST.WE MUST DEMAND CHANCE OR WE WILL MAKE HAPPEN.
@@soniajulie6465 Englewood was a blue collar working class community. In the 70s factories 🏭 started closing, moved out of the city and country. People lost jobs. Businesses started leaving the community also. The 80's saw the crack epidemic and people really started leaving in droves.
@@autumnsmom1117 In the 80's & 90's our area was full of People, life & fun it was the hood but plenty people had businesses, People started to leave in the early 2000's
Anyone notice the large amount of vacant lots? They are the result of buildings being torn or burned down either by the city's "Urban Renewal" of the 1960s, or the MLK riots of April 1968. Now these lots have 50-year-old trees growing on them or just being overgrown.
Yes, those lots are only in the black community. Hispanic communities are wall to wall single family homes. Same with business, wall to wall business in the hispanic community. Billions invested into the hispanic community and nothing for the black....
Chicago has policy of tearing down vacant and dilapidated houses. This has been going on for decades. The 68 riot primarily took place in the west side
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Great video, Charlie, I love these, thank you! (Also, every time you go into those narrow little alleys, I'm always so worried that you'll be jumped and murdered... even though, if that had happened, we would obv. never see the video. But pls stay safe!)
Englewood is changing a lot. For the better. There are a lot of new developments that are coming, and being built currently. Show the nice parts of Englewood! Not all of it is run down.
I resided at 6831 s carpenter st back in the early sixties and the neighborhood was nice and all the buildings were kept up. The building that i resided in is still there and looks good.i would like to buy it for memories i am retired and relocated to Blytheville Arkansas.
Such a depressing looking place, with many depressed and unhappy people. Nobody wants to help this place, not even the people who live here. I seriously do not see it getting “better”, hard to imagine any big corporations or businesses moving in anytime soon neither.
You need to speak with individuals who live in this area. Yes, this area needs help, and there are many within this community who are helping. When resources are not properly allocated to certain areas, this is the result.
Is it black owned? And is it quiet with no hip hop playing? Seriously i want to know. Once in awhile I like to go to coffehouses thats not *$. With good customer service
@@fleurmartin I think a white guy owns it. It’s a very nice, low-key atmosphere and the workers there are all really friendly. The prices can’t be beat either.
I personally do t think so. But not sure. Pullman area defi atley. I think i lmow rmthe scene you mean. When he lived in the bsmnt. Or when they foumd the black guy and the girl together. Good moviw
Where are we going? If it's easier to infiltrate foreign countries with the help of political intrigues and military bases around the world than to put things in order in your backyard? Where have the funds from depleted resources gone? The decline of hegemony.
@@alposingleton5744 he ain't gonna go thru the trenches...I thought fasho I'd see the old quick stop on 66th and Halsted across the street from spirits
Ain't nothing but heroes and fallen soldiers over there the neighborhood is absolutely legendary the city government the city municipalities does not care about the conditions of my community voting is a joke politics is a joke I swear when and if I'm able to do it I'm going to give back to my community😢😢😢
I really don't care how bad people try to make my city out to be. I love Chicago. There are cities with true hell holes, but i get it this give everyone a chance to look down on something while ignoring their shit. Pitiful
The sad thing with the shortage of affordable housing so many of those boarded up buildings could be rehabbed or at least torn down. All of this is intentional. You have alot of absentee owners who get to write off the taxes on these properties and leave them looking like this and it makes the whole community look bad. But there are some non-profits trying to rehab homes for home ownership its just that its so many abandoned properties.
No shops, no convenience stores, no restaurants, no neighborhood Pubs, no CVS, Walgreens, gas stations. everything the rest of us take for granted. So sad.
There is a Walgreens on 63rd St South Halsted Parkway, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and other shops, as well as gas stations that were not shown. In addition, two parks are within the Englewood Community. Ogden Park and Hamilton Park. Factories started closing and leaving Chicago as well as the Country by the 70s, with it came job loses. You really started seeing the decline by the 80s, with people moving out the community especially when the crack epidemic occurred.😔
@@billkussmaul2940 No problem, I wish the videographer had shown more of the community. I hate seeing its decline as well. There used to be the largest shopping district second to downtown that was once located in Englewood. Now, Kennedy- King Community College is located where it once stood. If videographer had driven down Halsted St., 55th-75th as well as Racine, Ashland, Wentworth, 63rd, 67th, 69th, & 71st more things would have been shown. The community does need help, and you have RAGE (Residents Association Greater Englewood) and other organizations that are really trying to make a difference.
