23rd
Everytime I block, everyblock
My block: http://chicago.everyblock.com/streets/rosemont-ave/1214-1298w/
Besides cracking up to see that someone gave a Yelp review of CVS for one star and Walgreens for five stars, I actually learned something.
Usually, when it comes to street crimes, I find myself pretty apathetic. But when it comes to an aggravated robbery on a CTA platform that I use twice a day, and at a time that I barely missed, it starts to make me get a little paranoid.
http://chicago.everyblock.com/crime/by-date/2008/10/13/1435890/
I appreciate being able to know this kind of stuff, but it comes as a shock. I’ve always thought that I was missing crime because of location—which is a huge part of it—but I now realize that a lot just has to do with random timing. I was at that station not a half hour after the crime happened that Monday night.
But I was cheered-up by a Sun Times article about the comic book store a few doors down.
http://chicago.everyblock.com/news-articles/by-date/2008/10/18/1427063/
All in all, I just hope I don’t become paranoid after learning about all the crimes happening on my street.
