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At this point, it really depends on the block you live on. Some blocks are quiet, yet others are grimy af
For instance, 79th and Maryland
82nd and Maryland
yea my nephew got killed over there at that gas station a few weeks ago.Prior to that, he got shot a couple times at that same gas station smh.I actually saw the video of that shooting on fb too
my nephew was well known thou, a few local rappers was even at his funeral(katie got bandz,pokaface,mikkey dollaz,etc), which was surprising because his ass refused to leave that block lol.Every time i went to go see him, he was always posted right there on 79th & Maryland.
3 of his close friends died right there and honestly i think thats where he wanted to die too because he knew he could've left and stayed with me or his moms or anybody else who didn't live over there, but thats where he wanted to be.
ReadOneBookAWeek
Smoking on a Cac Pack
Sorry to hear that breh. I don't even want to visit chi town. I already get mistaken for someone else all the time where I live. I don't want to get shot because I look like an opp.
@OffHalsted
The 100s LochNess
Shorties just can't take candy & go home... Like 3-4 yr this has happened
Was just over there. On Woodlawn at fams house. Neighborhood was definitely teaming with folks. Couldn't believe it was that many people over there. Folks definitely wasn't from the neighborhood.
Who we voting for, brehs? 
Running
Toni Preckwinkle
COOK COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT AND COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRWOMAN
Speaking after a County Board meeting on Sept. 12, Preckwinkle said she is "interested" in running for Chicago mayor and is circulating petitions to get her name on the February ballot but hasn't yet made a decision to run. "I have served the city and the county together for more than a quarter of a century. Nineteen of them as alderman, almost eight as County Board president," she said. "I believe that experience gives me a unique understanding of the issues and challenges that our region faces."
Bill Daley
FORMER U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY
The brother and son of two former mayors, he's flirted with running for a high-profile office before, including 2002 and 2010 bids for governor, but never moved forward. In 2013, he briefly entered the Democratic primary contest for governor, but then abruptly dropped out saying a bid "wasn't the best thing for me" and vowed never to seek public office again. Daley, now 70, may have to explain what's changed. His surname also mayh not carry the same clout with the electorate it used to, as the party continues to drift furthur left from his centrist business background. Daley also may get tagged by progressives for his brother's financial mismanagement of the city and his father's role in Chicago becoming a deeply segregated city.
Garry McCarthy
FORMER CHICAGO POLICESUPERINTENDENT
The native New Yorker ran the Chicago Police Department for more than four years before Emanuel fired him in December 2015, when the video of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald was released. At the time, Emanuel said McCarthy had lost the trust of the community and had to go. McCarthy, however, has potrayed himself as the scapegoat and has maintained it was City Hall that was in charge of handling the McDonald video and noted that Emanuel's Law Department fought the video's release in court.Holding a news conference outside Emanuel's office in June, McCarthy accused the mayor of running a pay-to-play administration, said he is inaccessible to Chicagoans and likened the mayor's school closings to the Trump administration separating young immigrant children from their families at the southern U.S. border. Emanuel's campaign responded by releasing a three-page memo highlighting three McCarthy donors -- one who pleaded guilty to a bribery charge, a second who faced state fraud allegations of inflating a McCormick Place contract and a third who ran a clouted venture capital firm during former Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration and failed to pay back $21 million in borrowed taxpayer money.McCarthy has said he wants to focus on crime and favors locating a casino at O'Hare International Airport to help fix the city's financial problems.
Garry McCarthy campaign site
Dorothy Brown
COOK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT CLERK
Dorothy Brown is the Cook County Circuit Court clerk, an office she was first elected to in 2000 and re-elected to for four terms since. Her current term ends in 2020. Brown, 65, ran for mayor against Richard M. Daley in 2007, netting about 20 percent of the vote, and in 2010 ran for president of the Cook County Board, the year current President Toni Preckwinkle was elected. Though she has been the focus of a long-running federal investigation into an alleged bribes-for-jobs scheme, she has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged.
