This quote pretty much sums up what is going on in these communities.
"During Wednesday’s debate, Ald. Freddrenna Lyle (6th), Bailey’s Park Manor neighbor, decried the changes that have turned her once tranquil blue-collar neighborhood into a magnet for crime.
Lyle has blamed the CHA’s Plan for Transformation, in part, for the surge of crime that included a Labor Day burglary at the alderman’s home.
“Over the last four or five years, it has become a community that many of us say we don’t understand, we don’t recognize, we don’t know who these people are,” Lyle said.
“I don’t know how many days a week we see some behavior on the street and we say, ‘Where in the world did these people come from and we sure wish they’d go back.’ We’ve never seen people who had such a disrespect for themselves [and] the property of others.”
Referring to slain Chicago Police Officer Thomas Wortham IV, a longtime family friend and Chatham resident who was killed in May, Lyle added, “I’m tired of memorializing officers from the 6th Ward.”Need anymore be said?
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