# Chicagoans! Neighborhood advice needed!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 25, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085 "2004-10-25T18:39:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085/21 "2004-10-28T00:49:22Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#):
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> It’s called, creatively enough, Afghan Restaurant.
> [http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/search/44509,0,1080975.venue](http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/search/44509,0,1080975.venue)
Huh. I’ve passed by there a lot and never noticed it. And I thought I’d tried all the restaurants along that corridor. (Speaking of which, has anyone been to Tel Aviv Pizza? I can’t recall if that’s the correct name, it was a Kosher pizza place…).
The new Morseland is nice.
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### Author:  [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085/22 "2004-10-28T01:12:34Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#):
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> Huh. I’ve passed by there a lot and never noticed it. And I thought I’d tried all the restaurants along that corridor. (Speaking of which, has anyone been to Tel Aviv Pizza? I can’t recall if that’s the correct name, it was a Kosher pizza place…).
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> The new Morseland is nice.
It’s only been there a few months. And no, I’ve never been to Tel Aviv Kosher Pizza - I tend to avoid the hardcore Orthodox places because I get lots of funny looks, as someone who “looks Jewish” but is enough of a brazen hussy to leave the house with head and arms uncovered, and wearing (horror of horrors!) pants. The one exception is Rosenblum’s Bookstore - they are rather more openminded.
And **Gaudere,** do you have a favorite Croatian place?
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### Author:  [@MrJones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJones)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085/23 "2004-10-28T17:12:57Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#):
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> You’re thinking of the Heartland Cafe and Jarvis St., respectively. I still love the Heartland, but wouldn’t want to bike or take the El there at night without some large and imposing-looking company. Although you may recall that even 10 years ago or so, our mutual karate black-belt friend who now lives in San Francisco volunteered as a Guardian Angel there one summer.
Ah, yes. I remember her. In the good ole’ days you could go there at night, although my sister did have a serial killer living in her building. Of course, that could happen anywhere.
> [@Eva Luna](#):
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> lived on Sheridan and Pratt in a grungy studio apartment about 12 years ago, and was burglarized. The cops and building management were less than sympathetic. That’s when I decided to get the hell out of there and moved to Andersonville.
I don’t think I was ever there. I had a studio on Columbia Street around 1989-1990, about a block from the lake and near Loyola. One night I was hauling my clothes down to the laundry and I discovered a homeless man had moved into a storage closet in the stairwell. Otherwise, that’s a nice area.
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### Author:  [@MrJones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJones)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085/24 "2004-10-28T17:18:07Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#):
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> You’re thinking of the Heartland Cafe and Jarvis St., respectively. I still love the Heartland, but wouldn’t want to bike or take the El there at night without some large and imposing-looking company. Although you may recall that even 10 years ago or so, our mutual karate black-belt friend who now lives in San Francisco volunteered as a Guardian Angel there one summer.
Ah, yes. I remember her. In the good ole’ days you could go there at night, although my sister did have a serial killer living in her building. Of course, that could happen anywhere.
> [@Eva Luna](#):
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> lived on Sheridan and Pratt in a grungy studio apartment about 12 years ago, and was burglarized. The cops and building management were less than sympathetic. That’s when I decided to get the hell out of there and moved to Andersonville.
I don’t think I was ever there. I had a studio on Columbia Street around 1989-1990, about a block from the lake and near Loyola. One night I was hauling my clothes down to the laundry and I discovered a homeless man had moved into a storage closet in the stairwell. Otherwise, that’s a nice area.
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### Author:  [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085/25 "2004-10-28T17:21:42Z")
> [@MrJones](#):
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> Ah, yes. I remember her. In the good ole’ days you could go there at night, although my sister did have a serial killer living in her building. Of course, that could happen anywhere.
There’s nothing wrong with going there at night now…
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085/26 "2004-10-28T20:22:23Z")
> [@](#):
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> And Gaudere, do you have a favorite Croatian place?
Actually, I haven’t been to one. I pass one on my jogs around the neighborhood (I think on Broadway) and look at the menu but I’ve never gone in. I keep meaning to someday.
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### Author:  [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagoans-neighborhood-advice-needed/271085/27 "2004-10-28T22:07:27Z")
> [@Gaudere](#):
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> Actually, I haven’t been to one. I pass one on my jogs around the neighborhood (I think on Broadway) and look at the menu but I’ve never gone in. I keep meaning to someday.
You talking about the one by the Dominick’s?
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