Why "O'Block" is Totally Forbidden | Chicago History

Thumbs down on this video because I got interrupted by the, "Got it?" Censorship button!

Proud person of the southside, and the rich history and values that were established on me from birth! The PJs hold a lot of love, but if the people were supported, and not put down things would be better! We all know that, the government doesn't fund areas like this, to get rid of the people, and totally change it back to the way it was. The same happens here in NYC, and all of the cities that were populated by the migration. Blacks were always pushed aside, and treated unfairly in the north before it happened, and after! It was not as peachy as the south was taught it was, but it definitely created lots of successful businesses, artists, and more! I can't wait till I'm able to return an give back to my community

Such a tragic history for that area. Their best bet would be to stop celebrating that degenerate culture, but to rise above it. Their ancestors came there for a better life, not to become participants in criminality. Leaving that area would probably be the best choice.

Now it’s the murder capital of America.

20,000 people in that complex wow

"Criminal Americans"

It's no mystery why this place is the way it is its the people they are the ones that made it the way it is its the people there you can make what ever excuses you want it doesn't change the facts and this isn't the only place like this and the one thing about other places like this is exactly the same THE PEOPLE

He calls this a neighborhood?

Neglected children, who are LITERALLY from the exact same area/part of town, killing each other over virtually nothing. O blocks #1 Opp was a young teenage girl 😅, shit's not gangster on any level just sad.

I was looking for Charliebo 😂

Thanks for this detailed info. Well done

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman...

Working nights in that railyard was....an experience.

Looks like backrooms

Imagine being proud of your neighborhood being the worse 😂.

Give them freedom and they turn it into disaster

Some People Just Don't Know, or Understand How to Build and Maintain a Safe and Productive Community.
And it's Easy to Choose the Negative Destructive Way.

Who are these guys?

I read somewhere (another source) that Santa Claus fies in there in an Apache helicopter and Rudolph's nose is a Vulcan Cannon.
Of course this is not true.

Ever why these places become ghettos and abandoned

i like how the trash heap picture shows only two items on the ground and a full dumpster and 4 smaller bins. probably garbage pickup day? lol these apartments look like gold compared to northern canada. this is the hood? what!?

Chicago is proof that they can’t police themselves and don’t want better for themselves.

I remember going to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in the late 1970's. Came into town from the North by rail, then took a city bus to the museum. I could not believe the area I was riding through, It was something that I've only seen in magazines. To see it go on for blocks and blocks was crazy. I had a strong feeling I did not belong there and have never returned. I was the only white guy on one of the buss4es through South Chicago, and nobody on the bus looked friendly. In the back of the bus, weed was smoked, which in the 1970's was highly illegal, but obviously not enforced.

not humans

blacks !!!

Thank you for speaking the truth. Change starts there.

Yeah it culminated rappers that snitched on themselves in their songs. Really awesome and note Worthy

Why don't they do something with it today Chicago is mostly ran by African Americans, what's stopping them from making it better, its 2024 i think the rest of the country would rally behind them to help and nobody would stand in the way. We gotta all come together and make our country better

I lived in a Cincinnati hood for several years during my youth. They were known as English woods. It was about 95% poor whites.

I think this was a good topic but the segue to your sponsor was just tacky. About holidays and family in O Block. You could have saved the sponsor for a different video. Otherwise great presentation as always.

Well, I guess someone will see this in another hundred years and see how that goes.

Weak.

Pretty crazy how all these cities are still segregated

Zoo

Good video.

The inevitable decline of Chicago occurred when the Projects throughout the city were torn down and the "gangster's" were distributed throughout the city into the middle class working neighborhoods only to destroy those neighborhoods as well. Segregation worked for many years...kept people safe and crime was contained in manageable blocks....look where liberal politics got you. People of Illinois deserve everything they get as they continue to elect incompetent and corrupt leaders.

They're all self proclaimed "rappers". Such a mindless type of people. No talent, whatsoever.

The Thug Life..every town has an O block and a MLK blvd..

Fatherless Families = violent crime

A sad version of Bauhaus.

This video has 187k views as of today 2/3/24. Sad but fitting.

Pretty incredible those buildings are 100 years old

From '98-01 I attended dozens of raves at Route66 roller rink on 66th and MLK and for a bunch of teenage white kids with colored hair, giant pants, stuffed animals, glow sticks etc it seemed like a sketchy area. I saw a man in purple suite smash a 40oz over another guys head in the middle of the intersection and we heard fights and a few shots in the distance from time to time. But we could usually wait in a long line to enter the venue for like an hour without any problems. same with Dolton, Harvey and Logan Sq.

just like Cobrini Green filthy and glad when its gone

I can't understand why they don't have a police officer sitting at the entrance in a booth to check all that enter. The police should get out of their cars and walk a beat ( like they did in the past ) and patrol these streets and apartment complexes?

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RYaN! I work directly under the ambassador bridge for the mourouns (bridge owners) at a cement company heres a great video idea if you Google Earth the Detroit river (Detroit side just 500 ft south of the bridge) you'll see an entire sunken barge right below the surface and a dock to unload train cars from Canada it's pretty cool you should do

Man shots out too you for putting an actual history too a hood that's not about how much drugs they used to sell back in so n so