SUBURBAN CHICAGO: Ugly, Decaying and Dying | Riverdale, IL

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We bought our 1st home in Riverdale in the late 1990s. We were the 3rd blk family on the block. When Chicago shipped out the "displaced" folk from the projects, it went to chit overnight. Nobody wanted to fight to save the neighborhood so we sold our house in 2003. I will never live anywhere in the south suburbs ever again.

Thanks for the hard work getting this vid ready!

Another eye popping fantastic job Chris! Growing up in Chicagoland the Illinois high tax structure was already well underway in the 1960s. Add in political corruption and fierce headwinds are present. Being in a large metro area and a relatively favorable tax-business climate with fairly clean government can do a lot of good as I see here in Central Indiana. I admire your fortitude and honesty showing not just desolation but areas where there is an attempt to hang onto a decent neighborhood. In addition to the recommendations stated here I recommend on the Indiana playlist Marion Indiana where Chris discusses a mayor with a vastly different philosophy trying to turn around a hurting city.

What a shame. Housing could be rescued, but no jobs, no buyers. My wife, now 75, grew up in and had family in Roseland area. That is 127 th St. and Halsted and this is 144 th and Halsted. They had to leave around 1975. I was back there a few years ago on Halsted street and went past a three story building wth a store on first with a recessed door way. A man was standing there drinking from a paper bag. Never would have seen that before, InterNational Harvester had a forge shop that went for blocks, now gone. No employers, no jobs, all goes to pot.

That apartment building on the right at 7:40 is where my uncle use to live in the early 2000s. One of the apartments on 142nd and Tracy 21:42 is my late grandma (my uncle's mom) use to live at that time. At 28:22 I use to go that UnderCarey daycare.

What needs to be replaced are the people living there that have no vested interest to keep care of their homes.

10 years ago on May 5th my daughter's father was unalived here. It has been devastating for her life. RIP Gregory Taylor Jr.

I was born in Chicago in 1957. We moved to Riverdale when I was 4 years old and we left for Mchenry in the mid 60s. The brick house on the corner @21:10 was were we lived. I still has awnings on the front. When we moved there, our house and the one next door were the only ones on the block, the rest was all field. I watched them build all those apartments! The workmen gave me some of the crates the bathtubs came in and scraps of wood to build my first fort. Riding through the park with my bike I was racing my Dad home, he was in the car on School street. I was too busy looking at him and ran in to a tree. Totaled my bike and got banged up. Never made that mistake again! Thanks for this video!

Send the mayor of dolton over there to straighten it up lol 😂

Yet, another faantastic video Chris. Really enjoying your tours through Illinois, my home state.

Wow thank you for an incredible and sad walk down memory lane. It was so awesome seeing my old apartment where I grew up, my old school, the sledding hill, the walks and bike rides I would go on to the library, candy store and my best friends house in the late 80s early 90s. Sad to see it so dilapidated now, but unfortunately expected in that community. It was a once great place to live and grow up

The Pacesetter properties are kind of strange. There's maybe 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 townhomes that look reasonably well cared for just surrounded by endless blight. But you can't just tear down the blighted properties without screwing over the people who live there, because it's all interconnected and sharing walls. It's no wonder it's so slow to make changes and get it torn down.

Great job!

You didn't mention the Ivanhoe area off School street and 144th? Beautiful English Tudor bungalows

❤ nice video, facts.

When the community loses working class nuclear families you get what you get.

Hey Chris, I drive through these towns, after you make a video of them to refresh my memory.

Born and raised in Chicago and it's suburbs left 40 years ago moved to Arizona, this video reminded me of why.

Yo Chris, nice video man. Have you ever thought about checking out Park Forest, Illinois?