I was in Rogers Park Saturday and Sunday, and stopped at the Morse El stop both days.
On Saturday the ladies were out working and being watched over. There were some sales taking place from a van parked along Glenwood Ave. It didn’t seem a good time to be walking around with cameras.
The scene was calmer when I returned on Sunday. The main attraction was Jack and Avenue passing out flyers for a new laundromat, and doing that job as well as I’ve seen it done. I stopped for a chat with them.
Avenue had a lot to say, mostly about the police busting the wrong people and ignoring others. Part of his beef was that there were so many police around the Morse El, and too many of them were undercover.
The video has a voice-over track, since I screwed up the sound. Sorry Jack. Sorry Avenue. Thanks anyway.
For a better take on the action around the Morse El stop, visit The Broken Heart of Rogers Park.
Thanks, Joe.
The best solution to the “crime”?
Tear down those 1-2 story storefronts near the L stop and replace them with 5-10 story residential buildings with ground level retail.
Of course, I’m sure some community group has that area in a suspended state of animation and, with their vice around the Alderman’s balls, will never allow such a horrible tragedy to happen
Uhhh…that’s “Vise” not “Vice.”
I’m curious about just what times on Sat. and Sun. you were out scoping the “ladies” etc. I shudder to think that Sunday morning, a time for most people to be in church and/or sleeping off the excesses of Saturday night, would be prime business hours for “Vice.”
Local Realtor,
I was there the same time of day both Saturday and Sunday – about 3:30 in the afternoon.
The Broken Heart of Rogers Park – this guy is pretty agrressive, but it will take a lot more than him to get in that alderman’s head.
Local Realtor:
You obviously aren’t aware of the particular version of the word vice that I was using. I meant “vice”, not “vise”. Here’s the definition:
“A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise)”
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vice
OK, you win; I guess I was OD’ing on Eric Zorn’s grammar quiz on his blog this week.