<p>gahhhh, this ****es me off so much. It's terrible. It makes me sad that people around chicago can be so full of hate.</p>
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<p>I am one of those many. For me, a rural college environment would have been stifling for me, and I enjoy the escape an urban environment offers. Is it for everybody? Certainly not. But for me, the tradeoff was more than a good decision.</p>
<p>A U Chicago online campus safety alert again yesterday:</p>
<p>University</a> of Chicago News Office | Campus Crime Update</p>
<p>"At 12:49 a.m., Friday, November 23, on Kimbark Avenue near 57th Street, two men were walking when two other men came from behind, displayed handguns, demanded and took the victims’ valuables, and fled. Police are investigating."</p>
<p>A bad week that won't end.</p>
<p>I live in Chicago also. My D went to a magnet academy for gifties in Hyde Park for 7th and 8th grade. The Chicago school system dropped busing the gifties when she was in 8th grade. She had to take public bus & el train and sometimes walk. 3 hour daily commute for this 8th grader. I taught her and she learned how to handle crazies, people following her and other assorted challeges of the city. Like when Cubs games let out dont let a drunken guy stand next to you cuz he might puke on you. I taught her when being stalked or followed to go run in traffic cuz people have cellphones and will call police to report a crazie in the street. But if you talk to the person following you people will think you are having a domestic dispute. The D managed to survive Hyde Park.
We live in the Loyola University neighborhood and its no Wonderbread. We have to survive here as well. Up here we have this "gooning" thing happening.</p>