I read years ago, that a famous architect said; Chicago was like a women with a very beautiful face ,meaning the Loop/Downtown & a very ugly body , meaning areas of Chicago like this..
Notice the trees. No leaves. Nothing growing. All of Northern Illinois looks like this for at least 6 months out of the year. Fall winter.. usually by October the trees are bare. April almost May before it starts to green up again.
CURIOUS you show 12 blocks & Alleys on the South Side to get CLICKS. Have you done one on LINCOLN Park, WICKER Park, HYDE Park, South SHORE, The GOLD Coast, South LOOP, or DOWNTOWN? I didn't think so because that's where the Middle & Upper-CLASS PEOPLE LIVE, and it's BEAUTIFUL !!!
I feel for the homeless animals like cats and dogs - at the mercy of some of the people that dwell here 😢. I lived in a area like this once and took home a cat that was homeless.😢😢
I worked in Chicago subs for yrs as a union carpenter, revamping abandoned schools under the Obama no child left behind plan. Engl, S-Calumet, Gary. And so on. Also converted Wamu banks into Chase after they closed at 7pm till 4am. I bought a ten yr old chev expess van and left the windows down when parked. Shit was crazy as a 27yr white guy from a small rural town.
For Centuries US has helped other countries while their own people suffer/live in poverty and don’t invest in "their own country." Chicago is trying to house “the immigrants" they’ve allowed to come here But the homeless that have been here for YEARS remain homeless. Find/ provide housing and jobs for people that are from here First and then move on to the "immigrants!!"
I'm surprised Rock Star hasn't. "Grand Theft Auto: New Madrid" (after the New Madrid fault line that runs through southern Illinois), like what they did with LA and the San Andreas fault.
Compton not even the worst looking city in the LA area. For people that don't know Compton was made famous from the 80's and 90's Gangsta Rap Movies. It was worse back then just like everywhere else but never as bad as they portrayed. Compton is not even on the list of the worst looking cities, that would be places like Philly, Baltimore. Compton is a suburb of LA and it's about 75 to 80% Mexican.
What's the point of you doing this? Only our people love to show the worse of ourselves!! I never see you drive through a middle class Black neighborhood!! Smh!!!
Hard to believe I spent the first 6 years of my life in that trash of a neighborhood. My family was part of the great white flight by moving to the burbs in the late 50's-early 60's.
I worked in Englewood dozens if not hundreds of times, throughout the south & west side, north side, and downtown, all throughout Chicago and suburbs installing commercial laundromat equipment in laundromats, nursing homes, car washes, animal shelters, apartment complexes you name it, wherever there's a washer or dryer needed good chance I've been there. The coolest job for me was the job up at Hallas Hall, the facility where the Chicago Bears practice. I met Brandon Marshall and came across Matt Garza in the parking lot with his foot in a cast when I went out to grab some tools. I got to talk to him for a couple of minutes and got his autograph, despite the owner of the company telling us not to approach players for an autograph 😂 I guess that part is irrelevant especially since Hallas Hall is in the suburbs. My point is the media paints a certain picture, there's always that scare tactic. Englewood probably isn't the safest place, especially at night. As a basic white guy with no gang affiliation, I never had any issues with anyone in a couple of decades working throughout it. Cool video man I'm going to subscribe to your channel.
CharlieBo, you need to use your platform to get into these hoods to try to steer some of these guys especially the younger ones out of that life. Even if you reach one soul your mission is complete. Youre driving by many suffering people who need help.
I cant believe what they did to that part of Chicago, I'm born and raised there, I left at the age of 43. I will be 81 in January, I miss my home town,but I can't gi back, too many bad memories, caused by bad people, I love seening thu, thats what I miss. Raised on Southside off 47 and Federal, oh back in the day, before all that destruction and depravity
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Englewood born and raised... grew up on 59th and Throop. So much good and so much very bad happened to me and my family on those streets... dont know rather to smile or cry while looking at this drive thru video and reminiscing 😔
Well said! Real Truth.
Why is there so much trash everywhere
@@bigsleez8655 I no longer live there bro... haven't for a very long time. my entire family made it out... honestly I couldn't even tell you. Quick answer Mayors and ward aldermans haven't cared about Englewood or the people of Englewood for a very long time. Zero public pressure to do anything about because it's not on anybody list for gentrification
@@bigsleez8655 glatze
Some very nice places!
