As long as we're on the subject of Uptown's fast food venues, a reader alerted us to a rather intriguing hole in the window of the former KFC restaurant at Buena and Broadway.
Perhaps someone really had a hankerin' for Original Recipe and took out his frustrations on the window when he found no one's cooking there anymore? Or perhaps the Cuyler Boys gang has been getting rambunctious.
Looks like a bullet hole to me.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, I think anything south of Montrose, is paradise found.
All the urine-soaked ugliness is north of Montrose, in the real heart of Shiller-Town.
There is SO much potential up here, for turning things around.
....just to add, starting with Wilson Yard.
ReplyDeleteIt's ironic that the very soil unearthed, seemed to be toxic, in the dust the construction site was creating.
Good parallel to our Alderman's track record.
Anytime some one says "North of Montrose sucks ass" I get sad in the pants.
ReplyDeleteSheridan Park is beautiful! Streets lined with massive trees, old architecture, flower laden front yards, old school lamp posts, healthy grass. Maybe North of Montrose West of Broadway, but I'll be damed if Sheridan Park is bollocks!
That is what makes this gangbang shit so strange. Dudes shooting at each other in such a nice area (compared to other gang turf). Walking around Sheridan Park is like walking around some of the areas in Lakeview. Sometimes I feel like I live in the Twilight Zone, beautiful but dangerous. Reminds me of some of my old girlfriends.
Some people buy flats of flowers, others buy a boxes of bullets.
F-ing bullets!
Sunnova crap!!!!
ReplyDeleteI ment.......
*East of Broadway, not West
*Someone, not some one
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As a founding member of CSI Uptown I can saythat is certainly a bullet hole.
ReplyDeleteAesthetically much of Sheridan Park is better looking than Buena Park. I say that as a BP resident since Bush was Prez...........da first one.
Actually before him too, but the line is funnier dat way.
The buildings in Sheridan Park tend to have just a little more detail than some of there BP cousins.
That being said the entire Uptown Neighborhood is light years ahead of what it was back in the 70's.
No thanks to Helen Shiller who would have stopped the change if she could have. The inexorable tide of economic tide is a tough thing to fight. Perhaps she should call herself Helen Canute and rage against the waves in Lake Michigan.
A wake up call to those south of Montrose that think they are in Lakeview and not Uptown!
ReplyDeleteAnd if Wilson Yard gets built, our neighbors in the bucolic neighborhoods of Buena Park and Sheridan Park will have shootings like this on a regular basis.
I hope they understand that Montrose is not a walled gate that protects them from the violence those of us in the heart of Uptown experience. It will only get worse for them too!
Isn't the cutoff between Uptown and Lakeview Irving Park, not Montrose?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I always thought-- Irving Park divides Lakeview from Uptown. Buena Park and Sheridan Park, as neighborhoods of Uptown, are divided by Montrose.
ReplyDeleteAs for the original post, sure looks like a bullet hole to me. Why, why why? If you don't like the GD chicken, just don't eat there! No need to shoot it full of holes...oh, wait, that was just random gun fire.
yeah, irving park, not montrose
ReplyDeleteNah, that looks more like a plain ol' thrown-rock hole. Bullet holes, as far as I have seen (and don't ask me how I know) tend to stay closer to perfectly round.
ReplyDeleteBullet hole 1
Bullet hole 2
Bullet hole 3
But I could be wrong...
Buena Park, Sheridan Park, Clarendon Park, Margate Park, New Chinatown/Little Saigon, Andersonville Terrace and chunks of what realtors call Ravenswood are all real estate neighborhoods and just flowery ways to up sell Uptown
ReplyDeleteThink of them as subdivisions of Uptown, whose boundaries are Irving Park to the south, Ravenswoodto the west, Foster to the North and the lake to the east.
I live in the lovely Clarendon Park (North of Montrose, east of Broadway) area which I adore. Sure, its not as nice as our neighbors to the south, west and, okay, north too, but the architecture here too is nice and the streets are lined with trees. The neighbors are friendly. I have pride in my neighborhood and the sense of community that builds everyday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown,_Chicago
ReplyDeletehttp://www.uncchicago.org/2006/09/46th_ward_map.html
as you can see the 46th ward barely touches where Shiller lives but extends far down into lakeview, for those Buena Parkers who did not think they lived in Uptown.
Buena Park IS nicer than the rest of Uptown. Deal with it. I can count on one hand the number of "gang-bangers" I've seen around my block in the last three years. But yes, we do deal with some NOMO spillover, and have some problems of our own (Cuyler and Broadway, anyone?).
ReplyDeleteBut Lakeview IS nicer yet, away from the Hotel Chateau and Gill Park Co-op, that is. This area is worse than Buena Park.
Am I supposed to be frightened by this "bullet hole"? I see crap like this all over the place.
That kind of begs the question: Just what number of bullet holes in windows are acceptable for a community to have?
ReplyDeleteNo one's bashing Buena Park, at least I don't think they are. It's just kind of weird to walk down any street and see bullet holes in windows--if that's what this is, and certainly many people perceive it to be exactly that.
Even weirder is when it's right next to a sign that says this is going to be a condo community. Not exactly good advertising for gracious living, in Buena Park or anywhere else, for that matter.
UptownR, yes Buena Park is nicer than SOME parts of Uptown, but not as nice as others (take a look around the entire area not just Sheridan, portions of Broadway and certain adjoining streets). If you aren't seeing gang activity, you aren't looking hard enough. There were just shots fired south of Montrose last night!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the violence bleeds throughout much of the ward.