What is the Worse Neighborhood in Chicago?

[corarose]

Out of curiosity what neighborhood is rated the worse in the Chicago area. What I mean is which one has the highest crime rates?

I moved back to Chicago a little over a year ago and I was wondering what neighborhoods were considered unsafe?

[papau]

1. just outside the Loop has always been a bit poor as to safety

And the U of C area (53rd to 61 st) - the school recommends a buddy system plus dogs - or at least it did 25 years ago (not that I am old! :-) )

And of course the far south - just beyond the Chicago line - always had some interesting stories.

[Nikia]

2. Not sure

The neighborhood that we got lost in because we took a later exit after missing our exit looked pretty scary. There were bars on all the local businesses. There were no banks or department stores. Lot's of check cashing services. The only nice looking building was a funeral home. The only two women we noticed might have been prostitutes because they were dressed like that. There were lots of young men standing around. A few of them were surrounded by four police cars and they had their hands in the air. That was in the southern part of Chicago, a few miles before the bridge that goes out of Illinois. I don't know if it was the worst but I wouldn't recommend living there to anyone I cared about.
My sister lives in the Northern part of Chicago close to O'Hare. From the map and neighborhood decriptions on the websites, I think it is Albany Park, but I'm not positive. She lives in a one bedroom apartment off of Bryn Mawr close to the train for $725 per month. She had moved about a mile from her old cheaper apartment, a studio for $600 per month. She thinks it is a pretty safe neighborhood. If you are looking for a place to move, that's a possible alternative.

[mopinko]

3. here's a website

it's the chgo pd crime stat site, called citizen icam.
http://12.17.79.6/
personally, i have lived in chicago for over 20 years, and have had very few bad things happen to me. i have never been careful about where i go. if a shortcut through cabrini green will get me out of the traffic, i will take it. i live in rogers park, which is regularly referred to in the media as "gang infested" and "crime ridden" and shit does happen here. but it seems to me to mostly be bad guy on bad guy stuff. i love my neighborhood. it is filled with nice, interesting people. i was raised in a nice "safe" suburb, and let me tell you it was B-O-R-I-N-G. i would rather live here in the real world.