> While the University has emphasized the positive impact the projects will have on the local economy, some residents are concerned about rising rent and how much benefit will reach the community as opposed to investors.
What a non-issue. You have this massive development that's going to benefit your community and you're concerned because the people who actually contributed to it are going to benefit as well? The entitlement is just unreal.
I've lived on one of the streets mentioned in the article and its hard to overstate how shockingly dangerous the area is. Hearing gunshots was a regular occurrence. I knew someone who intervened in a robbery and was shot and nearly killed. I wouldn't allow friends to come visit after dark because I feared for their safety. If anything, the University and its police force should do more to rid the neighborhood of its anti-social element.
PopAlongKid 2 hours ago [-]
>I've lived on one of the streets mentioned in the article and its hard to overstate how shockingly dangerous the area is
Just anecdata. I had a family member living there for the six years, several addresses including their condo on Drexel Ave, one block from Cottage Grove (more or less the western boundary of campus proper). Their first child was born there, mom often went on long walks with the stroller to parks, etc with no problems. I visited several times, never had a problem. I walked to The Cove at night for a few beers, Sister Sledge on the jukebox was a conversation starter. Reggie's at the Beach (63rd St.) was a nice place, easy parking.
Every large city has "dangerous" areas, Hyde Park probably has fewer per capita than most.
lurk2 26 minutes ago [-]
> I've lived on one of the streets mentioned in the article and its hard to overstate how shockingly dangerous the area is.
The army used to train their trauma surgeons in Chicago because of the number of knife and gunshot wounds seen in the city's hospitals. From 2001 to 2021, there were about 1,000 more murders in the city than American soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
clcaev 5 hours ago [-]
Poverty, housing/employment, and generally, migration are hard topics.
The university has so many buildings in Hyde Park that they often make the decisions about which businesses are there or not. I've been happy with most of their choices recently; bringing in a Trader Joe, for example. However, some residents have differing opinions.
FuriouslyAdrift 4 hours ago [-]
It's not far from Englewood and New City (Back of the Yards / Canaryville). Some of the worst areas anywhere (although waaaay nicer than when I lived in Chicago 30 years ago).
Even closer to woodlawn and the infamous o block, arguably the birthplace of Chicago drill. Blocks away from campus
nimish 31 minutes ago [-]
Anti-gentrification is a very strange confluence of extreme small-c conservativism and leftism. Quite the odd bedfellows.
giraffe_lady 3 hours ago [-]
When you start talking about actual human people in terms of "getting rid" of an "anti-social element" you know you've got an issue figured out and are definitely on the right side of it.
lurk2 19 seconds ago [-]
700 murders and 10,000 armed robberies per year.
UncleEntity 6 hours ago [-]
> If anything, the University and its police force should do more to rid the neighborhood of its anti-social element.
AKA "the blacks".
Ironically, you are positing the same concerns as the people you claim are "entitled" but instead of questioning the university's policies you want to give them more power to enforce racial segregation.
OldManAndTheCpp 6 hours ago [-]
No, the anti-social elements. It is wrong to paint an entire racial group as anti-social, as you are doing.
UncleEntity 5 hours ago [-]
What?
I'm pointing out that's what the op is doing through their faith in the historical methods of the universities 'community stabilization' efforts. What the op is proposing is exactly what the university did after the Supreme Court shut down the discriminatory laws on residential neighborhoods.
asteinhart 6 hours ago [-]
this is mine! thanks for the share. code for the project is all open source here: https://github.com/chicagomaroon/data-visualizations/tree/ma.... this was my first larger custom story project. maplibre for the map, waypoints for scroller helper and the rest just vanilla js/html/css. hosted on github pages. i have another project that has lots of other examples of cool viz i like (filter to about visualizations) https://content-we-love-54fa79867044.herokuapp.com/
clcaev 6 hours ago [-]
This is absolutely lovely. Thank you.
The underlying map is modern across all timelines. What would be super awesome is if the underlying map would also change, based on historical propery deeds, maps and ariel photos. For example, the 1893 world's fair is when much housing was constructed. The entire coastline also changed during this timeline. This would be an order of magnitude more work...
