Anonymous User wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 7:12 pm
Anonymous User wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 6:45 pm
A U of C employee was robbed at gunpoint just a couple blocks down 60th from the law school at 5:30 this morning.
That's wild that the armed robbery was on 60th itself. As a recent U Chi law school graduate, we definitely all knew that you shouldn't head even a block south of the law school (not southeast, not southwest, and not directly south), but I would have considered 60th itself to be a relatively safe street. It's surrounded on either side of 60th by the public policy school and a nice, new food hall and dorms for undergraduates.
The shooting on 53rd the other day was absolutely bonkers, too -- it was right smack in the most commercialized and walkable streets in Hyde Park.
Not the point, but Woodlawn is reasonably safe down to 63rd, that's bad advice. That area is actually pretty dense with students and university employees these days, including some law students, and two of the university's three mega-dorms are on 61st.
Also muggings anywhere in Hyde Park aren't all that unusual, there's one a week or so, but actually violent muggings are basically unheard of. The rumor north of the Midway is that the student who was killed tried to wrestle/fistfight with the mugger, and while I'm not trying to victim-blame, you really, really shouldn't do that.
The student who was shot but not robbed this year was killed in a bizarre traveling mass shooting by a guy who committed suicide-by-cop who killed people way up on the North Side too. Obviously it was incredibly tragic but it was much more incredibly shitty luck than a symptom of rising crime.
Agreed that the 53rd one is bonkers, and I have no idea how multiple gunmen can fire 35 shots and hit nothing on 53rd, but thank God that they didn't.
