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17 reviews for Logan Square
Logan Square is a great place to live. Safe, affordable, and full of character.
Pros:
-We have the beautiful boulevards, where you can have a cook out, play with your dog, or just sit back under a tree and strum your guitar.
-The Logan Square Farmer's Market is lovely.
-The historic architecture.
-So many great, affordable restaurants!
-Easy access to mass transportation, many cyclists and bike lanes.
-It's safe. You can walk home from the L at 3 AM and not get hassled.
-The best part is the people who live here and love it here. My lovely neighbors make Logan Square the diverse, friendly place that it is.
Cons:
-People who don't live here have often heard that Logan Square is a "bad" neighborhood. So untrue!
-People who live in the neighborhood and think that the epitome of culture is Lincoln Park...move if that's the kind of place you want to live. Quit complaining and enjoy what makes Logan Square unique!
Logan Square rocks :)
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We've lived here for just over a year now and inked another lease or 2 years. It's relatively quiet, inexpensive and the boulevard is beautiful. On the other hand, there is less of a density of restaurants and shops than we would like. After living in Wrigleyville, I'll take fewer bars and restaurants over the constant piss and vomit on the sidewalks.
Pros:
-Great parking
-The farmer's market in the summer is rad
-Close to 90/94
-Cheap
-Very diverse
-Neighbors seem to know each other a lot more
-My spanish is improving
Cons:
-Can get a bit sketchy towards the border of Humboldt Park
-Trash on the (main) streets
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Logan Square is a GREAT value for renters.
If you chose wisely, you can surround yourself with great people, great food, lots of space, and a quick ride on the blue line. Yes it is sketchy in some parts still ....choose wisely, that's all and enjoy yourself.
Here's a tip if you think there's too much trash....ready........
Try spending 5 minutes each week cleaning up your part, even if you didnt drop the bags or bottles there.
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I dont know about you but i like living in an area of town that isnt just filled with "white folks". I am a single asian girl and I've lived here now for 3 years and I think it's the perfect slice of Chicago. I feel like theres relators or something posting about neighborhoods to deter people from renting/buying in the neighborhood?? Who else could so passionately hate a neighborhood?? I mean, I dont really like Wrigleyville but i don't complain about like some folks, and I can really hate things.
The neighborhood is sorta changing, and I think landlords are seeing the change and jacking up the rent. The apartments are still way better then any apartment in wicker park. They are all way bigger for sure.
Logan Square is HUGE, and of course there are sketchy parts, but we are living in a city!! So what!! The east side had a rapist and a murder!
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There are definitely two sides to "the Square" as a recent Tribune/Red Eye article illuminated.
Newbie xenophobes hang out at the Starbucks on California and the new Burlington without much more movement in the neighborhood.
That's just a crying shame as Logan Square has so much more to offer than that! Greasy spoon Johnny's Grill coexists next to Lula Cafe. Fleur and Wolfbait and B-Boys keep the hip factor real with locally owned businesses. Feel like going out on a budget? See a movie at the $3 Logan Theatre. Eat at some of the many sabroso Mexican restaurants on Milwaukee Ave., then head to Whirl-A-Way on Fullerton for a nightcap.
Need to go to Wicker Park or Bucktown and don't want to drink and drive? Blue Line it, baby! You can throw a frisbee on the greenspace around the Boulevard or head to Humboldt Park on a bike. Palmer Square Park is walkable. The seasonal Farmer's market is a gem in the summer. Logan Square has it all within reach.
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Best neighborhood in CHICAGO! Why you may ask?
1. I live here
2. The fabulous Boulevards parks outside almost every door!
3. Lots of Dogs
4. Not too congested.
Check it out!
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Great neighborhood unless you hate life and spend most of your energy projecting anger in an attempt to fill the emotional void in your soulless existance.
(the reviewer that I am referring to above deleted his rant which called Logan Square a gang laden hellhole for people who can't afford to live in Bucktown/Wicker Park)
UPDATE: The reviewer who I refer to above re-entered their logan square reivew (their name is G.V.) and wrote me a private message that borders on scary.
Here's the private message:
Don't be silly. You and I both know that people like you and the neighborhood in which you live in merely feed my insatiable desire to expose Chicago for the mindless poserdum that truly exists in this city.