Is there a place to submit an issue with the data? The final map makes it look like a bunch of properties around the neighborhood were purchased by the University between 2004 and 2005. But I recognize one of them (5125 S. Kenwood, just south of Hyde Park Blvd/51st St.) as my first grad school apartment: I lived there throughout the 1998-99 academic year, and it was definitely a university-owned/managed building at the time.
asteinhart 4 hours ago [-]
yes, can send an email to data@chicagomaroon.com! there are a chunk of apartments that were very hard to get exact dates for so a few are approx but would love to improve the accuracy.
Aeolun 8 hours ago [-]
This must be the first time I’ve seen the scrolling story thing actually work. Great job!
Tangentially related, but still worth checking out: the book "Gang Leader for a Day" [0] touches on this topic of how the university interacts (or doesn't) with its poorer neighbors. Highly recommend the read.
I second this recommendation. Perhaps most interesting is that despite the author literally spending thousands of hours with literal gang members, the only time he's truly afraid is when he's describing the police gang that's been shaking down drug dealers and ordinary residents of the public housing in which he does his research.
This is incredible scrollytelling map work, especially for a student newspaper, I'm pretty amazed.
Great job using MapLibre too, glad it is getting more and more popular.
For others in the thread wondering about other examples of this kind of journalism/mapping/data work, to my knowledge the best term for it would be 'scrollytelling' or 'storymapping' (which is an ESRI term but is used generally as well).
There are a ton of examples out there, but I'm sad there isn't a central repository of really great ones. The NYT and The Pudding are two places that do pretty cool stuff like this.
xnx 7 hours ago [-]
Good content. Scrolling is annoying. Would be nice to have j/k shortcut support to go to next/previous page of content.
madcaptenor 7 hours ago [-]
This is great. My only complaint is that I have literally never been to that part of Chicago, which obviously isn't their fault. I would be fascinated to see this for the urban universities I'm personally familiar with.
wbl 7 hours ago [-]
Go to the museum of science and industry. And Powells. And the Oriental institute.
madcaptenor 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks! Those all look good. I live in Atlanta and have done quick trips to Chicago in the past - there are plenty of flights.
auntienomen 5 hours ago [-]
And Rajun Cajun. :)
madcaptenor 1 hours ago [-]
I hear you, but I live in Atlanta. Now maybe if they found some way to do some sort of Indian - soul food fusion instead of every dish being clearly one or the other...
jppope 7 hours ago [-]
does anyone know how they create the maps for this story? I've wanted to do a similar sort of map for a personal project and don't know how they do it. Especially the feature where you can click.
TheBicPen 4 hours ago [-]
Scrolling is very laggy on mobile. I really don't like this trend of hijacking the scroll feature.
costcopizza 7 hours ago [-]
Thanks for this. I have an impending move to Chicago and really haven't connected with the place the 6 or so times I've been the last year.
Maybe some history will help.
tdb7893 7 hours ago [-]
I just moved away from Chicago but it took me a few years to appreciate the city (and I never found visiting that compelling). I miss it now though, I think the best way to learn to appreciate the city is to go out and do things in the city and find the stuff you like. There is tons of great music, food, art museums, shows (especially improv, idk if the IO Theater is back running but the Improv Shakespeare that they did was amazing). You can find pretty much anything there, the only thing I struggled with is I like the outdoors and there isn't good hiking (but Chicago actually has really good birdwatching in the city).
qingcharles 4 hours ago [-]
I just moved out from Chicago. Don't miss it. Been to hundreds of big cities, Chicago is weak. There's not much to do for tourists compared to other cities. There is a decent theatre scene. Deep dish pizza is good. Lakefront can be nice.
inahga 6 hours ago [-]
> You can find pretty much anything there, the only thing I struggled with is I like the outdoors and there isn't good hiking (but Chicago actually has really good birdwatching in the city).
Lincoln Park north is not what I would call "good hiking", but I think it's nice for those who like the outdoors. Good for daytime walks, large beaches, dog beach, bird sanctuary, some small natural areas, lakefront trail (paved).
For good hiking, yes you'll have to drive out of the city.
