Marquette Park (Intro)

Marquette Park: a presonal perspective. First independent video aired on WTTW Chicago

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[student0008]

I am a student doing research on Marquette Park and the NSPA. When was this footage taken?

[hadroid]

in MQP

[standtall67]

@gintas35 Just compare the crime statistics from when Marquette Park was mostly white to now. I was a driver for UPS and can show you many more than 2 buildings that are boarded up. How does it feel to live with blinders on?

[gintas35]

@standtall67 I am reading your post, at my home in Chicago Lawn (Marquette Park), and today couldn't be more peaceful. This afternoon I attended the convocation at the University of Chicago, where my cousin was graduating. On the ride home I did see boarded up buildings in other neighborhoods, but only 2 in Chicago Lawn: both on California Ave. north of 63rd St. Come on over I'll show you.

[standtall67]

@gintas35 Nice try. just go and look at the chicago pd crime stats and you will see the Marquette Park has one of the highest crime rates in the city. I was a delivery driver(UPS), and delivered through Marquett Park for many years and saw first hand the deterioration of the area. The burned out buildings, the spray painted garages, and the huge number of gangbangers. YOU are the one spreading lies.

[cutenu2]

@standtall67 Calling me the N word almost daiy is indicative of the racism I endured. Not just in my eyes. But also, I see your point about wanting to keep the area relatively crime free and clean, etc. It saddens me to see what the other people of color have done to the neighborhood. something they can not blame on the "white man", and lack of opportunity, etc. It's just sad.

[cutenu2]

@gintas35 First of all, I am not spreading lies. I am stating facts and my personal experience. I also did not mention anything about gang-bangers. You have your own experiences and I have mine. I am also not a racist by sharing my experience of growing up in that neighborhood. Nice try.

[cutenu2]

@standtall67 You proved my point. Hate breeds hate. Evil lurks in many places and in many shapes and forms.

[gintas35]

@cutenu2 STOP spreading lies about Marquette Park. I still live here, and have just returned from a bike ride from all around the Park. It is beautiful as ever, and I saw joggers, but not one gang-banger. The people on my block are nurses, military families, and teachers, all middle-class. We have a private security patrol. On Sundays Nativity BVM church is filled with new Lithuanian immigrants. We are a diverse community, not what you are attempting to malign in your racist comments.

[standtall67]

@cutenu2 I know, I lived at 6456 S Francisco for years. You say "hate breeds hate", yet in Chicago, 80% of the homicides are committed by blacks, 19% by Hispanics, 1% by whites and "other" races. So there is more "evil" in some places than there is in others.

[cutenu2]

Well, I'll put it like this, Chicago is a racist city and we all know that. It was always segregated. Hate breeds hate as your nasty choice of words has proven. But I still agree with you. I am disgusted at what the people who live there have done to my old neighborhood. Othersise beautiful homes turned into a ghetto hell. There is evil everywhere and people make their choices of whom they will serve.

[cutenu2]

I see your point, but what actually happned back then was after the first white family sold their home to a decent black family, realtors began what was called block-busting by using scare tactics to get people to sell their homes ASAP. Sad actually.