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As a resident of Hammond and working in Riverdale, and living in the Calumet region over 40 years , I really enjoy your videos.

Once again we see the devastating effects of de-industrialization and the loss of manufacturing jobs which sustained communities such as this. Most who can afford to leave do so. No significant development replaces what is lost. Poverty, crime, and corruption ensue as a result. Such typical a scenario now as to be cliched.

The metal scrapyard may have been the site of National Railway Equipment (NRE). NRE was a scrapper of locomotives and also a dealer and rebuilder of them. I was a railfan back in the 1980s and 1990s. Back then my railfan buddies and I would drive down from the Northwest Side to Dolton Crossing (it was a lot safer back then) and we'd always make a side trip to NRE to see what locomotives were sitting on the siding.

Thanks Chris. Another Chicago suburb I'll be sure to avoid permanently.

Ah, Dixmoor. When you can't make it in Blue Island, you move into a trailer park in Dixmoor.

You need to do Phoenix, Illinois soon!

Dolton is soon heading there.

Thanks for the video. As a kid, I grew up in South Blue Island. Hung out In Dixmoor a lot . Sure has Changed. Now I am in Mokena. Yes and go to the town of Phoenix.

All that money should have replaced those water mains. I feel bad for the people who have to live there 😢❤

..these are great to watch ..I'm in New Zealand 🇳🇿 so its interesting to see bits of America

Wonderfully said Chris, Dixmoor will be Nomoor!!!

Another great video. I enjoy watching them !

I know the southern portion of Cook County is getting worse over the years, especially in South Side Chicago. When it comes to suburbs, Dixmoor, IL is quite a different struggling suburb in Chicagoland. I think Dixmoor has to be the most corrupt suburb in Cook County.

I remember when the suburbs used to be nice and manicured looking and now it went to ish

The water main issues are all of Thorton Township

One of the highest taxed states in the country and still can’t get it together. I’m so glad I left 40 years ago.

I used to work in posen il 9 yrs ago same mess its so sad looking especially in the night depressing

Blue Island is a popular place for train watching especially at the junction and cross-overs of Broadway St on the north side of town. There are several rusty steel bridges over the SAG -Cal Channel which make for nice photo backgrounds. There is a lot of train movements through this intersection. The area is a little on the grungy side for sure. There is a little unpaved parking area, and one of the homes has quite a nice garden growing in his backyard during the summer including a small orchard of peach trees. I did find a Dunkin' Donuts in the town proper, so how bad could it be? I forgot to ask if they had toasted coconut!😜😂 If you run out of locations in the rust belt, we have quite a few super fund sites here in New Jersey! Keep up the good work!

There is a 1997 article in the Chicago Tribune about the Dixmoor Park District having 59 police officers. They had 7 in 1994. The Park District had no office. I think the article is behind a pay wall so this is a clip "The Dixmoor Park District currently collects nearly $250,000 in taxes. Until recently, it listed as many as 59 officers on its police force, including, federal prosecutors alleged Friday, a leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang. The Park District doesn’t have an office, and its phone number is disconnected. In fact, the entire village has only one little park. Even officials at Dixmoor Village Hall aren’t sure how to contact the Park District or where to find its officers." “The last time I heard, they were in St. Mark’s Church,” said Towana Ashley, a village water clerk. "Dixmoor has just a tiny “tot lot” called Children’s Memorial Park. The park at 143rd Street and Paulina Avenue has two swing sets, a slide and a couple of plastic whales and pelicans for children to rock back and forth. There’s a fence around the swing sets, but the seats are falling off the swings, and there is no lighting in or around the park."

If you're a Harvey resident would you really want to annex Dixmoor? Thank you Chris for another entertaining video of where not to buy a home in Illinois. Gritty music fits this city perfectly.

Another great video,Chris

Love the series

My family and I live in frankfort illinois and sometimes I forget how close we live to this overflowing toilet 😂

The theme song at the start of the video sets my mind for "uh oh, here we go on this city."😂😂

Dixmoore looks better than both flint Michigan and Gary Indiana and Camden new jersey and East Cleveland Ohio, all combined into one messed up community folks thanks for listening and sharing anyway s😊

Took a quick look on Google maps seeing if there was some rail infrastructure that could be at least some help to the town a bit and saw a number of spur lines which looked promising. Switched to satellite view and found that they were all overgrown and long out of service. Oh well.

