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France issues travel warning to Parts of Chicago.

France Warns Tourists Visiting Chicago To Avoid City's South And West Sides (PHOTOS)

What does everyone make of this? Having visited the city on a number of occasions i'm sad because it really is a great city to visit. Given the high number of murders, shootings etc is the warning warranted or is it an overrecation? Interested to hear from everyone but especially from posters who live or grew up in the Chicago.

I don't know why Huffpost made a big deal of this. There are state department warnings for most every place on earth. So we have cities with crappy neighborhoods and France wants to keep their less travel-savvy citizens out of them. Is that so shocking?
 
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I would think O'Hare alone would warrant a travel warning.

I've been there a few times, wasn't very impressed (the french should just visit paris instead), but didn't sense it was dangerous.
 
France Warns Tourists Visiting Chicago To Avoid City's South And West Sides (PHOTOS)

What does everyone make of this? Having visited the city on a number of occasions i'm sad because it really is a great city to visit. Given the high number of murders, shootings etc is the warning warranted or is it an overrecation? Interested to hear from everyone but especially from posters who live or grew up in the Chicago.
It's best just to avoid the whole city.

Everyone should avoid the whole city.
 
France Warns Tourists Visiting Chicago To Avoid City's South And West Sides (PHOTOS)

What does everyone make of this? Having visited the city on a number of occasions i'm sad because it really is a great city to visit. Given the high number of murders, shootings etc is the warning warranted or is it an overrecation? Interested to hear from everyone but especially from posters who live or grew up in the Chicago.
Absolutely, the gangsters that have been running that city into the ground the 40 years ought to be shot. South side of Chicago is a ****ing sewer, I have driven through it myself several times. Anyone know where Chicago State University is? Yeah, that's what I mean. Rahm Emmanuel ought to fired out of that city on a missile.
 
Why should it be surprising that a foreign government would do what our government does warning its citizens about problem areas in the area that they may visit.
 
South Chicago, South Boston, South L.A., what is it with the southern parts of cities being crappy?
 
There are area of Chicago that are very dangerous. But any rational person would recognize they are in a bad area. This would be particularly true for white foreign tourists
 
They should ban guns and violence in Chicago. That should fix it.


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France Warns Tourists Visiting Chicago To Avoid City's South And West Sides (PHOTOS)

What does everyone make of this? Having visited the city on a number of occasions i'm sad because it really is a great city to visit. Given the high number of murders, shootings etc is the warning warranted or is it an overrecation? Interested to hear from everyone but especially from posters who live or grew up in the Chicago.

There are large swaths of Chicago that are okay, but if you follow the Chicago Tribune or CBS local Chicago, you'll notice the areas of that city that is unsafe, and is the primary reason for Chicago being the murder capital of the United States: FBI: Chicago passes New York as murder capital of U.S.

While some may get uppity about the French telling their citizens to be cautious or to avoid certain areas of the U.S., first thing, we (State Department) do the same thing and the places that are highlighted ARE dangerous.
 
South Chicago, South Boston, South L.A., what is it with the southern parts of cities being crappy?

There's a trickle down economics joke in there somewhere…
 
I actually want all the French people possible to visit the south side of Chicago.

It seems they're on to us. We need a new plan.
 
I spent three years living in Iraq, obviously I'm still here to talk about it, and it has some amazing sites to see and people to meet.
That doesn't make it any less dangerous.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, up sharply from the 431 recorded in 2011. That certainly seems like something that would warrant a travel warning to me.
 
France Warns Tourists Visiting Chicago To Avoid City's South And West Sides (PHOTOS)

What does everyone make of this? Having visited the city on a number of occasions i'm sad because it really is a great city to visit. Given the high number of murders, shootings etc is the warning warranted or is it an overrecation? Interested to hear from everyone but especially from posters who live or grew up in the Chicago.




This is not an over-reaction, it's an absolutely reasonable warning.

I have to wonder if a similar warning was issued for other cities in the USA, like Detroit.

If not, someone didn't do their job.
 
They should ban guns and violence in Chicago. That should fix it.


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What they need to ban is violent people who kill others for no good reason.

You don't have to have a gun to kill someone, a brick will get the job done.
 
If this stuff keeps happening, Chicago won't get the Olympics even if Obama makes a personal appeal.
 