And if you call my lifestyle and salary of $450,000+ a year miserable, I strongly advise you move back out to podunk Mt. Prospect with the rest of the sheltered world.
You my friend are merely exhibit A in the case of poserdum in this city.
And here is my response:
people like me? you don't know anything about me
poserdum? what am I posing as?
I know nothing about your lifestyle but I do know that money can't buy happiness. Alot of very rich people are very miserable and I've noticed that people who are happy generally don't spend time and energy finding faults in others, or the neighborhoods of others.
And why would I move to Mt. Prospect because I think you're miserable? I fail to see the logic in that statement.
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After a beer at the Two Way, my pal and I were walking home and engaging in random acts of sidewalk chalk when she turns to me and says "There's a lot of good looking people in this neighborhood."
Being well-stocked with "the kind I like" is just one of many reasons that I love Logan Square.
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What's not to love about Logan Square? It's a few blue line stops away from the hipster havens of Bucktown and Wicker Park while still maintaining a strong, cultural identity. I enjoy the cultural mix of Hispanic and Polish. Walk down Milwaukee and you'll come across Polish bakeries and restaurants. You can't go wrong with the Red Apple especially while gorging on kielbasa and kraut. Or head to a bakery on Mardi Gras to get a paczki. If you walk in the opposite direction, there's a haven of Hispanic restaurants especially El Pollo Loco, Dunlay's on the Square, Logan Theatre, and of course the square. On Fullerton, there's some nice small businesses, cafes, and bars like Hotti Biscotti. Tony's Finer Foods serves as the grocery store for those in the area. Don't forget that there's a cult (I think) that makes it home in Logan Square on the corner of Fullerton and Spaulding.
Logan Square is lined with beautiful old homes on the boulevards. Logan Square maintains its character of a community with a mix of houses and apartments on tree lined streets. While small restaurants gems like Buona Terra thrive near these streets. I used to live in Logan Square and miss it at times. Like every Chicago neighborhood, there are some spotty areas, but I loved living there and shopping at the bodega down the street and the produce market just down Kimball. While it's becoming an up and coming Chicago neighborhood, it retains that special character that makes it Logan Square.
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There are a lot of wonderful things about Logan Square as detailed in the other reviews. There is also a lot of gang activity still going on, and a lot of petty crime but, for us the good out weighs the bad. We bought here 2 years ago and have, on occasion, bemoaned the noise, the trash,etc. but, generally we really enjoy living here.
This is the best neighborhood I've ever lived in, hands down. I lived in Near South for awhile (at the UIC dorms), the Loop (Presidential Towers), Bridgeport, Noble Square and now Logan Square (I'm obviously not native to the city of Chicago). I am so much more happy about Logan Square than any of the other neighborhoods that I've lived in, and I liked the other places I lived!
Logan Square has everything from old, huge single family homes to three flats to large apartment buildings to town homes to condos! It really has everything you could ever want in terms of housing.
There's also a wide variety of people - this isn't posh Lincoln Park, Wrigleyville or Lakeview. I really like the community feel that Logan Square has - all of the residents seem invested in the health and well-being of the neighborhood and there are many residents of all colors and ethnicities involved with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association. Living here makes me feel like I'm part of a community. A lot of my friends in other neighborhoods (like the aforementioned) say that they feel like they always need to mind their own business - no one in the neighborhood really seem to want to mingle with anyone else. Or it seems as if there's a certain kind of person who can live in a certain area (i.e. the Stroller Mafia) and they don't seem to welcome outsiders into their cliques. Logan Square makes me feel like I'm still living at home in the suburbs - people smile and say hi as you pass, you know all of your neighbors (or most of them), everyone is out walking dogs, running, walking, having fun. It's really a great place to live.
The Square is also very beautiful. It has two large boulevards that run right through it (Logan Blvd. and Kedzie Blvd.) and they meet each other at Palmer Square, which is the big roundabout in the middle that marks "The Square" of Logan Square. The boulevards have a lot of beautiful green space that's perfect for walking, picnicking, etc. and the Square itself has some nice historical markers to read and greenspace and benches so you can spend some time soaking in the sights and sounds of Logan Square.
