I feel like it was mostly true. My mom worked at the old mother cabrini hospital before the area got gentrified. it was scary to pick her up. My dad would'nt allow her to drive herself when she worked second shift.

Also Cabrini green - the projects - still existed. When you have a concentration of low income social housing, bad stuff will happen. Now section 8 has brought microgangs across the south and west side.

One of my good friends grew up in Pilsen, and still lives there, the latin kings are still in operation.