I lived in Chicago for 14 years, and the West side did me in. The South side is really kind of nice...even at Night. I love the South Park Blvd., converted to King Drive years ago. I like the Operation Push Church with it's beautiful pillars at 51st and Drexel and the black iron fence around it. Lot of trees in South side. A wonderful JacksonPark golf course...the left overs of the UofC and Worlds Fair Science and Industry Museum which was FREE for the longest time. The U of Chicago campus looks like an English old Cambridge with super hospitals and a statue to Mr. Teller which looks like a grey Mushroom. Yes, the Southside has or had the "El Rukns" group...I have known Kiwanis or john birch groups that can hurt you more, maybe. The White Sox play "Bill Veeck baseball" on Sundays...lol. But don't walk on the West Side, west of the Chicago Bulls house which Willard Wirtz built. But lord knows anyone has "rights to walk" through and into my "Italian Polish area"..