The businesses around the Square are great! There are a lot of restaurants and specialty shops. Cafe Lula is by far my favorite (see my review here: http://www.yelp.com/bi...) and I love the shops nearby. Down Milwaukee (north west of the Square) there's a few fast food restaurants (McDonalds, El Pollo Loco) and some other neighborhood shops. There's also the Logan Theater (see review here: http://www.yelp.com/bi...) which is my favorite movie theater in the city! Every movie is $3!! How can you go wrong with a ticket, popcorn and pop under $10?! There's also a Gap Outlet up Milwaukee as well as some other shops. Yes!
There's seriously so much to do. Even down California there's a Starbucks (so amazing! http://www.yelp.com/bi...), a dry cleaner, restaurants - everything within walking distance of all the residents! There's also the HUGE shopping area at Logan and Elston (Target, Strack and Van Til, etc) that can provide everything and anything you can think of! Almost everything in Logan Square is within walking distance of all the residents. Logan Square has everything you could possibly need including a real, down-to-earth community. There's great parks, businesses, houses, condos - everything.
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No joke- Logan Square has the best fireworks in the city.
I have seen the fireworks the city puts on- on the 4th of July- and those don't even compare to the fireworks you can see on the 4th of July in Logan Square. It sounds like a war-zone. granted I've never been to a war zone, I'll assume it sounds like it.
Hours and Hours of armature fireworks! its incredible!
I lived in Chicago for seven years and moved all over the city: Lincoln Park, Bucktown, Lakeview, Albany Park, and then finally Logan Square. Logan Square was by far my favorite neighborhood. The Logan Square Farmers Market, the $3 theater, Friendship Chinese, Lula Cafe, the pretty grassy medians on the boulevard, Taqueria Moran, my cool friends within walking distance, the friendly neighborhood feel, the diversity, and my $625 huge one bedroom apartment . . . I miss you, Logan Square! Don't change. Sob.
I have to agree that Logan Square is filled with gangbangers. And I am NOT an angry person with no life so don't even go there. I go to CAPS almost every month with my neighbor. Everyone there is concerned about the gang problem in Logan Square - the nuns from the churches, the mothers with kids, people who work in the neighborhood who have to deal with the gangs everywhere. I was attending a poetry reading on Fullerton last month, standing outside for a smoke, and a driveby shooting occured. It is bad.
And I have to agree that we and our neighbors all freely admit we could not afford homes in Wicker Park or Irving Park, so we bought in Logan. Every week we are sure we made a huge mistake when we walk around and see the trash everywhere, the dark windowed cars with loud music that are abundant in the hood, the lack of retail and decent restaurants, dog poop on every corner, low lifes screaming at the neighbors or their kids, horn honking, wreckless driving, people blowing off street permit parking, cars with fake temporary plates. It's like a Third World city. You forget that nice places like Lincoln Park exist anymore.
TAKE ONE WALK ACROSS THE PARK WHERE THE LOGAN COLUMN IS and you will see a microchasm of what I am talking about. In the same park that is the very symbol of Logan Square, you'll see plenty of trash everywhere, people drinking on the benches. You can watch as kids buy drugs, cars driving too fast disregarding /killing bicylists and locals throwing their McDonald's bags and beer bottles out of the car window. No one does anything about this in Logan Square! It's pretty much - see what you can get away with. It's not like the Gold Coast or Wrigleyville where blight is not tolerated. Even the boulevards are not immune, no matter how beautiful the houses are. During a recent Farmer's Market the cops didin't even bother towing a parked car that was right in the middle of the market.
It could be so nice in Logan but until the gangs and trash are stopped,and decent restaurant and retail come in, it will remain an embarrasing place to call home.
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best neighborhood ever. Spent my whole life living no more than a block from Fullerton and Kedzie. Moved to Humboldt Park to a "nice building" with cheaper rent. Such a stupid move, Cant wait till my lease is up, the higher rent in LS is soo worth it.
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I keep toying with the idea of leaving beautiful Logan Square, but I keep falling more in love with it. Cheap movies, lots of lawns, boulevard BBQs and friendly neighbors. What more could you want!?
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this neighborhood suck... don't come here- stay in wrigleyville or lincoln park
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