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Okay, let’s have a bit of a reality check here. There’s been a 37% rise in shooting-related homicides in Chicago. It has been overwhelmingly in poverty-stricken neighborhoods on the south or far west side. The majority of the victims have been young, black men.

Logan Square is about pretty gentrified at this point. Not on the same level as Bucktown or Wicker Park, but it’s on its way. Young, black, poor men are sort of thin on the ground in Logan Square, as are incidents of gun-related violence. From what I’ve heard, until 2008 or so, the majority of its population was a mix of working- and middle-class Latinos, which have been increasingly forced out as young creative-class white people have moved in.

This increase in the crime rate really hasn’t affected young creative-class people of the type who go on Tumblr and make snarky-ass posters.

Not to say that Logan doesn’t have its problems. This should probably read “Stay because you got stabbed, mugged, or sexually assaulted on the street!”

Just saying.