Kon-Peki 5 hours ago [-]
You don’t have to go too far out of the city - more than 10% of the county land area is forest preserve. Inside the city, the far northwest side (along the river) and the far south side (big marsh/beaubien woods) are probably the best bets.
I know that the wooded section between the IC tracks and LSD from 47th street up to Oakwood/Pershing is a hiking trail very popular with birdwatchers. You can keep walking up to the 31st street beach parking lot, but I think it might technically be trespassing ;)
Naturally, if you want really good hiking, there is a daily train from Union Station that stops at the front gate to Glacier National Park. You can also take the South Shore train eastwards - there are 3 stops adjacent to the Indiana Dunes (both the state and national parks).
tptacek 6 hours ago [-]
The easiest bit of advice is to get out of the Loop; the city Chicago boosters won't shut up about is mostly out in the neighborhoods. Also: our real pizza is thin-crust.
HDThoreaun 6 hours ago [-]
Stop gatekeeping our pizza. Deep dish is also our real pizza
tptacek 4 hours ago [-]
I didn't even see deep dish until I was 20 years old.
HDThoreaun 4 hours ago [-]
You missed out
haswell 6 hours ago [-]
As a lifelong native, I highly recommend one of the architecture boat tours. Never gets old, and the guides usually manage to pack in a fair bit of history. I know it changed my personal connection to the city.
I’m also convinced that if someone hasn’t connected to the city yet, they just haven’t been to the right neighborhood. They are many, and cater to many tastes.
tinyhouse 1 hours ago [-]
I've been to Hyde Park and you can feel the impact the university has on the neighborhood. I know it's a fantastic school, but I already told my teenage daughter that she is not applying. No place is safe but some places are safer than others.
welfare 8 hours ago [-]
What an amazing way of showcasing development, each with excerpts and notes highlighting expansion decisions.
Are there other examples of this?
Amazing!
dcre 7 hours ago [-]
The New York Times does a lot of great scrolling interactive data stories, unfortunately paywalled, and they don't translate well to archive sites.
What a beautiful webpage! I especially like all the quotes that go with the different expansion phases.
qingcharles 4 hours ago [-]
One thing to note is that crimes committed on any of this property are usually hit with an "aggravating factor", because of it being a school, and can double the sentencing for a crime.
I seem to remember a homeless fellow who used a key to extract some change from a vending machine that was surprisingly on UoC property and got a 12-year sentence.
Also, not to be confused with the confusingly similar University of Illinois Chicago.
thaumasiotes 3 hours ago [-]
> I seem to remember a homeless fellow who used a key to extract some change from a vending machine that was surprisingly on UoC property and got a 12-year sentence.
Well, there are two problems there:
- Being in a school is not an aggravating factor (in reality; I'm not making any claim about the law) for that crime;
- Stealing change from a vending machine shouldn't involve a 6-year sentence.
But neither of those really undermines the general concept of crimes on the property "usually" including an aggravating factor for the location.
qingcharles 2 hours ago [-]
It became a test case of whether there is a limit to punishments for crimes. Is a life sentence for littering constitutionally legal if there is a valid statute that says it is?
The courts eventually up-ended the person's sentence somewhat and reduced it to the minimum available, 6 years. I don't know whether the person had already served over that time before his sentence was adjusted, but I would hazard a guess that he had.
thaumasiotes 23 minutes ago [-]
> It became a test case of whether there is a limit to punishments for crimes. Is a life sentence for littering constitutionally legal if there is a valid statute that says it is?
This can't be a correct description; a statute can't influence whether something is or isn't constitutional. They're different levels.
I tend to suspect that you're intentionally omitting whatever the case was actually about.
Eldar_ 8 hours ago [-]
Map doesn’t work?
bell-cot 7 hours ago [-]
Javascript disabled or ads* blocked?
If "no", which web browser are you having problems with?
*I'm seeing no actual ads. Nor js from sketchy domain.
Starlord2048 6 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 22:09:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
What a non-issue. You have this massive development that's going to benefit your community and you're concerned because the people who actually contributed to it are going to benefit as well? The entitlement is just unreal.
