Boycott Chicago area strip clubs!!!
smokeybear
Chicago area strip clubs are totally crummy, not fun, very boring in many cases. All but 1 of the "touching-permitted-during-lap-dances" in Chicagoland sit in horrible, crime and violence infested neighborhoods (the ghetto). Shootings, homicides, armed robberies, assaults, mob attacks, car jackings, and all.
Unfortunately, then again, Chicago proper especially has a HUGE ghetto! It covers roughly 75 percent of Chicago proper, give or take a few square miles, and even over a dozen suburbs. In fact, Chicago is so loaded with crime that the only "safe and low crime" neighborhoods of Chicago proper are; Dunning, O'Hare, Monteclare, Norwood Park, Edison Park, Jefferson park, Forest glen, North park, West ridge, Rogers park, Edgewater, Garfield ridge, and Clearing. The rest of Chicago proper, including Downtown Chicago, Grant Park, and the Museum Campus area, is all endless ghetto. To make matters worse still, within the ghetto, whatever area is not covered by street gangs (Latin Kings, Four Corner Hustlers, Mickey Cobras, etc) is covered by lethal Flash Mobs, which are in fact far more dangerous to innocent people than the Gangster Disciples! Flash Mobs shoot, beat, and then rob innocent people blind and then leave them for dead. They are even known to ruthlessly attack city buses and trains. When Flash Mobs attack, they attack in HUGE groups, and they attack like packs of hungry wolves. In addition, suburbs covered by Chicago's massive ghetto include Evergreen Park, Dolton, Cicero, Harvey, Chicago Heights, Ford Heights, Homewood, Matteson, Lynwood, Glenwood, Thornton, Hazel Crest, Flossmoor, Olympia Fields, Markham, Midlothian, South Holland, Riverdale, Blue Island, Park Forest, Sauk Village, South Chicago Heights, and Lansing. The Chicago ghetto also extends farther eastward, nonstop, uninterrupted, eastward right through Gary, Indiana, and covers the following cities/towns in Indiana; Dyer, Munster, Highland, Schererville, Hammond, St John, East Chicago, Gary, Griffith, and Merrillville. There is even a second, separate crime ridden ghetto west of Chicago that covers the following cities/towns in Illinois; Maywood, Bellwood, Melrose Park, and Stone Park. Worse still, a lot of the ghetto suburbs, including Harvey and Ford Heights, even have imprisoned/jailed mayors that did numerous illegal things such as drug dealing and possibly even theft/robbery.
The suburbs of Chicago also apparently have their share of Chicago area strip clubs, even including a couple high enders such as Club O in Harvey, and Atlantis in Ford Heights. But be warned very seriously! Both sit in total gangster's paradise type neighborhoods, where criminals will blast you to swiss cheese for your car, wallet, bicycle, even the clothes on your back. Atlantis especially loves to lure unsuspecting strip club customers with it's high glamour and erotic-looking atmosphere. But the only reason they do that is so they can continue to read reports the next morning of people getting brutally murdered and gunned down, fired on while driving down Lincoln Highway and/or Highway 394, robbed at gun point and then beaten, shot, and left for dead in the parking lot. Stay the BLAZES away from these places at ALL costs if you want to live!
While Polekatz Gentlemen's club in west suburban Bridgeview does sit in a much safer neighborhood, Polekatz has policies that are certain to send you scurrying right back out the door, never to return! As if the club's no-touching rule wasn't enough, Polekatz has a very strict "fresh drink" policy for all customers. Basically, you must have a fresh drink on your table at all times. Drinks cost $4 each, and when the drink is finished, it costs $4 for a refill, and when that is finished, another $4 for a refill, and so on. Without a fresh drink on your table, club security will tell you to leave the club. They do not care if you have been there for 5 hours; the instant you stop buying fresh drink after fresh drink, you get kicked out of the club.
So in all essence, all strip club customers and patrons, stay away from Chicago, unless you plan to go to All Star Bar and Grill in Lyons/McCook. All Chicago area strip clubs, even the high end ones, with the exception of All Star Bar and Grill, are totally NOT worth you getting gunned down, robbed, murdered, and left for dead. And neither are the ones in the safe neighborhoods, with the exception of All Star Bar and Grill, worth endless boredom and money drainage.
