Saturday, October 05, 2019

Humboldt What Now?

This is what happens when you have people writing stories based on phone calls instead of actually going out to the scene and reporting:
  • A 26-year-old man was pronounced dead after he was stabbed Friday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.

    Shortly before 9:15 a.m., officers responded to a call of a stabbing in the first block of North Hamlin Avenue where they found a victim with a stab wound to the chest. He was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital where he later was pronounced dead, said police.

    There was no immediate information available about the circumstance leading up to the stabbing, but police did say a 24-year-old woman was in custody.
Hamlin and Madison is nowhere near Humboldt park and actually overlooks the western edge of Garfield Park. And if you look up footage of the 1968 riots, Pulaski and Madison, a mere two blocks from this address, was among the hardest hit neighborhoods from those years and hasn't recovered much in the intervening fifty years.

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35 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The other day they said the police shot a dog on the northwest side. It was on the 2400 N block of Lawndale, I think. Shouldn’t northwest at least be west of Cicero? Clueless.

10/05/2019 12:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hamlin & Madison?
Humboldt Park?

Been a while but coulda sworn
it was Independence & Madison
and Garfield Park...

"Hamlin" doesn't officially pick up
until north of Lake St. IIRC...

Hey...

"Realtor Cop" has been kinda
quiet lately hasn't he?

10/05/2019 12:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

scc: "And if you look up footage of the 1968 riots, Pulaski and Madison, a mere two blocks from this address, was among the hardest hit neighborhoods from those years and hasn't recovered much in the intervening fifty years."

The self-cleaning oven was much more efficient back then.

10/05/2019 12:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No this what you have when people that are from Iowa or Ohio writing about Chicago crime and have no clue, and those are the editors.

10/05/2019 12:44:00 AM  
Anonymous BLOODY FILLMO' said...

Want a significant decrease in murders and other violent crimes? Mayor Lightfoot and family must move from Logan Square to the vicinity of Madison and Pulaski in the Fillmo' district ASAP?

The Fillmo'/Garfield Park/011th District has now surpassed SIXTY (60) MURDERS this year, far, far worse than the other district runners-up.

The sinister thing is that www.ChicagoPolice.org has failed to update their weekly statistical Part I Index Crime count since Sunday, September 22th--that's two weeks tomorrow.

No transparency or accountability. It's "the Chicago Way". Shhhhhhhh!

10/05/2019 01:22:00 AM  
Blogger stash the polski guy said...

big mistake to let city news bureau go away.

10/05/2019 04:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And to think the FILMO area is largely a park area, just think if that park area filled with houses and community members.

10/05/2019 05:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Chicago media is a geographial knowledge and map desert. This problem affects print, tv and radio outlets.

10/05/2019 05:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


The Fillmo'/Garfield Park/011th District has now surpassed SIXTY (60) MURDERS this year, far, far worse than the other district runners-up.


Now you’ve done it. The “Fillmore district isn’t on Fillmore anymore”guy will be showing up in 3....2....1.... to scold you.

10/05/2019 06:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If it weren’t for the technology of the easy buttons most of these jag offs would be lucky to get a job at the “Porcelain Palace “ working nights

10/05/2019 06:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And then they wonder why the are thought of as the fake, lying media.

10/05/2019 06:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Didn’t they try to put an upscale Zayre’s store at Madison and Pulaski after the riots?

10/05/2019 09:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is news?
Lazy at-home reporters relying on the worldwide internets. Cut and paste article that contains nothing but makes an attempt to nudge a crime location over to someone else’s jurisdiction. Hamlin Boulevard is Garfield’s Park (named after an orange tabby).
Splitting hairs on the boundary...as if Humbo Park is any different than East Garfield’s when it comes to underserved and economic divested.
Avoiding mentioning 011 the murder capital and alleviates another jab at the Merit DC.

Never understood why there’s a neighborhood map that differs from a community map and that none ever correspond to real estate designations.
There’s no standard. Soon Edison Park will extend to the Eisenhower rather than East Garafields to the Kennedy.
It will make crime locations more broad and not so confined.

Break it down...
1st week of the month, young folk, 9 a.m.
Gee what’s missing here?

Murder is murder and getting away with it in Restorative Cook County is the issue.
And jobs.

10/05/2019 10:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One of my pet peeves is when reporters who aren't from here, give the wrong neighborhood. That Humboldt Park, Garfield Park thing seems to be their favorite one to fuck up.
I've seen Rogers Park reported as Lakeview. As well as Austin reported as Lawndale.
It's at once comical, sad and annoying.
Mom & Dad's money was well spent on those journalism degrees. ***eye roll***

10/05/2019 10:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Tommy t said...

The media has no clue where any neighborhood is and what the area is called their idiots

10/05/2019 10:39:00 AM  
Blogger Cuthbert J Twillie said...

LOL, hey no big deal -- Humboldt Park, Garfield Park, Washington Park, Brighton Park, McKinley Park, Gage Park, Columbus Park, Grant Park, Maggie Daley Park, etc, etc, etc, what's the difference, a 'Park', is a park, is a park. No?

On the other hand, at least Tribune Ace Reporter, Deanese Williams-Harris, got the city correct and didn't write that the stabbing happened in Oak Park. After all, all those damn 'Parks' can easily get you confused.

Yeah right, especially if you're a moron.

10/05/2019 10:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Google Maps got the neighborhood tagged incorrectly... Blame Microsoft ergo.

Modern, younger journalists. Smart phone format friendly content for fake news and other errors.

