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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2638518" data-attributes="member: 1515">Yeah, sounds like either South Side or the ungentrified North Side neighborhoods.  My wife used to teach up near the intersection of Irving Park and Pulaski, and that's very much a working-class neighborhood (and very Polish).Here's a map of the Chicago neighborhoods:<a href="http://www.seanparnell.com/Chicago/Chicago%20Neighborhood%20Map.htm" target="_blank">http://www.seanparnell.com/Chicago/Chicago Neighborhood Map.htm</a>The north-side neighborhoods I'm thinking of are Irving Park and Portage Park.Looking at some of the south side neighborhoods:- Bridgeport is where Mayor Daley's family is from; it's still a working-class neighborhood- Hyde Park is where the University of Chicago is locatedBy and large, the south side neighborhoods aren't terribly wealthy.That'd be a good one.  Another good one could be the big atrium at Union Station (if you've seen Kevin Costner movie "The Untouchables", it's where they have the slow-motion shootout with the baby carriage bouncing down the stairs).  Or, the observation deck at either the Sears Tower or the John Hancock Building -- they're both glassed-in, but a spell or gunfire could blow out a window, inviting the possibility of a 1000-foot drop. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The typical Chicago cop, IME, is middle-aged, burly, and looks Irish, though there's a lot of Hispanic ones now, too.There's 20-odd police districts in Chicago; far more likely that they'd be hauled to the district HQ for wherever they get arrested.  The map is:<a href="http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/WebDistMap.pdf" target="_blank">http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/WebDistMap.pdf</a>A list of all the districts, with links to each one, is at:<a href="http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalDeptCategoryAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@1268282080.1128791486@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddfkffmgelcefecelldffhdfgm.0&deptCategoryOID=-9961&contentType=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Dept&entityName=Police&deptMainCategoryOID=-9079" target="_blank">http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalDeptCategoryAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@1268282080.1128791486@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddfkffmgelcefecelldffhdfgm.0&deptCategoryOID=-9961&contentType=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Dept&entityName=Police&deptMainCategoryOID=-9079</a>Hope this helps!</blockquote>

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