Unfortunately, then again, Chicago proper especially has a HUGE ghetto! It covers roughly 75 percent of Chicago proper, give or take a few square miles, and even over a dozen suburbs. In fact, Chicago is so loaded with crime that the only "safe and low crime" neighborhoods of Chicago proper are; Dunning, O'Hare, Monteclare, Norwood Park, Edison Park, Jefferson park, Forest glen, North park, West ridge, Rogers park, Edgewater, Garfield ridge, and Clearing. The rest of Chicago proper, including Downtown Chicago, Grant Park, and the Museum Campus area, is all endless ghetto. To make matters worse still, within the ghetto, whatever area is not covered by street gangs (Latin Kings, Four Corner Hustlers, Mickey Cobras, etc) is covered by lethal Flash Mobs, which are in fact far more dangerous to innocent people than the Gangster Disciples! Flash Mobs shoot, beat, and then rob innocent people blind and then leave them for dead. They are even known to ruthlessly attack city buses and trains. When Flash Mobs attack, they attack in HUGE groups, and they attack like packs of hungry wolves. In addition, suburbs covered by Chicago's massive ghetto include Evergreen Park, Dolton, Cicero, Harvey, Chicago Heights, Ford Heights, Homewood, Matteson, Lynwood, Glenwood, Thornton, Hazel Crest, Flossmoor, Olympia Fields, Markham, Midlothian, South Holland, Riverdale, Blue Island, Park Forest, Sauk Village, South Chicago Heights, and Lansing. The Chicago ghetto also extends farther eastward, nonstop, uninterrupted, eastward right through Gary, Indiana, and covers the following cities/towns in Indiana; Dyer, Munster, Highland, Schererville, Hammond, St John, East Chicago, Gary, Griffith, and Merrillville. There is even a second, separate crime ridden ghetto west of Chicago that covers the following cities/towns in Illinois; Maywood, Bellwood, Melrose Park, and Stone Park. Worse still, a lot of the ghetto suburbs, including Harvey and Ford Heights, even have imprisoned/jailed mayors that did numerous illegal things such as drug dealing and possibly even theft/robbery.
The suburbs of Chicago also apparently have their share of Chicago area strip clubs, even including a couple high enders such as Club O in Harvey, and Atlantis in Ford Heights. But be warned very seriously! Both sit in total gangster's paradise type neighborhoods, where criminals will blast you to swiss cheese for your car, wallet, bicycle, even the clothes on your back. Atlantis especially loves to lure unsuspecting strip club customers with it's high glamour and erotic-looking atmosphere. But the only reason they do that is so they can continue to read reports the next morning of people getting brutally murdered and gunned down, fired on while driving down Lincoln Highway and/or Highway 394, robbed at gun point and then beaten, shot, and left for dead in the parking lot. Stay the BLAZES away from these places at ALL costs if you want to live!
While Polekatz Gentlemen's club in west suburban Bridgeview does sit in a much safer neighborhood, Polekatz has policies that are certain to send you scurrying right back out the door, never to return! As if the club's no-touching rule wasn't enough, Polekatz has a very strict "fresh drink" policy for all customers. Basically, you must have a fresh drink on your table at all times. Drinks cost $4 each, and when the drink is finished, it costs $4 for a refill, and when that is finished, another $4 for a refill, and so on. Without a fresh drink on your table, club security will tell you to leave the club. They do not care if you have been there for 5 hours; the instant you stop buying fresh drink after fresh drink, you get kicked out of the club.
So in all essence, all strip club customers and patrons, stay away from Chicago, unless you plan to go to All Star Bar and Grill in Lyons/McCook. All Chicago area strip clubs, even the high end ones, with the exception of All Star Bar and Grill, are totally NOT worth you getting gunned down, robbed, murdered, and left for dead. And neither are the ones in the safe neighborhoods, with the exception of All Star Bar and Grill, worth endless boredom and money drainage.
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Comes of more like a sociology thesis than SC specific
Chicago clubs are pretty lame but know that going in and I just said it in around 50 words....
If you really are looking for something high end, sorry, but you are going to have to look in another metropolitan area.
Chicago is completely firearm unfriendly. Chicago has a complete gun ban and will not allow any leagal guns period in the city. A direct violation of the constitution. Chicago's gun ban allows criminals to still have guns and allows them to run right over the top of honest citizens who have been stripped of their right to defend themselves.
Banning guns may look good on paper but this is what you get in the real world if gun rights are taken away.