Fascinating history

Well I have had quite a day viewing your videos...from Santa Barbara Beautiful and Unaffordable to this. Very disparate places and both handled very well by you...amazing. Corruption is often about kicking others when they are already down...despicable. I thought about your prophetic livability score in many different places while driving through Chicagoland on a recent visit. Thanks to you I am seeing places more deeply and thoughtfully.

I love your videos especially all your Illinois videos, it saves me time and curiosity of driving into these places. Why I love the ghetto, sorry deindustrialized and abandoned places can be something people should see and has political and economic lessons involved.

My great grandparents lived on Wood Street, but in Harvey. Bet it's a vacant lot today. One way to find out.

Chicago suburbs especially southern and some western suburbs have been going downhill over the past years only good chicago suburbs are Hinsdale,Clarendon Hills,La Grange, Western Springs, Oak brook, Elmhurst, Willow springs pretty much all the higher class suburbs

Sad that folks are so poor that they can't afford to board up their homes and move away from those corrupt, dying cities. No wonder there's liquor stores on every corner. I'd be drunk all the time if I had to live there too.

I truly believe that the suburbs went to hell when the projectd started coming doen in the 90s. Everybody started moving towards the suburbs and my hometown Hammond. We definitely saw a difference out there so i can only imagine hownit affected the other suburbs

You are not mediocre, Chris. I’m from Scandinavia, and I enjoy your videos and information 😊

That is a sad, bleak place. I can only imagine what it's like in the middle of winter...😢

Dixmoor had a volunteer fire department.

I deliver cardboard to a company in Dixmoor all the time. Yep the whole region is trashed. Dixmoor, Harvey, Blue Island, Posen, Calumet City, Dolton, Sauk Village, Chicago Heights, Homewood, Markham, South Holland and many more are all sadly trashed.

The better question should be "Is their any city that isn't corrupt in Illinois"?

Sounds like Jackson Mississippi

Ha ha, you drove right by "Dimoor Meat Market". That came up first in my search of this town. South Side Chicago and it's troubled suburbs are a national embarrassment.

11:39 why does this sound like it can happen today!!!! Sounds just like what we been going thru the past couple of years

My guess if the highway wasn't running through Dixmoor it would be in far worse shape. but still a very good video Chris

Dixmoor Meat Market been selling bad meat since the 80’s!

Your RAM upgrade "Saved the Business"...

It's like a mini Flint, Michigan. So sad

Don't forget where you came from. It's not where you from, its how you come!

Mannn most of the southern Cook County suburbs are in disarray. Thank goodness the western suburbs are in a much better shape and look a hell of alot better esthetically

I could see Dixmoor split in two where the trailer park and junkyard side will go to Blue Island and even some unincorporated areas of blue island. And the areas south of the third set of tracks south of the junkyards can go to Harvey. Basically along racial lines the north is mostly Hispanic and White the south is mostly Black. But as more people move out of Dixmoor I can also see demographics changes in the town as more Hispanics/immigrants moving into places like Blue Island Posen and creeping eastward towards these areas and Harvey.

That’s horrible.

Not to mention the water mains keep breaking leaving people without water..

It was a forging company and that’s a steam plant for their steam hammers not a coal plant.

If you live in Oakland California, dixmoor looks like the place to be!.

If dixmoore residents want help with there water supply problems flint Michigan people know exactly how they feel from past years of flooding drought like policies from there corrupt politicians who are in charge of the town😮

Well done

Hi Chris I want to know do you ever do the city tours lived on the southeast side of Chicago my hold life. The history when I lived there the southeast side alway been nice middle class after the 90 it started to go down bad it would be great if you do one

Can u do phoenix IL

Pritzker he is an anecdotally nightmare for Illinois I don't believe Pritzker was ever in East St Louis Illinois I used anecdotally as a substitute word for something else because Pritzker he gets my blood boiling and I'm not over in Illinois I'm in Missouri. I have friends and family trapped in Illinois and I can't afford to get them out. Dexter Lombardo out 🤠🧔 Great video next time do Northbrook Illinois they cook the books too they live behind those gates in those gated communities they are bad people.

