Run, don’t walk!! Unsafe area!! Adrienne tried, but her main problem was the unsafe location. Our Uber driver, from the airport, gave us our first clue when he realized we were booked in the South Side of Chicago. He said something about the crime rates & when we asked if we were in an unsafe area, he made a joke about it.
When we arrived, there were multiple police officers (but no visible police cars) talking with the next door neighbor about a stolen car they’d purchased. We were like well, with private parties, that can happen, right?
Around midnight, someone who was clearly was inebriated, tried to open our front door, but we stayed because it’s an apartment.
Around 4am someone tried to enter again and this time they banged on the wall to my sons room and on the front door.
Then, in the morning, as we were packing up some things to take to the post office, someone tried to open the front door again.
Wondering what kind of neighborhood we were in, we went out back and found broken windows, a burnt balcony and that we were clearly in a rundown area of town.
As we were leaving, a dark Suburban stopped in the middle of the street and our Uber driver, a retired military man from Greece, feared for his safety and ours. He said a few years before, his car had been hijacked at Gun point in that area of town.
This area is not safe. We highly recommend you stay out of this area of town!!