hardware ghost
NE corner of 67th Street and Blackstone (1500 E. 67th St.,built in 1908; 1508 E. 67th St., built in 1918)
www.chicagonow.com/i-hate-my-developer/2012/08/the-ctas-b...
"67th and Blackstone may be only a few blocks away from my home but it often feels like it's in another world.
Last night, around the time I was coming in, a drive by shooting critically wounded a female bystander near that intersection.
If the story had not been in the news this morning, I probably would have missed it entirely.
I didn't hear a crash. I didn't hear any extra police activity. I didn't feel a single police helicopter buzz my building.
As of post time, the suspected shooter remains at large.
Many things about this drive by scares me; the fact that it's the second such incident that happened this summer and the third overall at or near that corner.
The fact that the intersection of 67th & Blackstone is only a few blocks from my home and is easily walkable.
The fact that the intersection is very close to our neighborhood Walgreens.
The fact that the intersection is on the eastern property line of a fire station parking lot. I worry about the safety of the firemen and residents with in a one block radius of this foolishness.
Most of all I worry about the safety of those of us simply coming and going about our business.
Apparently there is a gang war going on."
hardware ghost
NE corner of 67th Street and Blackstone (1500 E. 67th St.,built in 1908; 1508 E. 67th St., built in 1918)
www.chicagonow.com/i-hate-my-developer/2012/08/the-ctas-b...
"67th and Blackstone may be only a few blocks away from my home but it often feels like it's in another world.
Last night, around the time I was coming in, a drive by shooting critically wounded a female bystander near that intersection.
If the story had not been in the news this morning, I probably would have missed it entirely.
I didn't hear a crash. I didn't hear any extra police activity. I didn't feel a single police helicopter buzz my building.
As of post time, the suspected shooter remains at large.
Many things about this drive by scares me; the fact that it's the second such incident that happened this summer and the third overall at or near that corner.
The fact that the intersection of 67th & Blackstone is only a few blocks from my home and is easily walkable.
The fact that the intersection is very close to our neighborhood Walgreens.
The fact that the intersection is on the eastern property line of a fire station parking lot. I worry about the safety of the firemen and residents with in a one block radius of this foolishness.
Most of all I worry about the safety of those of us simply coming and going about our business.
Apparently there is a gang war going on."