I've lived on one of the streets mentioned in the article and its hard to overstate how shockingly dangerous the area is. Hearing gunshots was a regular occurrence. I knew someone who intervened in a robbery and was shot and nearly killed. I wouldn't allow friends to come visit after dark because I feared for their safety. If anything, the University and its police force should do more to rid the neighborhood of its anti-social element.
Just anecdata. I had a family member living there for the six years, several addresses including their condo on Drexel Ave, one block from Cottage Grove (more or less the western boundary of campus proper). Their first child was born there, mom often went on long walks with the stroller to parks, etc with no problems. I visited several times, never had a problem. I walked to The Cove at night for a few beers, Sister Sledge on the jukebox was a conversation starter. Reggie's at the Beach (63rd St.) was a nice place, easy parking.
Every large city has "dangerous" areas, Hyde Park probably has fewer per capita than most.
The army used to train their trauma surgeons in Chicago because of the number of knife and gunshot wounds seen in the city's hospitals. From 2001 to 2021, there were about 1,000 more murders in the city than American soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The university has so many buildings in Hyde Park that they often make the decisions about which businesses are there or not. I've been happy with most of their choices recently; bringing in a Trader Joe, for example. However, some residents have differing opinions.
There was a race riot there in 1919: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_race_riot_of_1919
AKA "the blacks".
Ironically, you are positing the same concerns as the people you claim are "entitled" but instead of questioning the university's policies you want to give them more power to enforce racial segregation.
I'm pointing out that's what the op is doing through their faith in the historical methods of the universities 'community stabilization' efforts. What the op is proposing is exactly what the university did after the Supreme Court shut down the discriminatory laws on residential neighborhoods.
The underlying map is modern across all timelines. What would be super awesome is if the underlying map would also change, based on historical propery deeds, maps and ariel photos. For example, the 1893 world's fair is when much housing was constructed. The entire coastline also changed during this timeline. This would be an order of magnitude more work...
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Leader_for_a_Day
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2023/02/05/chi...
Great job using MapLibre too, glad it is getting more and more popular.
For others in the thread wondering about other examples of this kind of journalism/mapping/data work, to my knowledge the best term for it would be 'scrollytelling' or 'storymapping' (which is an ESRI term but is used generally as well).
There are a ton of examples out there, but I'm sad there isn't a central repository of really great ones. The NYT and The Pudding are two places that do pretty cool stuff like this.
Maybe some history will help.
Lincoln Park north is not what I would call "good hiking", but I think it's nice for those who like the outdoors. Good for daytime walks, large beaches, dog beach, bird sanctuary, some small natural areas, lakefront trail (paved).
For good hiking, yes you'll have to drive out of the city.
I know that the wooded section between the IC tracks and LSD from 47th street up to Oakwood/Pershing is a hiking trail very popular with birdwatchers. You can keep walking up to the 31st street beach parking lot, but I think it might technically be trespassing ;)
Naturally, if you want really good hiking, there is a daily train from Union Station that stops at the front gate to Glacier National Park. You can also take the South Shore train eastwards - there are 3 stops adjacent to the Indiana Dunes (both the state and national parks).
I’m also convinced that if someone hasn’t connected to the city yet, they just haven’t been to the right neighborhood. They are many, and cater to many tastes.
Are there other examples of this?
Amazing!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/20/us/2024-year-...
I seem to remember a homeless fellow who used a key to extract some change from a vending machine that was surprisingly on UoC property and got a 12-year sentence.
Also, not to be confused with the confusingly similar University of Illinois Chicago.
Well, there are two problems there:
- Being in a school is not an aggravating factor (in reality; I'm not making any claim about the law) for that crime;
- Stealing change from a vending machine shouldn't involve a 6-year sentence.
But neither of those really undermines the general concept of crimes on the property "usually" including an aggravating factor for the location.
The courts eventually up-ended the person's sentence somewhat and reduced it to the minimum available, 6 years. I don't know whether the person had already served over that time before his sentence was adjusted, but I would hazard a guess that he had.
This can't be a correct description; a statute can't influence whether something is or isn't constitutional. They're different levels.
I tend to suspect that you're intentionally omitting whatever the case was actually about.
If "no", which web browser are you having problems with?
*I'm seeing no actual ads. Nor js from sketchy domain.