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Learn to play guitar and convert them to liberalism.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2016 18:25 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 07:46 |
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Chicago has a couple of cool communities that were designed for people to live, work and play in them. They needed to be downtown for reasons but were built in the era of White Flight so they were designed to be isolated patches in the larger city. Plus it was supposed to provide a solution to Chicago weather. No idea how they actually turned out. Since I haven't heard much about them, my guess is that they were much more integrated into the city than originally intended.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2016 04:06 |
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Are you talking about spots like this weird neighborhood bounded by Polk, State, Roosevelt, and Clark? It's almost a gated community; difficult to find your way in except by two or three small entrances. The entire west side of it is walled off, the south side is bounded by an overpass, the east side by dense housing, and the north side by a former train station turned into a failed mall. I feel like it was a white-flight era fortress, but I can't find a history of it. The Near South Side has a bunch of them, from what I understand. There were a bunch of other ones too. The really iconic buildings on the waterfront near President-Elect Trump Tower were also designed to be communities like that. The two towers where the bottomish level is a parking garage and you can see the cars.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2016 03:23 |