Midway travel question

Zinhead
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 01:39:53 +0000

@JHS - Thanks for your previous post. The northern part of “New Town” consists of the Stockyards Industrial Park. As you can imagine, not many people live in the industrial park, and crime in this area is low. The southern part of “New Town” consists of housing stock, demographics and crime virtually indistinguishable from Englewood.

If you look at the following interactive map that tracks shootings, the area of the Stockyards (between Halsted and Ashland between 35th and 47th Streets) has almost no shootings. In contrast, the residential area south of 47th between Halsted and Ashland has nearly the same density of shootings as the Englewood area south of 55th Street.

http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/

As for the 55, the stop at the Red Line was listed as one of the four most dangerous stops in the system.

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/March-2014/Worst-Bus-Stops/

A 2013 local news station study found the 55 Garfield route to be the most crime-ridden CTA bus route.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/13/2-investigators-cta-keeps-crime-bulletins-under-wraps/

From these same bulletins, CBS 2 found the most bus crimes on the 55 Garfield route.

If you disagree with CBS 2, I suggest you contact them and let the station know. Maybe you can explain to them how their methodology was flawed.