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Not only are you making a lot of assumptions here, you have a woeful ignorance of Chicago neighborhoods but throw out names of neighborhoods like you're an expert (perhaps obtained from listening to Drill records or something).

Also, Beverly is one of the most integrated neighborhoods in Chicago, and it isn't even majority Black, so not sure why you even mention it. It also isn't 'adjacent' to Bronzeville unless you ignore all of the neighborhoods between them.


I grew up in Beverly. It's an Irish Catholic enclave. "Integrated" is not a word I would choose for it.

You're right to call out that previous commenter doesn't seem to know anything about Chicago neighborhoods; how else could you claim someone was "gentrifying" Beverly? But I wouldn't call out Beverly as a bastion of racial equity. My Black friends couldn't walk with me down the street after dark, in the 1990s, without us getting fucked with by passing cars. I doubt it's that much better now.

"Bronzeville-adjacent" is a very funny way of describing it; like saying Tacoma is Capitol Hill-adjacent.


Most people who complain about gentrification have no idea what they're talking about, why should this comment be any different?


I’m a white guy who lived in Bronzeville for 3 years because I went to IIT… which is in Bronzeville. Was I also a gentrifier?


You could check a map if you wanted to make up things to sound knowledgeable about the Southside of Chicago…


The only halfway charitable plausible explanation I can think of is that they're a Rock Island District commuter (who closes their eyes between stops)


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Just like you know they are adjacent?





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