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View Poll Results: What neighborhood do you think will be the next Lincoln Park ?
Bronzeville/Douglas 1 3.70%
Hyde Park/Kenwood 0 0%
Logan Square 3 11.11%
Roger Park 0 0%
Uptown 1 3.70%
Wicker Park/Bucktown 14 51.85%
Humboldt Park 0 0%
Edgewater 2 7.41%
Bridgeport 1 3.70%
West Ridge 1 3.70%
South Loop 3 11.11%
Pilsen 0 0%
Others 1 3.70%
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:48 AM
 
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Wicker Park and Bucktown already "out Lincoln Park" Lincoln Park in many ways...
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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I don't know - there are prostitutes doing business in the empty basement apt. of my "heart" of Wicker Park building ... does that happen in Lincoln Park?
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Old 07-11-2008, 11:24 AM
 
Location: SE PDX
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I don't know - there are prostitutes doing business in the empty basement apt. of my "heart" of Wicker Park building ... does that happen in Lincoln Park?
Two known prostitutes in the area screamed out at me a few blocks east of Damen on North ave. They congregate at the Citgo gas station.
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Old 07-11-2008, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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Probably the same ones... I live very close. I blame my management company for not securing the basement properly.
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Old 07-11-2008, 12:52 PM
 
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The prostitutes may not be picked up in Lincoln Park, but they're still doing business there.
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Old 07-11-2008, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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Oh I am sure. It's silly and probably naive to think they're not everywhere. I'm just pissed about that right now... and I do think WP has more grit than LP in the time I've spent in both of them.
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Old 07-11-2008, 01:25 PM
 
Location: SE PDX
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Oh I am sure. It's silly and probably naive to think they're not everywhere. I'm just pissed about that right now... and I do think WP has more grit than LP in the time I've spent in both of them.
WP is definitely grittier than LP there is no doubt about it. You are safe anywhere on Milwaukee between ashland and damen... you are safe on division between ashland and damen. it is gritty in North ave between Ashland & Damen. The prostitutes cruise the triangle in WP. Ashland to north to milwaukee back to ashland. And the area in bucktown from 90 to North ave on Damen is shady. Alot of homeless people around there.
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Old 07-11-2008, 05:46 PM
 
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The hookers have been on North Ave in Wicker Park for decades. There are just fewer now and a bit less obvious.
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Old 07-11-2008, 08:03 PM
 
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The hookers have been on North Ave in Wicker Park for decades. There are just fewer now and a bit less obvious.
When my wife lived on North Ave. in the 90s, some hookers were turning tricks IN HER CAR while it was parked for a couple of weeks. She's got a lot of good hooker stories from her North Avenue days, but most of the "ladies of the night" are long gone from North Avenue now. I see them on Division from time to time, though. I saw a bust go down on Division a couple of years ago from the window of a local bar. Kind of entertaining.
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Old 07-11-2008, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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When my wife lived on North Ave. in the 90s, some hookers were turning tricks IN HER CAR while it was parked for a couple of weeks. She's got a lot of good hooker stories from her North Avenue days, but most of the "ladies of the night" are long gone from North Avenue now. I see them on Division from time to time, though. I saw a bust go down on Division a couple of years ago from the window of a local bar. Kind of entertaining.
There used to be a few that loved to hang out near the bridge over the river on North Ave. They used to be all up and down Clybourn also. North and Clybourn was the epicenter of hooker activity in the Near North Side.

The ones east of the River are mostly gone, but a decent number of the ones along North Ave in Wicker Park, Bucktown, Humboldt Park and Austin are all still around. Believe it or not there are hookers in Gold Coast still too-it takes a trained eye to spot them.The ones in Wicker and Bucktown are not as indentifiable as they once were.

The hooks like Western too south of North Ave.

I could tell you many of the places the hookers used to be in the city (and still are), not because I used them, but because I have been driving around much of the city very frequently for 17 years.
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