Chicago residents: What neighborhoods have you lived in?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I’m no longer a Chi resident, but in the three years I lived there, I populated:

  1. The O’Hare neighborhood (corporate housing)
  2. Logan Square
  3. Uptown
2

In the city itself, I’ve lived in Edgewater and Hyde Park…strangely, on the 5500 block north, and the 5500 block south.

3

Just Belmont-Central for my first 18 years.

4
  1. Boystown/Wrigleyville - Rented
  2. Different part of Wrigleyville - Rented
  3. Roger’s Park - Clark/Howard - Condo.

Then we left Chicago. I still miss food, the used bookstores, the people, and the Lakefront. I don’t miss the traffic at all though.

5

We rented in Wrigleyville for a year, then in Lincoln Park for a year. We moved to Florida for a few years, and now we’ve bought in Lincoln Park/Clybourn Corridor.

6

Edgewater - Rented 1 year
Old Irving - Rented 2 years
Lincoln Square - Currently renting

7

I lived in Chicago as a boy, in the 60s.
Logan Square/Drake Avenue.
Maywood
Des Plaines (SP?)

8

Hyde Park and Uptown. I did not like Hyde Park at all and only lived there because I was going to school in the area. Absolutely nothing to do and all of my friends experienced some sort of unpleasantness during our year there (stolen cars, snatched purses, getting randomly beat on).

9

That’s so funny, because I lived in Hyde Park when I was your age, and I loved it, and right before that, I lived really close to where you live now, and didn’t like it at all. Although the difference there might have been that it was some years back now, and I think Uptown/Edgewater have developed a lot since I was there. Wonder if Hyde Park has gone downhill. I agree it’s not a hotspot in terms of stuff to do, but I had a car and a lot of friends on the north side, so that’s where I went on a lot of weekend nights.

10

There’s not a whole lot to do in Uptown, but it’s close to Lakeview and Lincoln Square. Hyde Park is just so isolated. I mean, it wasn’t TERRIBLE, but all of us were very relieved to move away after graduation.

Uptown has its sketchy areas, but on the whole I feel a lot safer here than I did in Hyde Park.

11
  1. Back of the Yards
  2. Archer Heights
  3. Evanston (I practically consider it a northern extension of Chicago)

I actually quite like Hyde Park, but I tend to like university areas in general. Uptown is the more happening place to be these days and it’s much closer to other hotspots of Chicago’s social scene. And there’s some fantastic food and groceries in Uptown, which is reason enough for me to want to live there.

12

My brother and I lived in Logan Square for around six months, and I never had my name on the lease, but I used to crash in Wicker Park pretty often back before it got gentrified as much as it is today.

13

Sounds like Hyde Park hasn’t changed much since when I lived there (1990-1994). Between the dead body found on our front lawn a week after I moved in and the drive-by shooting across the street a few weeks before I moved away, I found it pretty grim. The breathtaking in-your-face racism from the locals was just the icing.

14

Rogers Park, east and west.
Lincoln Park (when I was really small and the area was pretty crappy)
Uptown
Harlem and Lawrence ( not sure what that area is called but I did not like it)
Evanston
Northfield - current

15

Isn’t that Harwood Heights?

I’ve lived in Rogers Park, Park Ridge and Jefferson Park. Park, Park, Park.

16

Another Park person here. We lived in scary East Rogers Park (Farwell and Ashlandish, Morse Red line stop) from '90 to '97, then moved to the even scarier Albany Park (Lawrence & Kedzieish, Kedzie Brown line stop) and have lived here since '97. We love it here, but then, we don’t look like Gentrifying Yuppies with invisible “Carve Me Up Then Use Me For Shooting Practice Because I’m Going to Fuck Up Your Neighborhood” signs on our backs.

17

I’ve lived in Roger’s Park (where I am now), Edgewater (right near Moody’s) and I grew up on the North Shore (the near North suburbs.)