10/05/2019 10:46:00 AM  
Anonymous A Canada Goose in the Garfield Park Lagoon said...

The damn fools at the Fibune. Based on local geography and their lack of political corruption coverage, you can tell that few, if any of them are native Chicagoans. Go back to Buttfuck, Iowa.

The murder occurred directly across the street from the verdant serenity of Garfield Park in 011.

(Bang, bang, bang!)

That's "shots fired" in the background. It's a 24/7 thang in these parts. BTW, there's a suspicious green man with an axe on the northwest corner of Central Park and Washington Blvd. Order a lockdown at the Gold Dome building. Zone 10 is in a RAP. No cars available. Send an elite CAPS unit.

10/05/2019 11:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

12:31 AM

Hamlin Blvd. (3800 W.) doesn't turn into Independence Blvd. until it's south of Van Buren St. (400 S.), crosses over the Ike and turns east into Douglas Blvd. (1400 S.) in 010.

10/05/2019 11:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Screw you SCC!

I took some friends to the far East side of Chicago visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Wrigleyville the other day.

You just don't know how to navigate the city, that is your problem!

10/05/2019 11:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

@1231am
It is Hamlin until the south side of Congress, then it becomes independence. Everything north of congress is still Hamlin. Regardless, it sure as shit isn’t Humboldt park.

10/05/2019 12:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hamlin & Madison?
Humboldt Park?

Been a while but coulda sworn
it was Independence & Madison
and Garfield Park...

"Hamlin" doesn't officially pick up
until north of Lake St. IIRC...

Hey...

"Realtor Cop" has been kinda
quiet lately hasn't he?


10/05/2019 12:31:00 AM

Hamlin starts at Congress kid

10/05/2019 02:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All the neighborhoods have fun new names. People from Iowa and Wisconsin are very woke.

10/05/2019 02:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Tommy t said...
The media has no clue where any neighborhood is and what the area is called their idiots

10/05/2019 10:39:00 AM
You mean "they're idiots"
And I agree
Whenever I hear the phrase "idiotic media ", I think of
The Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Sun Times
The Chicago Reporter
ANYTHING published by The Intercept, Invisible Institute, and or the Jamie Kalven clown show
Fox TV
and all of the main stream television news channels...whew...I'm all "idioted" out now...

10/05/2019 04:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
The Chicago media is a geographial knowledge and map desert. This problem affects print, tv and radio outlets.

10/05/2019 05:28:00 AM
The Chicago media is a major purveyor of lying fake news. Chicago, Washington and New York are the nations " fake news" capital.
And that includes WBEZ/NPR

10/05/2019 04:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Other than those of us that read this insignificant blog, NO ONE really cares what the geographical boundaries of Humboldt Pk are.

10/05/2019 04:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Didn’t they try to put an upscale Zayre’s store at Madison and Pulaski after the riots?

10/05/2019 09:14:00 AM


Zayre's and upscale shouldn't be used in the same sentence.

10/05/2019 06:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Screw you SCC!

I took some friends to the far East side of Chicago visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Wrigleyville the other day.

You just don't know how to navigate the city, that is your problem!

10/05/2019 11:47:00 AM


Ha ha. Did you stop the historical marker at the spot on the East side where Al Capone and his henchmen fought the forces of the law? It was such a memorable event that the band Paper Lace memorialized it in their song "The Night Chicago Died." I remember as a wee lad, my daddy told me about it too, he was a cop on the East side of Chicago, back in the bad old days.

10/05/2019 06:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
All the neighborhoods have fun new names. People from Iowa and Wisconsin are very woke.

10/05/2019 02:28:00 PM

Reside on the northwest side. 100% right. What used to be one neighborhood is now 20 or 25. I have no idea how the make up these names

10/05/2019 07:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Screw you SCC!

I took some friends to the far East side of Chicago visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Wrigleyville the other day.

You just don't know how to navigate the city, that is your problem!

10/05/2019 11:47:00 AM

hA, HA!

There are plenty of cops, millennial's, who think the center of the city is Madison Ave., instead of around 39th and Damen.

10/05/2019 08:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Citywide, Pulaski and Madison was ground zero for the April 5-8, 1968 MLK Riot. I was working 2nd watch at that intersection when it started about noon when "students" from Marshall, Austin and Farragut High Schools converged.

10/06/2019 01:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Second City Cop, I was always under the impression that Humboldt Park was in 014?? I have never known it to be in 011. I've notice this trend in news reporting as well, the media calls Grand and Lawndale H.P, not even close.

10/06/2019 07:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Didn’t they try to put an upscale Zayre’s store at Madison and Pulaski after the riots?l
10/05/2019 09:14:00 AM

“Zayre's and upscale shouldn't be used in the same sentence.”
10/05/2019 06:30:00 PM

– Zayre was ‘thee’ place to shop when they built Area 5 & 6 (BOD) in the ‘80’s when many had wore out their welcome at the shuttered Belmont & Ashland Robert Hall. This was well past when Community was to spot for detective couture.

Did you know they still have Zayre big boys suits available?
I seen one on your mayor.

10/06/2019 01:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

8:35 PM

Madison AVENUE is in Manhattan, NYC. Madison STREET is in Chicago.

10/06/2019 09:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Did you know they still have Zayre big boys suits available?
I seen one on your mayor.

10/06/2019 01:44:00 PM


I think she'd make more of a fashion statement donning Garanimals from Sears.

10/07/2019 07:46:00 PM  

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