Dorothy Brown campaign site
Gery Chico
ATTORNEY AND FORMER MAYOR CANDIDATE
Born and raised in Chicago, Chico has held a number of top city positions: chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley, president of Chicago Public Schools, chair of the City Colleges of Chicago, president of the Chicago Park District and commissioner of the Public Buildings Commission. Chico is an attorney. He ran against Emanuel in 2011 and was a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2004. Chico, his wife Sunny, and their five children all attended Chicago Public Schools.
Paul Vallas
FORMER CEO OF CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ONETIME CITY BUDGET DIRECTOR
In February, as Vallas was weighing a run for mayor, Emanuel slammed him as the "architect of kicking the can down the road," to which Vallas responded by calling the mayor a liar. Emanuel has attacked Valas for having a role in skipping pension payments and eliminating a property tax specifically earmarked for teacher pensions. While CPS skipped some payments on Vallas' watch, the teachers pension fund was stll sound when he left in 2001. Vallas has blamed his successors for not keeping commitments on fully funding the pensions.If elected mayor, Vallas has promised to redirect up to one-third of the money in the city's tax increment finance districts to economincally distressed areas, unveil a plan to protect Chicagoans from lead-contaminated tap water, add 20 more ambulances to the Chicago Fire Department fleet by the end of his first term, scrap Emanuel's current City Colleges strategy and provide universal occupational job training for "disenfranchised Chicagoans."
Paul Vallas campaign site
Lori Lightfoot
FORMER CHICAGO POLICE BOARD PRESIDENT AND FEDERAL PROSECUTOR
It was Lightfoot whom Emanuel tasked with co-chairing a police reform panel to form recommendations amid the fallout from the Laquan McDonald case. Now, the progressive candidate wants to make City Hall more accessible to all citizens while continuing to pursue an overhaul of the Chicago Police Department.The former senior partner at the Mayer Brown law firm worked with police misconduct cases and was appointed by Emanuel to head the nine-member civilian Police Board in 2015. Those volunteer duties expanded to include leading a task force in the wake of the release of the video of the McDonald shooting. The panel issued a scathing report in April 2016, saying racism in the Police Department undermines its relationship with the community and calling for sweeping changes in oversight, training and philosophy. Since then, Lightfoot has at times been critical of Emanuel's approach to police reform.If elected, Lightfoot would become the city's first openly gay mayor and the first African-American woman to hold the job. She previously worked at City Hall under former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Lori Lightfoot campaign site
Amara Enyia
POLICY CONSULTANT
The director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, Amara Enyia, 35, lives in Garfield Park. Her parents emigrated from Nigeria and she is one of six children. She ran in the 2015 mayoral race before dropping out and joining then-Ald. Bob Fioretti's team. Enyia started as a journalist, according to her site, and has since earned a master's degree in education, a law degree and a doctorate in education policy.
Amara Enyia campaign site
Ja'Mal Green
COMMUNITY ACTIVIST
Ja'Mal Green grew up in Chicago and is an activist and entrepreneuer. According to his site, he started his first youth organization at 15. He is now 23 and a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement. He served in Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign in 2016. Green also created a non-for-profit youth center.
Ja'Mal Green campaign site
Jeremiah Joyce Jr.
LAWYER AND SON OF DALEY ALLY
Jeremiah Joyce Jr. is the son of former 19th Ward alderman and state Sen. Jeremiah Joyce. Joyce Jr. practices law in the West Beverly neighborhood on the Far South Side and is a former assistant state's attorney. His father was close with former Mayor Richard M. Daley and helped elect former Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine. Joyce has not officially announced his candidacy.
John Kozlar
LAWYER AND FORMER CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE
John Kozlar first ran for Chicago alderman in 2011 and again in 2015, forcing Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson into a runoff. He grew up in Chicago, according to his campaign site, graduated from Mount Carmel High School, University of Chicago and John Marshall Law School. He works for Aon.