I used to work in the area in the 90’s and every house & apartment was occupied. It looked nothing like you see today. During the daytime you see rarely see anyone outside.
I'm from Chicago and man, what a dump.. The sky is depressing, the trash Is depressing, the boarded up windows is depressing. Nothing about that area inspires life or fun. Just brick building after sad brick building.
It’s a lot of soul and raw talent coming out of Chicago. what are you talking about
@@bob-mb6ubboy no it ain’t you just talking . You ain’t out here
Its quite different than in Europe. Almost no soul is walking on streets. Is it even safe to walk there ?
@@cobrabull8289hell no. Not there
Brick buildings that Hispanics are buying, fixing up and living in them. They are doing it wth the frame homes also.
I live in a village in Gloucestershire in England and we had a spate of litter dropping and weeds growing from the gutter.
However, after a meeting in the church hall we all decided to get together one Sunday afternoon and tidy up.
I realise it's a bigger job here but then you do have more people to call upon who don't appear to be particularly busy.
It's amazing what a bit of organisation amongst neighbours can achieve. Sharing a nice cup of tea and some homemade cakes afterwards certainly encourages kinship.
I am also in the UK (London) and I feel you are being a tad optimistic regarding a neighbourhood clean up in this area. It has gone way beyond pulling a few weeds and picking up litter. The whole place looks as if it should be condemned. I can only imagine what the crime stats are.
The people here have lost all hope. Managements property here and there are shootings go on between houses. We tried to put up outlet mall and idea was shot down.
Absolutely correct. If people who live there are apathetic, nothing will ever get done in their neighborhood.
I've heard Brixton is the roughest neighborhood in London. Englewood is lightyears beyond that.
Yeah, well you are talking the descendants of African tribes when you talk about urban blight in America. You don't sit down and have tea and crumpets with that sort. Even the cops don't want to go into areas like Englewood. They are effectively "no-go zones" and if you are the wrong race or wear the wrong gang colors, venturing in to invite them to tea and discuss cleaning up the area, you'll end up dead in a back alley somewhere.
I don't live in Englewood, but I go through different parts of it everyday. I am watching Hispanics, buy those houses, fix them up, and live in them. Their houses are beautiful, for the most part. Further South, the neighborhood improves and it looks relatively nice. In other words, ALL of Englewood don't not look like this.
Why do you discount this decay of civilization??
I totally agree. They are showing the worst of the worst of Englewood! You have pockets that indeed need improvement, however, many areas that are nice as well as up & coming.
Correct about the Hispanics. Picking up property cheaply.
Agreed
i notice a lot of migrants moving to the area. There also was a news article that a lot of people from Mexico are buying the houses in West Englewood.
Illinois is the problem period it's mismanaged by terrible government officials people are running from IL in record numbers ..
It's ran by people who dont care about Chicago as a whole..just the money and position they are in
Lies!!! Try those southern states!!!
Illinois was the 5th most populated state. It's now 6 or 7.
Chicago lost a large chunk of people. At peak, it was over 3M. Now it's almost neck in neck with Houston. Around 2.3M.
Chicago is trying to stay at #3. While Houston is at #4. Houston will be #3 at some point, very soon.
I'm from Cabrini-Green. Left years and years, decades ago.
@@LostintheUS-2030 dude you ignorant AF!!!
@@yourmommahouselies lol. You obviously don’t know the history of Illinois corruption for the past 80 yrs . You do realize that our government is responsible for creating solutions and funding money to these neighborhoods right? When was the last the city of Chicago has ever done anything good for englewood, lawndale, auburn gresham, little village, Garfield park,k town, rose land, stony island, calumet city, the gardens, o block. Nice try there
This is so sad. I grew up in this neighborhood in the 60's. We lived at 5658 S. Hermitage, but we traveled up and down a lot of these streets to visit relatives and friends. It was vibrant! CLEAN! Safe. People watched out for each other.
Never coming back.
Those days are gone forever.
55th and Honore, 60s early 70s . I bet your neighbor was Tim Brennan
As a life long Illinois resident i can say thats the quietest and the cleanest ive ever seen Englewood look❤
I am 57 and grew up on the Southside. Damn the images in this video brings back memories. Sadly it looks like a ghost town now making it hard to believe that back in my childhood days the parks were green and the neighborhoods were filled with kids playing outside on virtually every blocks . There were black owned neighborhood stores in every hood where 50 cents could get you a bag of candy. Political administration's changes made them all slowly disappear.
