We’re always on the lookout for good neighborhood sites with news feeds to scan for our Chicago Real Estate News page. Today we found Our Urban Times, a site that covers Bucktown, Wicker Park and nearby neighborhoods.
The first item at Our Urban Times reported on residents’ recent success in abating the decades-old practice of prostitutes working the stretch of North Ave between Ashland Ave and Milwaukee Ave. An earlier article reported that Milwaukee pimps were dropping off the working girls and noted:
In the 1980s residents in the vicinity of Wood and North patrolled the same area… Now the prostitutes and their pimps are more “high class.”
In this video drive along North Ave with Joe Askins and Mark Boyer, both ex-YoChicagoans, you can see the stretch of North Avenue in question and its easy access to the Kennedy Expressway.
Don’t they mean “Klass”?
Ah reminds me of the days of yore when the Home Depot right there was open 24 hours a day. I believe that was the first Home Depot in da great City of Chicago.
You could stop at Home Depot for some material needed for a renovation project and then quickly dart across the street to play with the horizontal entertainment specialists.
The only thing that stretch of North Avenue needed then was a 24 hour drug store that would sell antibiotics without a prescription.
Reminds me of a time over 20 years ago when after a weekend night of drinking I went into the Golden Nugget? Diner on Clark just south of Diversey. Some “working T-Girl” asked me if I wanted “a date” and I told him/her “you can’t afford me”. I nearly got my ass kicked that night as said “T-Girl” let out some type of “war cry” to summon reinforcements. Discretion being the better part of valor I dashed into the aforementioned restaurant to the cheers of my friends and the amused looks from the cops eating on their break.
Alas, the Home Depot is no longer open 24/7, but the hookers remain. I would have hoped the internet would have reduced the number of street hookers to a negligible level. It’s unfortunate when a neighborhood has to put up with that disruption.
It’s even more unfortunate that we’re importing hookers from Milwaukee.
I guess the “buy local” crowd in Bucktown and Wicker Park doesn’t rent local.
Maybe they are internet challenged there or have spouses who check their cookies?