The Ranger had a caller yesterday who was mentioning how he believes the Sox park is in a crappy neighborhood where he fears crime. The Ranger disagreed and said that he was never afraid of being in that area even late at night and he said there were more shootings in the Wrigleyville area than around Comiskey Park. I'd like to hear some thoughts from Sox fans and non-Sox fans. Is the Ranger right that the area around the park is safe or is the callers's claim more accurate?

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Its not dangerous to go to Sox games.

The area surrounding the Cell is a worse neighborhood than the one surrounding Wrigley.

I refuse to go south of Madison

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I wear a bullet proof vest under my Cubs jersey every time I go to a Sox game.

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Correct. The ballpark is not dangerous at all. But if you make a wrong turn you can be in a bad area quickly.

A couple years ago my brother made a wrong turn leaving the ball park and had a cinder block thrown through his back glass. Just thankful no one was sitting back there.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Yeah, Lake View is a fuckin' deathtrap. I'll never forget the gangland shootings that went down outside the Ann Sather at Clark and Belmont.

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Wouldn't the fact that there are more people in the Wrigleyville area automatically make for more shootings as there are more people to shoot?

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Did the destruction of the Robert Taylor Homes help the Sox fans feel safer?

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Where were those at? I have only been a fan of the Sox since August of 2005.

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Good of you to make it thru that near collpase in August and Sept!!

Haha! The other side of the Dan Ryan from the park.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Terry's Peeps lives in the area. That mere fact means it's a very dangerous neighborhood.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Damn straight.

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During my 4 hour adventure through Chicago in 2009, one of my dozen or so attempts to find the entrance to the Hyatt on the river led me to taking the highway all the way down to the cell...during my time driving around to find a way back on the interstate, I never felt any more unsafe than I would have in other areas...

But isn't that what going to the city is all about (i.e. being afraid of black people)?

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

i'm very afraid of black people...thanks for reminding me Mini Ditka

This family figured out a way to be safe around the Cell:

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Lotta Chinese people near the 'cell...

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

Drivin' their Toyotas and Hyundais...

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...the fuck?

Someone threw a 30lb block of concrete?

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If you park in a lot at the cell, you never walk in a neighborhood anyways.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

The neighborhood around U.S. Cellular Field is relatively good. There are bad sections, just like you would find around other stadiums built in downtown areas. I think that the United Center neighborhood was much more dangerous to walk around until a few years back.

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Ask LOHo about this?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Check his blog, bro!

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I have an office almost right across the street. It sure is different than when I was a kid. But there are a lot of halfway houses in the neighborhood. A guy who they had staying at a Catholic one just west of me killed again this summer. I'm pretty sure George Ryan is a new neighbor at the one on Ashland and Monroe. I'm gonna see if I can buy him lunch at Wallace's Catfish Corner before he heads back to Kankakee.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I don't even drive on the Dan Ryan. What if my car breaks down in a "black" area?

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

that man turned out to be Michael Clark Duncan...and that is the rest of the story

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I'd say it's still a more dangerous an area.

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