Now there are vacant lots everywhere and despite the media making people believe the gangs changed all of that it was government neglect, shipping manufacturing jobs overseas, stopping of city services in those areas all for the purpose of bringing property values down making those areas ripe for gentrification. The project building seen in the opening of the TV show "Good Times" are all gone, the people are gone and now their are high rent buildings and condos there with Starbucks and white people jogging with exotic dogs. It's the same thing happening all over this nation with places like Brooklyn NY being another example.
It's sad looking at the Southside today because it doesn't show the life that was once vibrant in those areas. My family lived from 56th and Normal through 62nd and Normal from the late sixties through the mid 70's. Today that area is a vacant lot bought up by the railroads for pennies all of my childhood memories wiped away by bulldozers and surrounded by chainlink fences. 😢
My brother it is the same here in north St. Louis, you hit the nail on the head
So you're saying the Democrat party, who has been in control of the "government" in Chicago for over 100 years, is responsible?
The entire nation should read what you herein have so well encapsulated.
@edwardthames9003
I wish he would have shown the two parks within Englewood. (Hamilton Park and Ogden Park) They are still GREEN and various programs are hailed within them. In fact, Ogden Park has a new outdoor area/field were youth football and soccor ⚽ games are played. He was just driving through alleys and certain blocks. Does Englewood need help? Yes, and many are trying to improve it.
@@autumnsmom1117 yeah I think Ogden Park is the one right across the street from Sherwood where the field house is. We used to go in the field house for tumbling and other activities. I learned to read well at Sherwood and I recall being excited when the mobile book truck came to the school. There I got to read the newest Curious George books and others. I even recall one time that an African King came to visit the school and we took a picture for the newspaper in front of the school with him. After fifth grade we went to John Hope for sixth through eighth grade. I know I'm rambling but the video brought back so many memories.
That 500mil that went to illegals could've definitely helped the Westside & Southside of chicago!!!
SAY IT AGAIN DOG!!!!!!
Over a million was slated for Englewood, and it was given to guess who?
No amount of money would help those areas.
@geckster109 I have to agree with that!!! it's been that way too long.... Fix it up and it'll get torn right back down again...
Residents of that area have to want to do something. Throwing money at the problem is not going to solve anything.
Bro really pulled in the parking lot to show us the graffiti off 59th 💀
Why didn't he show the gentrification in Englewood? Lots of whites snatching up homes DIRT CHEAP and renovating.
I’m from the Midwest, Milwaukee to be exact. Milwaukee is an hour away from Chicago. My opinion, the whole Midwest is dying. I use to go to Chicago, it’s not anything I’m interested in anymore. A lot of people are still fleeing from up there.
Chicago north side and some of the west and south sides are doing just fine.
All for the same reason - and if I have to say what that reason is YT will suspend me for hate speech. 🤬
Miluakee is notjing like chicago bro..not even a sketch
@harveylewis4201 Milwaukee, babe! I miss that city but we had to go.
@@rujaloveyoUSon exactly! You knew the deal!
If you guys notice there is no trash in front of these homes or even in the alleyway i’m from chicago don’t judge the people of the abandoned homes that’s a government issue even though houses are not the best those residents take pride in their homes you didn’t see any trash what does that mean ❤
That means it's another black neighborhood full of good people that's been targeted by another racist local Government.this happens nation wide in all the red line communities this RACIST country forced black people to move into.🤬🤬🤬 One day God will correct all .
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Englewood Raised.... I have lived on several of these blocks mainly 67th and Sangamon Damn the Area looks so desolate now, All the big brick buildings were once full of people, Life & memories the footage Howards Chicken shack on 69th street had some good food. Good times & bad times Englewood helped mold me taught me how to survive & live anywhere
By any chance did you know the Porter family on 67th and Laflin? I've been trying to reconnect with Early's family
I’m from Chicago and from the 100s on down to the low end some areas are run down because there is no Jobs in the areas , the economic infrastructure in these areas are bad and it caused alot of poverty and run down buildings because people can’t really afford to put alot of money back into their properties.
CharlieBo...please show some corner street signs when you're filming. It would give all of us a better idea where you are. Thank you, and lets be careful out there!
