13 Mar
2002
13 Mar
'02
5:50 p.m.
No problems like that in Winnipegosis, but I always found that if you look
prosperous in a deprived area you were asking for trouble.
Lawrence
IIT is around 33rd Street, near the White Sox ball
park; MSI is at 57th
street, 3 miles to the south and just east of the University of Chicago (8
hundreds, e.g. 32nd Street to 40th Street, is a mile) The MSI is about 2
miles _east_ of Michigan Ave. Best way to get there is by Lake Shore Drive. You
can get to IIT from the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Neither area is that safe at night. During the day, the IIT campus itself is OK,
but the area around it has a number of housing projects. The area north and west
of the University of Chicago/MSI is a bit dicey, also.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright@uiuc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:48 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Interesting places in Chicago area?
Russ Blakeman said:
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lgwalker(a)mts.net
bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com
On the BW map you'll see where Ill Inst of tech is (known as IIT) - that's the
general area where MSI is at - it should be just east of IIT on 55th.
Of
course there are other ways too, like going
downtown when you dome into
the
city on I-290 then going south on Michigan Ave
(less of "the hood" to to
go
thru, a lot longer trip)
Yeah...but don't go visit IIT. seriously. the museum is on the museum
campus
by the lake, which is pretty safe and nice, but you REALLY don't want to go much
west of there, especially if you're not from the area...
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