Stay at your own risk! Unfortunately, this area of Chicago is not on the up and up. It’s not as close to the West Loop as you think and the neighborhood isn’t entirely safe (will elaborate in a moment). I stayed here with my family which included my 2 yr old son. Overall, the place was clean and nicely updated. However, the walls are extremely thin and on our first night we could hear the neighbors below us snoring. Not an ideal situation.
On the second night the street was lined with what appeared to be 200+ people hanging out in the street and in vacant lot with abandoned cars which is two doors down from this place. Loud noises, and music could be heard coming from cars and motorcycles as they entered the street and continued to pass our place. It was so loud that the car alarms from parked cars were routinely set-off. The police showed up, sitting in their cars for about 20 mins and then left. The party lasted all night and noise didn’t quite down until 4:48am the following morning.
We thought this might have been just a one time thing. It wasn’t.
It appeared that the same crowd and cars showed up to this same vacant lot and along the street in front of the house on our third and final night (Sunday). Around 10:45pm we heard gun fire right outside our window. We immediately dropped to the floor and waited for the gunfire to stop, and we also called the police to report the gunfire. Police showed up, as well as several ambulances, and taped off the street, as it was a crime scene at that point. We would later learn that 5 people were shot and one person was killed when the shooting made local news the following day.
I contacted Brad about the issues we had. He responded by saying that he’d been renting AirBnb’s on this block for years and never had any problems which I find hard to believe. I asked for a full refund and was only given a small portion which he called a “courtesy credit”.