John Kozlar campaign site
Troy LaRaviere
FORMER CPS PRINCIPAL
The fiery head of the Chicago principals association is one of the Emanuel's harshest critics. LaRaviere burst onto Chicago's political scene in May 2014, when his blistering critique of Emanuel's top-down approach to education ran on the Chicago Sun-Times' opinion pages. LaRaviere is a Navy veteran who attended Chicago Public Schools.
Troy LaRaviere campaign site
Matthew Roney
PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNICIAN AND DEPAUL STUDENT
According to his campaign website, the 20-year-old political science major's pharmacy job derailed his plans for a career in health care after he discovered many of his customers could not afford their medications. He's created the Garden Party, a new political group, "designed to help Chicagoans grow and flourish by helping them get access to better-paying jobs and access to crucial funding that is needed for neighborhood development and community enrichment."
Matthew Roney campaign site
Neal Sales-Griffin
TECH ENTREPRENEUR
Sales-Griffin, a young, political novice who grew up in Kenwood and teaches at Northwestern University and University of Chicago, serves as CEO for CodeNow.org, a New York-based nonprofit that teaches coding to kids. He previously co-founded The Starter League, a coding and entrepreneurial school, which was sold to Fullstack Academy in 2016.His announcement as a mayoral candidate on April 21, 2018, did not go well, by Sales-Griffin's own estimation. "I'm about to be the most embarassed human being in Chicago," he said. His meandering 85 minutes on stage at the Shapiro Ballroom in West Town included long, deep breaths, awkward pauses and lacked details of his campaign platform. He then declared he had "bombed this speech."
Neal Sales-Griffin campaign site
Willie Wilson
WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN AND PREVIOUS MAYORAL CANDIDATE
The current owner of Omar Medical Supplies and former owner of several McDonald's franchises, Wilson recently gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars to parishioners of a South Side church and to help Cook County residents pay their property taxes. These actions prompted the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform to file a complaint against Wilson with the State Board of Elections, but Wilson didn't violate state law. Noting he was raised in the Jim Crow South, Wilson, who is black, responded, "I'm just tired of white people telling me what to do." When he ran for the same office in 2015, he won nearly 11 percent of the vote. He also ran for U.S. president in 2016.
Willie Wilson campaign site
Running
Toni Preckwinkle
COOK COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT AND COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRWOMAN
Speaking after a County Board meeting on Sept. 12, Preckwinkle said she is "interested" in running for Chicago mayor and is circulating petitions to get her name on the February ballot but hasn't yet made a decision to run. "I have served the city and the county together for more than a quarter of a century. Nineteen of them as alderman, almost eight as County Board president," she said. "I believe that experience gives me a unique understanding of the issues and challenges that our region faces."
Bill Daley
FORMER U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY
The brother and son of two former mayors, he's flirted with running for a high-profile office before, including 2002 and 2010 bids for governor, but never moved forward. In 2013, he briefly entered the Democratic primary contest for governor, but then abruptly dropped out saying a bid "wasn't the best thing for me" and vowed never to seek public office again. Daley, now 70, may have to explain what's changed. His surname also mayh not carry the same clout with the electorate it used to, as the party continues to drift furthur left from his centrist business background. Daley also may get tagged by progressives for his brother's financial mismanagement of the city and his father's role in Chicago becoming a deeply segregated city.
Garry McCarthy
FORMER CHICAGO POLICESUPERINTENDENT
The native New Yorker ran the Chicago Police Department for more than four years before Emanuel fired him in December 2015, when the video of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald was released. At the time, Emanuel said McCarthy had lost the trust of the community and had to go. McCarthy, however, has potrayed himself as the scapegoat and has maintained it was City Hall that was in charge of handling the McDonald video and noted that Emanuel's Law Department fought the video's release in court.Holding a news conference outside Emanuel's office in June, McCarthy accused the mayor of running a pay-to-play administration, said he is inaccessible to Chicagoans and likened the mayor's school closings to the Trump administration separating young immigrant children from their families at the southern U.S. border. Emanuel's campaign responded by releasing a three-page memo highlighting three McCarthy donors -- one who pleaded guilty to a bribery charge, a second who faced state fraud allegations of inflating a McCormick Place contract and a third who ran a clouted venture capital firm during former Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration and failed to pay back $21 million in borrowed taxpayer money.McCarthy has said he wants to focus on crime and favors locating a casino at O'Hare International Airport to help fix the city's financial problems.