He’s perfectly fine driving around i have to drive through englewood every day to get to and from work
@@bjive5900doesn’t mean englewood is safe lmao i be goin thru there often too. Just as any location mind your business if u not from round there
I’m pretty sure you still wouldn’t know where tf he is unless your looking on google maps Lol how about you go drive thru?? 😂
@@sowhat3245 I've been though the South side of Chicago many times, picking up and delivering freight. So, I know what to do and not to do south of 31st St., and east of Cicero Ave. .
63rd and Halstead is the center of Englewood @@jamesnelson6980
Despite being a high crime area (far from the worst) of Chicago, Englewood is a close knit community.
Great video Charlie Bo. Wish you had driven by 63rd and Wallace. That's the sight of the infamous Murder Castle. A post office sits on that spot today.
Never heard of murder castle. Have to look it up
@@fleurmartin it can be Googled. It happened in the 1890s. Chicago was hosting the World's Fair. A man named Midget built a non descript building at 63rd and Wallace. Inside was a chamber of horrors. The were sound proof rooms, an acid vat, a dissection room and others. I think he roughly killed about 8 women. He fled Englewood. The building burned soon after. A post office stands on it's spot today.
@@peterdelestrez8880 They don't know how many women were killed there. Remember, the woman that Midget bought the building from, suddenly came up missing. Many women came up missing during that time, NEVER to be heard from again. Legend has it, that some parts of the killing chambers are still in the basement.
Lots of hispanics are buying those broken down houses and fixing them up especially by Sherman Park(MoeTown) in englewood my neighbors used to be all black now the whole hood is almost all hispanic and with the migrants coming in englewood is gonna be more hispanic in the coming years
TRUMP COMING ALL THESE PEOPLE WILL BE DEPORTED AS MANY AS THEY CAN
ITS A RECOKING COMING TOME TO BE AMERICAN.REBUILD OUR COUNTRY FIRST.WE MUST DEMAND CHANCE OR WE WILL MAKE HAPPEN.
Only happiness I saw was at 9:37 when the dogs playin
Il governo americano dovrebbe aiutare il suo popolo😢e non pensare le altre nazioni😮 non si governa così
you are a hundred percent right but its all by design
Englewood; a place of such wonderful dreams and terrifying nightmares.
3:13 it was nice to see the 4 ladies with their Bibles looking to preach Jesus at least ... wtf happened there? talk about dystopia
@@soniajulie6465
Not ‘what’ happened, but ‘who’.
@@soniajulie6465 Englewood was a blue collar working class community. In the 70s factories 🏭 started closing, moved out of the city and country. People lost jobs. Businesses started leaving the community also. The 80's saw the crack epidemic and people really started leaving in droves.
@@autumnsmom1117 In the 80's & 90's our area was full of People, life & fun it was the hood but plenty people had businesses, People started to leave in the early 2000's
Thought it was 1980's NYC with all that writing on the wall😂, WORD!
Anyone notice the large amount of vacant lots? They are the result of buildings being torn or burned down either by the city's "Urban Renewal" of the 1960s, or the MLK riots of April 1968. Now these lots have 50-year-old trees growing on them or just being overgrown.
Yes, those lots are only in the black community. Hispanic communities are wall to wall single family homes. Same with business, wall to wall business in the hispanic community. Billions invested into the hispanic community and nothing for the black....
That might be a stretch. Imma take that with a grain of salt
Chicago has policy of tearing down vacant and dilapidated houses. This has been going on for decades. The 68 riot primarily took place in the west side
Wow! Can you imagine how many migrants we could house there!
DESTROYERS
2:44 soon to be discontinued Shotspotter microphone array on the light pole. Thanks Brandon for keeping the city safe.
Is the city planning on getting rid of the Shotspotters in approximately 6 months ?
@@Hoosier-u4w Sometime after the convention in August.
@@skip686suppose to be gone in June I believe
Tbh when has shot spotter worked. Just more money coming from tax payers
Y'all love to blame the blk mayor!!! Crime was much worse when Daley a white mayor was in play!!
Chicago Southside home of Richard Wrights unforgettable protagonists Bigger Thomas from Native Son hands down one of THE GREATEST works of literature of the 20th century a supreme achievement! 👑👑👑
Great video, Charlie, I love these, thank you! (Also, every time you go into those narrow little alleys, I'm always so worried that you'll be jumped and murdered... even though, if that had happened, we would obv. never see the video. But pls stay safe!)
