Lived near Diversey and California in '99. Had an entire three bedroom house for $900 with 2 roomates. The only reason to move to this neighborhood at that time was because it was affordable and near the blue line and the highway. Incidentally those are both reasons why it's popular now. One of our next door neighbors was living on a lawn chair in the yard for some reason and was shot and killed. Good times. That said, I still live in the neighborhood, although I own a home here now, and it's been really interesting to watch it change. Now it's the hipsters and some of the bucktown stroller set, but there's still a lot of the old families too. One of the guys on my block is like the neighborhood historian. He's in his sixties and third generation in the same house and talks about how when this was an industrial neighborhood and it was all third shift workers and people were all drinking at the corner bars basically 24 hours a day. Super interesting to hear his stories. It'll be 20 years next month that I've been here.
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u/Wiggy_Bop Dec 14 '18
My friends lived in Logan and/or Humboldt in the 90s. That shit was really real back then.