tfl: The Flatiron Life

Here is the police blotter for the last 50 crimes within an 8 block radius of our condo. The 50th one took place on April 6th (as of this posting.)

Here is the police blotter for the last 50 crimes within an 8 block radius of our new apartment. The 50th one took place on March 6th (as of this posting.)

15 days vs 45 days. I don’t like the crime in Uptown, but I don’t generally feel it amazingly unsafe. I do find it less safe than when we lived in Lincoln Park. However, there have also been 50 crimes in the last 15 days there too. This also validates the niceness I feeling Lincoln Square/North Center.

Much of the crimes in Uptown are drug related or between gang members. The others could just be the difference in enforcement, but I don’t think so. Either way, more evidence of a good move that will decrease our exposure to it. I hope the CPD can clean up Uptown while we are gone ahead of us selling our condo in a few years.

My condo board president emailed us recently to inform us about an upcoming community meeting about Labor Ready moving to our area.

Labor Ready is a placement agency for day labor. This sounds great to me. I don’t have numbers, but it looks like there are lots of underemployed folks around here. Perhaps, that is why this company wants to move here.

Why are people in the community opposed to this? The reported reasons are because there will be people lining up to get work; and once they have work, there will be vans loading on the street to take them to work. (This sounds a lot like something else to me. People standing in line waiting on transport to work. Hmm, where else do I see that? I will have to think about it at the Metra station tomorrow.)

These people are willing to stand in line for what I suspect is hard work, if not ‘work Americans won’t do.’ This is what I want Jonah to see and learn about, not the crazeos we usually have down on the corner.