Kitty alert @2:36. I hope someone is feeding him. 🐱
Feeding himself
Imagine actually believing that being a gangster makes you cool. Lol
Come thru in the summer late afternoons and nights, it’s going to be different footage. I’m Chicago born and raised and summers get wild out here
So what?
Englewood is changing a lot. For the better. There are a lot of new developments that are coming, and being built currently. Show the nice parts of Englewood! Not all of it is run down.
I live in englewood and ain’t nothing being built really
It's changing cause the mexicans buying the properties and the new arrivals they are cleaning yall mess up and pushing yall out to the suburbs
The camera footage is phenomenal
A nice place to live. Hope you find a house there
I resided at 6831 s carpenter st back in the early sixties and the neighborhood was nice and all the buildings were kept up. The building that i resided in is still there and looks good.i would like to buy it for memories i am retired and relocated to Blytheville Arkansas.
i love these videos. thanks always relaxing
Verdade
A place reflects whats inside of the people
Such a depressing looking place, with many depressed and unhappy people. Nobody wants to help this place, not even the people who live here. I seriously do not see it getting “better”, hard to imagine any big corporations or businesses moving in anytime soon neither.
You sound dumb
You need to speak with individuals who live in this area. Yes, this area needs help, and there are many within this community who are helping. When resources are not properly allocated to certain areas, this is the result.
Bullshit. People are helping while you complain on the internet. You can get out here and help, otherwise your input isn't needed
Shut up!!!
LOW VIBRATION LOW FREQUENCY MASCULINE ENERGY, WHAT'S THE CAUSE? WE SEE THE EFFECT,, ALL APART OF THE PROGRAM OF GENOCIDE ✔️
Next time you’re in Englewood, you should stop at Kusanya Cafe on 69th & Green. One of the best coffee shops in the city, in my opinion.
Is it black owned? And is it quiet with no hip hop playing? Seriously i want to know. Once in awhile I like to go to coffehouses thats not *$. With good customer service
@@fleurmartin I think a white guy owns it. It’s a very nice, low-key atmosphere and the workers there are all really friendly. The prices can’t be beat either.
@@saulgood8229 Thanks!
I used to live in Englewood on 65th Racine from '91 to '93 right across from Ogden Park and it was rough,alot been going on since we left there
Anyone else notice how there's so much more litter on the south side compared to the north side?
I avoid alleys as much as possible when I'm in the city, be careful. That's one area you don't want a flat tire in.
Did the movie Fugitive shoot some scenes around there?
I personally do t think so. But not sure. Pullman area defi atley. I think i lmow rmthe scene you mean. When he lived in the bsmnt. Or when they foumd the black guy and the girl together. Good moviw
Cook County hospital and I think the westside...
@@SVGIN I really liked the hospital scene. Anybody who was ever a patient there could tell that was no set.
Yes they did!
The Fugitive did some scenes further south as well. 111-115th, near Cottage Grove.
Thats my old house at the 3:51 mark. The red and white one. 5745 S. Emerald
Man I miss how it used to be round there. We used to be able to walk ANYWHERE and was comfortable around there. 59th Always!
Thank you for this CHarlie, stay safe, you are a treasure!❤
I'm from Chicago, but i haven't lived there for many years, watching this is depressing, they need to Clean It Up, it can be done.
Where are we going? If it's easier to infiltrate foreign countries with the help of political intrigues and military bases around the world than to put things in order in your backyard? Where have the funds from depleted resources gone? The decline of hegemony.
That's a dangerous neighborhood right there
One of Chicago most dangerous hood
So rough and scary 😮
Anytime I remember this I always think of Durk 😢
Lil Durk, Chief Keith, ECT.
Jeez... even the trees are un happy there... City is lacking leadership.
It's winter bro wtf 😂
Hey bro you need to do one on Saginaw Michigan on the Eastside
U ain't go on lowe? 63rd? Normal? Halsted? Garfield?
Right 64 parnell 63 normal he dont ride down nun of them block's shit ride pass Englewood shool at least
@@alposingleton5744 he ain't gonna go thru the trenches...I thought fasho I'd see the old quick stop on 66th and Halsted across the street from spirits
This is where I grew up in the 60's and 70's. My Mom lived there until 2005.
Miles Davis 'On The Corner' soundtrack needed.