I have a completely different impression of Chicagoland than does smokeybear. My two excursions to Chicago were very pleasant. I like the downtown. I like the lakefront. I like Wrigley Field (but not the pissers). Cripes, I even liked visiting the refinery complexes southeast of Chicago. I stopped at a sand dunes park at the bottom of Lake Michigan in Indiana. Looking back across the lake to Chicago was an unbelievably surrealistic experience. The park was a joy of natural beauty contrasted so starkly with the views of greater Chicago across the lake.
I am an unsophisticated western Canadian hillbilly so I blithely traveled wherever I chose while I visited Chicago. Sure, some parts of Chicago are gritty; but so what? Other urban areas that I have visited elsewhere in the world are even grittier.
Even hillbillies have basic common sense. I use that common sense whenever I visit places like Chicago.
I'm a late middle-aged white guy from a small town downstate, about 3 hours south of Chicago, and visit Chicago several times a year on business and/or pleasure. Every time I go, I stay at one of the relatively cheap hotels at the Halsted St. exit off I-80/294 and patronize two or three strip clubs, usually Club O in Harvey or Club 390 in Chicago Heights but sometimes Skybox in Harvey or Jimmy's in Chicago Heights. I've also been to Polekatz in Bridgeview and Heavenly Bodies in Elk Grove Village. Perhaps I'm living in a bubble, but I *always* have a good time at Chicago strip clubs and *always* feel safe. I wouldn't walk in Harvey by myself late at night, but I have no problem with visiting Club O in the afternoon or Club 390 day or night.
As far as the extent of the "ghetto" is concerned, it is hyperbolic to claim that "75% of Chicago proper" is ghetto, given that Chicago is roughly 1/3 each white, black, and Latino. The ghetto is confined to the south side and certain close suburbs such as Harvey and Ford Heights plus Gary and environs in Indiana. It's a stretch to call a middle-class black suburb like Olympia Fields (median family income: $89K) part of the ghetto, not to mention a mostly white suburb such as Schererville (86% white) or St. John (94% white).
As a small-town redneck from eastern Illinois, I agree with farmerart. I blithely go wherever I want in Chicago and use common sense to avoid trouble. The OP needs to take a chill pill.
Maybe I wouldn't walk around some parts of Hammond at night, but I have no reason to. We're talking about strip clubs - and Industrial Strip is as safe as anywhere. One gets off of the tollway and a couple of turns and you're there.
While I disagree with you about the safety issues, you're certainly right about the lameness of Chicago clubs. I used to enjoy Scarlett's, which was downtown. That location is currently known as the Pink Monkey, and I hear it is extremely expensive for low-mileage entertainment.
While that sounds good, and might be true in specific cases, the FACTS are, and the dirty little secret in the African American community that nobody will admit, that based on FBI statistics, "the proportion of African American males ages 20-29 under criminal justice supervision was approaching one in three", and that was over a decade ago as I recall. And at the time it was increasing from 1 in 4 just a few years prior. And by "supervision" they meant either in prison, on probation, or on parole.
Now anyone can twist that however they want to fit their own personal beliefs and what makes them feel good, but when young black males are around there is a VERY good chance there is also a lot of crime.
I can find the link if anyone is interested, but if you look up Sentencing Project you should find it.
So when the cops stop and "harass" young black males, it may have some reason behind it. And when guys like me go thru a black neighborhood and the hair stands up on the back of our heads, it's not because we're racist.
White: 7%
Hispanic: 12%
Black: 30%
Not even close.
But it's all gang turf on the southside. Not where the strip clubs are.
You have forgotten about another highly terrorous criminal element that makes Chicago all the more dangerous; the Flash Mobs! Flash mobs are the ultimate urban terror in society. Unlike gang members which often concentrate their attacks on members of rival gangs, flash mobs concentrate their attacks on INNOCENT people ONLY!!! Flash mobs come in All races and colors, they attack in huge groups, even of as many as 30 to 50 people, and they attack like vicious, hungry wolves. AK-47s, TEC-9s, baseball bats, chains, and all! Flash mobs are even highly known to attack Chicago's transit system, too; buses and trains, and they are practically brave enough to be serial cop killers, too! The Flash Mobs attack in practically all areas between gang territories/gang turf areas and the entire Downtown area (including the Loop) as well. Staying in groups offers no protection from flash mobs. The main motives of the flash mobs is often robbery, followed by homicide and assault. They shoot, beat, and then rob their victims and then leave them for dead. Most common items preyed on by the mobs include wallets, purses, ID cards, keys, money, credit cards, cell phones, cameras, and even passports.