It seems they're on to us. We need a new plan.

Cripe, it's France - they are scared of their own shadow.

Their were some Ohio areas in their weak-kneed warning, also.

Cue French jokes.....
 
Cripe, it's France - they are scared of their own shadow.

Their were some Ohio areas in their weak-kneed warning, also.

Cue French jokes.....

I went to Chicago and all I got to show for it where cold, limp phrench phries.
 
Absolutely, the gangsters that have been running that city into the ground the 40 years ought to be shot. South side of Chicago is a ****ing sewer, I have driven through it myself several times. Anyone know where Chicago State University is? Yeah, that's what I mean. Rahm Emmanuel ought to fired out of that city on a missile.
You're wrong. There are a lot of communities on the South side that are affluent. The West side, NOW THAT'S a sewer.
 
Now for all you good ole country boys.....should you get caught in one of these neighborhoods. Whatever you do.....don't try to play Dead like ya do with a bear. Nor, don't try to play possum either. :lol:

Speak slow and clearly.....keep your hands in front of you. Don't smile and don't look any of them in the face. Just keep on walking until you get out of there. Don't run.....walk.
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Until they want to play knock out. Then while you lay there unconscious rob you of everything you have on you.
 
What they need to ban is violent people who kill others for no good reason.

You don't have to have a gun to kill someone, a brick will get the job done.

I know, I was being sarcastic. Everything is banned in Chicago, doesn't seem to stop anything.

If anything, they should close down FOPA, give the citizens the ability to defend themselves with equal firepower. Self solving problem IMO. I'm not advocating vigilantism, but....I'm certainly not opposed to the community taking back what is theirs from the dredges of society.

The people most effected by anti-self defense legislation and the discouragement of self help isn't the suburban soccer mom, it's the inner city blue collar minority family that gets their apartment broken into once a month. The single mom going to school living in south side that is a victim of violence. It's open season on the law abiding citizen out there, and the criminal is the undisputed apex predator. Mandatory sentencing is a pretty start, but who pays for the 55K a year it costs to keep these guys in jail? It's a hell of a lot cheaper to hand out some hardware and give an open letter to criminals reading the words "Good luck, you're going to need it". I like that approach. If the criminals thought for a second that every other person they attempt to target may or may not put two in their chest...exponential crime rate drop.

Or, we could create thunderdome, offer a grand prize, have criminal record prerequisites....televise it? I'm a capitalist, and opportunist, and I understand how depraved people are. Might as well cater to all three whilst saving the tax payer a fortune. Make the prize substantial. I'm sure they'll come out the woodwork.
 
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Absolutely, the gangsters that have been running that city into the ground the 40 years ought to be shot. South side of Chicago is a ****ing sewer, I have driven through it myself several times. Anyone know where Chicago State University is? Yeah, that's what I mean. Rahm Emmanuel ought to fired out of that city on a missile.

Yeah... Chicago wasn't a dump 80 years ago when they had Al Capone running the show or when the North Side Gang was there or when the christian conservative led prohibition era turned it into a gold mine for criminals. It only turned into one 40 years ago. Hey, don't be a partisan hack or anything. We wouldn't want you to become honest about metropolitan cities and blame something other than liberals for their decline.
 
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Yeah... Chicago wasn't a dump 80 years ago when they had Al Capone running the show or when the North Side Gang was there or when the christian conservative led prohibition era turned it into a gold mine for criminals. It only turned into one 40 years ago. Hey, don't be a partisan hack or anything. We wouldn't want you to become honest about metropolitan cities and blame something other than liberals for their decline.
IMO the most important difference between the gangs then and now is that the gangs then were killing each other. It was extremely rare when an innocent bystander was killed. A child getting mowed down in crossfire was unheard of.
 
Well, I took a wrong turn onto a bridge in San Francisco a couple of years ago and had to drive down into the community to find a way back. When I stopped for directions from a pedestrian the friendly black lady looked at me in shock and said: "You know, Sir, you shouldn't be here?"

I got off on the wrong off ramp on the 110 in South L.A. and the cops made a felony stop. After jacking me up for DWW, I was told I had no business being in the hood.

I thanked the LAPD for probably saving me from being car-jacked, robbed and cold cocked.
 
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