Garry McCarthy campaign site
Dorothy Brown
COOK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT CLERK
Dorothy Brown is the Cook County Circuit Court clerk, an office she was first elected to in 2000 and re-elected to for four terms since. Her current term ends in 2020. Brown, 65, ran for mayor against Richard M. Daley in 2007, netting about 20 percent of the vote, and in 2010 ran for president of the Cook County Board, the year current President Toni Preckwinkle was elected. Though she has been the focus of a long-running federal investigation into an alleged bribes-for-jobs scheme, she has denied wrongdoing and has not been charged.
Dorothy Brown campaign site
Gery Chico
ATTORNEY AND FORMER MAYOR CANDIDATE
Born and raised in Chicago, Chico has held a number of top city positions: chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley, president of Chicago Public Schools, chair of the City Colleges of Chicago, president of the Chicago Park District and commissioner of the Public Buildings Commission. Chico is an attorney. He ran against Emanuel in 2011 and was a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2004. Chico, his wife Sunny, and their five children all attended Chicago Public Schools.
Paul Vallas
FORMER CEO OF CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ONETIME CITY BUDGET DIRECTOR
In February, as Vallas was weighing a run for mayor, Emanuel slammed him as the "architect of kicking the can down the road," to which Vallas responded by calling the mayor a liar. Emanuel has attacked Valas for having a role in skipping pension payments and eliminating a property tax specifically earmarked for teacher pensions. While CPS skipped some payments on Vallas' watch, the teachers pension fund was stll sound when he left in 2001. Vallas has blamed his successors for not keeping commitments on fully funding the pensions.If elected mayor, Vallas has promised to redirect up to one-third of the money in the city's tax increment finance districts to economincally distressed areas, unveil a plan to protect Chicagoans from lead-contaminated tap water, add 20 more ambulances to the Chicago Fire Department fleet by the end of his first term, scrap Emanuel's current City Colleges strategy and provide universal occupational job training for "disenfranchised Chicagoans."
Paul Vallas campaign site
Lori Lightfoot
FORMER CHICAGO POLICE BOARD PRESIDENT AND FEDERAL PROSECUTOR
It was Lightfoot whom Emanuel tasked with co-chairing a police reform panel to form recommendations amid the fallout from the Laquan McDonald case. Now, the progressive candidate wants to make City Hall more accessible to all citizens while continuing to pursue an overhaul of the Chicago Police Department.The former senior partner at the Mayer Brown law firm worked with police misconduct cases and was appointed by Emanuel to head the nine-member civilian Police Board in 2015. Those volunteer duties expanded to include leading a task force in the wake of the release of the video of the McDonald shooting. The panel issued a scathing report in April 2016, saying racism in the Police Department undermines its relationship with the community and calling for sweeping changes in oversight, training and philosophy. Since then, Lightfoot has at times been critical of Emanuel's approach to police reform.If elected, Lightfoot would become the city's first openly gay mayor and the first African-American woman to hold the job. She previously worked at City Hall under former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Lori Lightfoot campaign site
Amara Enyia
POLICY CONSULTANT
The director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, Amara Enyia, 35, lives in Garfield Park. Her parents emigrated from Nigeria and she is one of six children. She ran in the 2015 mayoral race before dropping out and joining then-Ald. Bob Fioretti's team. Enyia started as a journalist, according to her site, and has since earned a master's degree in education, a law degree and a doctorate in education policy.