❤
Ain't nothing but heroes and fallen soldiers over there the neighborhood is absolutely legendary the city government the city municipalities does not care about the conditions of my community voting is a joke politics is a joke I swear when and if I'm able to do it I'm going to give back to my community😢😢😢
Another banger!
What a horrible, depressing place. Stay safe.
GOTTA GIVE IT TO YOU BRO YOU REALLY BE "SPINNING THE BLOCK" IN SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOODS ON EARTH FR FR 💯
How ironic I was just over there by 56th & union yesterday and he drive past 56th and union threw that alley going towards Halsted 😮
I really don't care how bad people try to make my city out to be. I love Chicago. There are cities with true hell holes, but i get it this give everyone a chance to look down on something while ignoring their shit. Pitiful
The sad thing with the shortage of affordable housing so many of those boarded up buildings could be rehabbed or at least torn down. All of this is intentional. You have alot of absentee owners who get to write off the taxes on these properties and leave them looking like this and it makes the whole community look bad. But there are some non-profits trying to rehab homes for home ownership its just that its so many abandoned properties.
What is up with all the garbage on the vacant lots, is this where the city dumps all it's trash
I just heard a report on a Chicago news youtube channel (one of the networks) that Engelwood's property values have increased.
It's sad to see how deteriorated is Englewood. Like there is no hope of improving.
The 70's is when things started going to shit here!
City does not invest here. Still building skyscrapers downtown.
No shops, no convenience stores, no restaurants, no neighborhood Pubs, no CVS, Walgreens, gas stations. everything the rest of us take for granted. So sad.
Crime. Why open up a business and be robbed blind and shot? That's why they can't have nice things.
There is a Walgreens on 63rd St South Halsted Parkway, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and other shops, as well as gas stations that were not shown. In addition, two parks are within the Englewood Community. Ogden Park and Hamilton Park. Factories started closing and leaving Chicago as well as the Country by the 70s, with it came job loses. You really started seeing the decline by the 80s, with people moving out the community especially when the crack epidemic occurred.😔
@@autumnsmom1117 I wish they were shown. I stand corrected.
@@billkussmaul2940 No problem, I wish the videographer had shown more of the community. I hate seeing its decline as well. There used to be the largest shopping district second to downtown that was once located in Englewood. Now, Kennedy- King Community College is located where it once stood. If videographer had driven down Halsted St., 55th-75th as well as Racine, Ashland, Wentworth, 63rd, 67th, 69th, & 71st more things would have been shown. The community does need help, and you have RAGE (Residents Association Greater Englewood) and other organizations that are really trying to make a difference.
I read years ago, that a famous architect said; Chicago was like a women with a very beautiful face ,meaning the Loop/Downtown & a very ugly body , meaning areas of Chicago like this..
who owns all that vacant land and houses and how much is worth and who is next group to live there
City and private owned land. Hispanics.
Hispanics about to take over englewood I know it cause I fix houses and they are buying up everything
I can't believe I'm the first 🎉
I WONDER WHO IS DOING ALL THIS GRAFFITI NOWADAYS.
Beware the Tarantula heads!
Wait!...hold up!...I'm from 72nd & Halsted and their is no Englewood without Halsted St.
Whoever filming this must be from over there how they keep going around in circles without caring about consequence lbs iykyk
Chicago don't fix it's streets....unless you live near an alderman or you got the hook up
THAT'S MY MOFO HOOOD NO LOVE CITY BABYYYYY MY HEART BLEEDS FOR MY LAND I WISH I COULD REVAMP EVERY VYDOCK TO VACANT LOT...😢😢
Notice the trees. No leaves. Nothing growing.
All of Northern Illinois looks like this for at least 6 months out of the year.
Fall winter.. usually by October the trees are bare.
April almost May before it starts to green up again.
CURIOUS you show 12 blocks & Alleys on the South Side to get CLICKS. Have you done one on LINCOLN Park, WICKER Park, HYDE Park, South SHORE, The GOLD Coast, South LOOP, or DOWNTOWN? I didn't think so because that's where the Middle & Upper-CLASS PEOPLE LIVE, and it's BEAUTIFUL !!!
I feel for the homeless animals like cats and dogs - at the mercy of some of the people that dwell here 😢. I lived in a area like this once and took home a cat that was homeless.😢😢
Love the old blue Caddy at the beginning of the video!
