“We have to clean up our neighborhood, too much trouble prevail. You can hear foul language, you can hear people yell. We have to clean up our neighborhood, violence is all around. So many are fighting being knocked to the ground.” These are words from a poet by Sandra Juanita Nailing entitled “Cleaning up the Neighborhood”. She gives a detailed describtion about her neighborhood, and how it is full of violence and there needs to be a change. Which is true, the changes she includes is segregation against ethic groups, politics ignoring the cries of the community, and violence plaguing the streets, in many Chicago neighborhoods.
One neighborhood in particular is the Back of the Yards. The back of the Yards is located on the Southside of Chicago …show more content…
In “The Journal of African American History” sociologist Robert Park and Jane Addams states “but there was another, highly significant phenomenon that has generally been minimized by Progressive era reformers and contemporary scholars-the mainly Irish “voting gangs,” The statement is quoting the first gang to be established in Chicago were by the Irish immigrants who settled here in the 1800s. Chicago white gangs played a more sinister role two examples of how the “athletic clubs” used gangs for racist reasons are the Irish gang located in the Bridgeport neighborhood spread terror to enforce their own Mason-Dixon Line against African Americans, but now violence has increase drastically over the …show more content…
When you ride down the neighborhood of the back of the Yards you see nothing but abandon building and gang members posted up beside them. As a result they created The Chicago Abandoned Lot Project which is according to http://www.seanparnell.com/ “community project whose purpose is to transform blighted properties in Chicago into something to be proud of by the surrounding neighborhood and everyone that cares about this great city. These troubled properties feature abandoned buildings or vacant lots that are an eyesore at best and dangerous to the community at worst.” Yet this took place in March of 2007 and
One neighborhood in particular is the Back of the Yards. The back of the Yards is located on the Southside of Chicago …show more content…
In “The Journal of African American History” sociologist Robert Park and Jane Addams states “but there was another, highly significant phenomenon that has generally been minimized by Progressive era reformers and contemporary scholars-the mainly Irish “voting gangs,” The statement is quoting the first gang to be established in Chicago were by the Irish immigrants who settled here in the 1800s. Chicago white gangs played a more sinister role two examples of how the “athletic clubs” used gangs for racist reasons are the Irish gang located in the Bridgeport neighborhood spread terror to enforce their own Mason-Dixon Line against African Americans, but now violence has increase drastically over the …show more content…
When you ride down the neighborhood of the back of the Yards you see nothing but abandon building and gang members posted up beside them. As a result they created The Chicago Abandoned Lot Project which is according to http://www.seanparnell.com/ “community project whose purpose is to transform blighted properties in Chicago into something to be proud of by the surrounding neighborhood and everyone that cares about this great city. These troubled properties feature abandoned buildings or vacant lots that are an eyesore at best and dangerous to the community at worst.” Yet this took place in March of 2007 and