Talk:East Garfield Park, Chicago

Illinois Low‑importance

	Illinois portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Illinois, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Illinois on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IllinoisWikipedia:WikiProject IllinoisTemplate:WikiProject IllinoisWikiProject Illinois
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Chicago Mid‑importance

	Chicago portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chicago, which aims to improve all articles or pages related to Chicago or the Chicago metropolitan area.ChicagoWikipedia:WikiProject ChicagoTemplate:WikiProject ChicagoChicago
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

It is requested that a photograph of Laura Ward Elementary School (former Martin Ryerson Elementary School): 646 Lawndale Ave, Chicago, IL 60624 be included in this article to improve its quality.

Wikipedians in Chicago may be able to help!

The external tool WordPress Openverse may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Upload

Untitled

While East Garfield Park may be featuring low levels of gentrification, despite the proclamations of newsweek, it is still very much an isolated, high poverty neighborhood. I live nearby and travel to the community frequently.

While gentrification is certainly a part of EGP recent history, this article gives it way too much importance, ignoring the serious plight of its residents. I would suggest that gentrification should play only a minor part in any entry on gafield park 71.194.186.73 08:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC)jp[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on East Garfield Park, Chicago. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:58, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Crime statistic link is dead

The Chicago Tribune reference in the Crime section of this page, covering 2014 crime rates, no longer has the mentioned content. It's not elsewhere on their site or in any archive. So, the material must be regarded as unverified per Wikipedia and I've marked it as such.

Here, for the record, is the original reference:

<ref>{{cite web | title=Crime in Chicagoland - East Garfield Park | publisher=chicagotribune.com | url=http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/community/east-garfield-park}}</ref>

If you can find that material anywhere, please fix the citation. Thanks. Alternatively, I may come back and add something based on newer crime data. IntegrityPen (talk) 02:40, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Crime section

Removed the Crime section. None of the text in the Crime section was verifiable, due to uncited claims or dead citation links. In addition, other community area pages do not have similar crime sections, even those with higher per capita 2020 total reported crime rates. Per capita crime reporting is also tricky because some community areas have low populations and small changes in crime counts can heavily impact per capita rankings. Finally, crime statistics can be broken down by total reported crimes, sexual assaults, robberies, homicides, etc. and fluctuate dramatically from year to year; it would require more than a few sentences to adequately report on this across the 77 community areas and update it each year. (Oh, and if you look at the data, most crimes in East Garfield Park are petty crimes in the larger scheme of things, induced by economic inequality, systemic racism, etc., e.g. possession of small amounts of drugs, loitering and public intoxication.)

For the record, here is the deleted section's prior contents:

==Crime== East Garfield Park has long-standing issues with violent crime and property crime; in 2014, it was ranked 6th out of 77 [[Community areas in Chicago]] in violent crime and 10th among Chicago community areas in property crimes.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} The neighborhood experienced precipitous population decline from its peak of 70,091 at the 1950 census, down over 70% to a low of 19,992 in 2020. The many vacant lots and derelict buildings left behind have exacerbated the crime issues.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

If you feel this section should not have been deleted, please feel free to discuss it here and please tag me. Thanks. IntegrityPen (talk) 18:30, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]