I worked in Chicago subs for yrs as a union carpenter, revamping abandoned schools under the Obama no child left behind plan. Engl, S-Calumet, Gary. And so on. Also converted Wamu banks into Chase after they closed at 7pm till 4am. I bought a ten yr old chev expess van and left the windows down when parked. Shit was crazy as a 27yr white guy from a small rural town.
It's crazy we have money to give other countries but we cant invest here in are own country such a shame people need to stop voting for these people
For Centuries US has helped other countries while their own people suffer/live in poverty and don’t invest in "their own country."
Chicago is trying to house “the immigrants" they’ve allowed to come here But the homeless that have been here for YEARS remain homeless. Find/ provide housing and jobs for people that are from here First and then move on to the "immigrants!!"
Front yard spiked-top fences tell you all you need to know about the neighborhood.
What sets rome around these blocks ?
Roam
Went to Paul Robeson H.S and graduated in 1984, been in Englwood since 1981, parents still there on 71st & Emerald Ave. Bonified Southsider
Hopefully the migrants will revive this community to see more new houses and businesses opening
should have made GTA here
I'm surprised Rock Star hasn't. "Grand Theft Auto: New Madrid" (after the New Madrid fault line that runs through southern Illinois), like what they did with LA and the San Andreas fault.
The only other place that can compare to this is Compton
-never seen Newark, New Jersey
@@bob-mb6ub that and Compton.
Compton not even the worst looking city in the LA area. For people that don't know Compton was made famous from the 80's and 90's Gangsta Rap Movies. It was worse back then just like everywhere else but never as bad as they portrayed. Compton is not even on the list of the worst looking cities, that would be places like Philly, Baltimore. Compton is a suburb of LA and it's about 75 to 80% Mexican.
@@williemoore756 Compton was as bad the rappers portrayed just like Harlem and the Bronx. But ya, Philly is the dirtiest looking city in the country.
Compton? 😂, you must be frozen in time. This ain’t 1991.
It must b dat bad on da souf side were r the children playn
dork
-30 IQ comment
You should play elvis presley song in the getto
Oh u brave brave driving through alleys 😱🥴
I'm concerned about flat tires from nails or other issues that can immobilize the driver and car in those neighborhoods.
We appreciate your concern. The best thing that you can do is avoid those neighborhoods if at all possible
What's the point of you doing this? Only our people love to show the worse of ourselves!! I never see you drive through a middle class Black neighborhood!! Smh!!!
Hard to believe I spent the first 6 years of my life in that trash of a neighborhood. My family was part of the great white flight by moving to the burbs in the late 50's-early 60's.
I worked in Englewood dozens if not hundreds of times, throughout the south & west side, north side, and downtown, all throughout Chicago and suburbs installing commercial laundromat equipment in laundromats, nursing homes, car washes, animal shelters, apartment complexes you name it, wherever there's a washer or dryer needed good chance I've been there. The coolest job for me was the job up at Hallas Hall, the facility where the Chicago Bears practice. I met Brandon Marshall and came across Matt Garza in the parking lot with his foot in a cast when I went out to grab some tools. I got to talk to him for a couple of minutes and got his autograph, despite the owner of the company telling us not to approach players for an autograph 😂 I guess that part is irrelevant especially since Hallas Hall is in the suburbs. My point is the media paints a certain picture, there's always that scare tactic. Englewood probably isn't the safest place, especially at night. As a basic white guy with no gang affiliation, I never had any issues with anyone in a couple of decades working throughout it. Cool video man I'm going to subscribe to your channel.
If you vote for the same mayor after how much they ruined chicago, you should be ashamed
It's still Old World Building in that part of Chicago
CharlieBo, you need to use your platform to get into these hoods to try to steer some of these guys especially the younger ones out of that life. Even if you reach one soul your mission is complete.
Youre driving by many suffering people who need help.
Hopefully his drives show the neighborhood conditions to those that want, can and are paid to take care of these cities.
😢Be careful going in the alley,it's really dangerous in Englewood, I moved my son,away from there.
Am I looking at parts of war-torn Ukraine or Chicago?
These people like living like this
I cant believe what they did to that part of Chicago, I'm born and raised there, I left at the age of 43. I will be 81 in January, I miss my home town,but I can't gi back, too many bad memories, caused by bad people, I love seening thu, thats what I miss. Raised on Southside off 47 and Federal, oh back in the day, before all that destruction and depravity