Send migrants there. Then you will see how fast the government fixes the water issue.

Your right I was wrong all three of those comments on Those communities are not as bad as dixmoore .on the other hand ✋ hand i could be wrong 😑 that’s a wrap up Folks for today’s world history lesson as always Chris your videos are amazing 😊😊😊😊

When I was working as a teacher in Harvey and had to go to a meeting at another school and drove through Dix more I got stopped by two police officers for going 10 miles over the speeding limit

Could it revert to agriculture?

Go check out Robbins . Where Robbin' is what they love to do there 😂

I remember when moving to certain south suburban towns were a sign that you made it. A status symbol, if you will. Now, whether you're in the city or the suburbs, it's basically one in the same.😞

I always get dixmoor and Posen mixed up with each other.

All of these Crap South Suburbs have 1 thing in common. Can you guess what that could be ?

What needs to be done with 90% of these kinda areas is all remaining residents should be given money to relocate and the land should be completely cleared and reverted back to farmland. We're literally wasting billions and billions of dollars every year trying to keep these kinda suburbs afloat for what exactly? Trying to keep these alive would be like trying to keep a store like Kmart open that only sees 4 customers per day. There comes a point when its time to just turn off the lights and abandoned the whole property.

Tyffany henyard is going through Dolton like crap through a goose 😅 gimme dat mutha phuqa!

You should do blue Island. I live on broadway and old western

I liked when you said " these people" never do lol 😆

it really should be annexed, there's no point in it existing on its own at that size, the fact it *can't* exist on its own. it doesn't sound as if there would be a lot of government redundancy to eliminate.

There's plenty of money in the public pensions to solve the water problem in the south suburbs.

Hello 👋🏿 Chris, am I wrong or doesn’t The Village of Dixmoor have a commercial zone with a strip mall somewhere around Dixie Hwy Northeast of 147 street?

After all the property taxes are behind, the houses foreclosed, they can put down gravel for a big tent camp. It’s gonna be great!

What comes to these towns first, Democrats or despair?

Local Government sounds about like Detroit was when Kwame was in there. Knew a fellow that got his tail in a ringer because he had dealings with Kwame, had a lot of money too henceforth why K. cuddled up to him. Crooks all.

Dixmoor has few taxpayers. Too few to make it as a city. Couldn't even have a decent riot in Dixmoor. Better to buy out and level almost all the homes and streets/sidewalks and return the land to Agriculture.

The music is pretty good ! But it seems like it’s being played to pad the videos to 30 minutes . Maybe better for monetization ?

Why is it so easy to not have to answer to anyone for embezzling money? Because in Illinois, there are no consequences...or so folk think...

I know why this mayor won't be investigated. You know why, too. But we have manners and we don't need to say it out loud. Just know that we know. And we are keeping account for when the temperature in the country is right. Accountability will be meted out, justice served.

Dixmoor taxes are expected to increase 122% in 2025

Thank God for living rural, no city water for me! Well water with high water tables! 🤪

Do some videos of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.

What is that huge cluster of buildings in the background at 0:59?! Just kidding.

Do a video on Lake Forest. I hear that place is a dump.

Hey Chris, Your Shit is too gloomy boy.I move to different subjects starting now!☹️

Thats too bad about the steel manufacturing back in the 80 s i became a certified welder and did it for 3 years.not healthy but fun .

Blue island still standing strong for now 💀💪

You're not "poor shaming" like some other channel, "world according to (redacted)", OTOH, outsiders need to know Chicago area is not all "rust belt". We got may thriving communities, all over.

Ok now do Robbins,IL

If Chicago continues its path, the entire state of Illinois will be vacated.

Would love to see a video about Midlothian IL. Familiar with all of these towns.

I'd really appreciate if you had a livability score indicating the availability of sex industry. Stuff like street walkers, gentlemen's clubs, and shady massage parlors.

@ChrisHarden You title should say "its last legs" instead of "it's last legs." As it is written now, your title reads "it is last legs." Please fix it promptly.

So you're saying Dixmoor has a drinking problem? 😁

Why do towns name there town after there water tank ?

u all dix, u too chris :D

A feeding pen for the zombie apocalypse.

At least it's NOT Ford Heights or some of the near South-East HOODS of Rockford!!!😮

if there is shitheads, its blighted!!!