Amara Enyia campaign site
Ja'Mal Green
COMMUNITY ACTIVIST
Ja'Mal Green grew up in Chicago and is an activist and entrepreneuer. According to his site, he started his first youth organization at 15. He is now 23 and a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement. He served in Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign in 2016. Green also created a non-for-profit youth center.
Ja'Mal Green campaign site
Jeremiah Joyce Jr.
LAWYER AND SON OF DALEY ALLY
Jeremiah Joyce Jr. is the son of former 19th Ward alderman and state Sen. Jeremiah Joyce. Joyce Jr. practices law in the West Beverly neighborhood on the Far South Side and is a former assistant state's attorney. His father was close with former Mayor Richard M. Daley and helped elect former Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine. Joyce has not officially announced his candidacy.
John Kozlar
LAWYER AND FORMER CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE
John Kozlar first ran for Chicago alderman in 2011 and again in 2015, forcing Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson into a runoff. He grew up in Chicago, according to his campaign site, graduated from Mount Carmel High School, University of Chicago and John Marshall Law School. He works for Aon.
John Kozlar campaign site
Troy LaRaviere
FORMER CPS PRINCIPAL
The fiery head of the Chicago principals association is one of the Emanuel's harshest critics. LaRaviere burst onto Chicago's political scene in May 2014, when his blistering critique of Emanuel's top-down approach to education ran on the Chicago Sun-Times' opinion pages. LaRaviere is a Navy veteran who attended Chicago Public Schools.
Troy LaRaviere campaign site
Matthew Roney
PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNICIAN AND DEPAUL STUDENT
According to his campaign website, the 20-year-old political science major's pharmacy job derailed his plans for a career in health care after he discovered many of his customers could not afford their medications. He's created the Garden Party, a new political group, "designed to help Chicagoans grow and flourish by helping them get access to better-paying jobs and access to crucial funding that is needed for neighborhood development and community enrichment."
Matthew Roney campaign site
Neal Sales-Griffin
TECH ENTREPRENEUR
Sales-Griffin, a young, political novice who grew up in Kenwood and teaches at Northwestern University and University of Chicago, serves as CEO for CodeNow.org, a New York-based nonprofit that teaches coding to kids. He previously co-founded The Starter League, a coding and entrepreneurial school, which was sold to Fullstack Academy in 2016.His announcement as a mayoral candidate on April 21, 2018, did not go well, by Sales-Griffin's own estimation. "I'm about to be the most embarassed human being in Chicago," he said. His meandering 85 minutes on stage at the Shapiro Ballroom in West Town included long, deep breaths, awkward pauses and lacked details of his campaign platform. He then declared he had "bombed this speech."
Neal Sales-Griffin campaign site
Willie Wilson
WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN AND PREVIOUS MAYORAL CANDIDATE
The current owner of Omar Medical Supplies and former owner of several McDonald's franchises, Wilson recently gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars to parishioners of a South Side church and to help Cook County residents pay their property taxes. These actions prompted the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform to file a complaint against Wilson with the State Board of Elections, but Wilson didn't violate state law. Noting he was raised in the Jim Crow South, Wilson, who is black, responded, "I'm just tired of white people telling me what to do." When he ran for the same office in 2015, he won nearly 11 percent of the vote. He also ran for U.S. president in 2016.
Willie Wilson campaign site
@OffHalsted
The 100s LochNess
Preckwinkle
Bill Daley(Base of his family name)
Paul Vallas
1of these 3 are going to become Mayor
Bill Daley(Base of his family name)
Paul Vallas
1of these 3 are going to become Mayor
@OffHalsted
The 100s LochNess
They wildin
Vallas is the best option of those three. Anyone connected to the Daley's or the Chicago Machine is going to be more of the same.
Capital Steez
All Star
I like Amara’s platform.
Cant believe mfs thought Amazon was really gone come to Chi
Stone Cold
Superstar
Vallas
Although I like Amara
Although I like Amara
Stone Cold
Superstar
Dude look like Josh from Drake & JoshI been tryna think who Pritzker reminded me off.... Then it hit me... The dad from Wonder Years
