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I've been coming to work in Chester for the past 34 years.

@1:20 the lady said,"...we're too crowded already." Really, too crowded?

Might move here

Nicely done.the saddest loss to Chester is losing its architectural history. All the cooler looking homes and businesses are left to rot and get torn down. We also have way fewer trees than we did when I grew up in the 1970s. Our air quality is suffering because of that.

Chester is the cancer of society. The animals will NEVER change.

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Do they got a Wawa though?

❤️I’m from Chester pa and proud

Chester seem so small and streets so narrow back when i was there years ago in the 90s

Chester will always be home!!!

Nice Presentation, God bless you and the review of History of Chester PA. 🙏😔🏡

I was born in Chester county hospital in 1966 on October 8th we lived in Kennett Sq I was thinking about moving back there I want to be home

Not enough money in the world to get me to move to this sh*t hole.

William Penn projects?

Philly born and raised, but sister is also home-

thank you for this!

I wouldn't think of moving there.

Chester born and raised. No matter where I go I'll never forget where I come from💯

They should put up a video of how thriving Chester used to be and beside that show what it is like now. It's truly heartbreaking to see

I was born in Chester, and graduated the year that Chester high was burnt down. Chester was a beautiful place to grow up but it started to get worse in the late 60's

Instead of art , try math, plumbing, electrical education….. practical.

You show the factories.?If you want to see that again, go to Bejing. Talk to the politicians and elite. They really like that you are poor. They own you and your bites. Just ask Joe.

I was born in Crozer hospital in 72

To be honest here 75% of the people who commented on this video is the problem. I live in Chester and the most important thing that we need here is for people outside the community to chip in and help out. Everyone’s calling us thugs which would make the people who are not thugs want to be thugs because that’s what they are being treated like. YOU guys outside the city of Chester need to loosen up and realize not everybody here is apart of a gang or stealing things or stupid. I have plenty of friends from swarthmore and Ridley and other counties around here who are scared to step foot into chester or who are forbidden to even be in chester by their parents which is really insane to me. Y’all gotta stop codling y’all kids nd grandkids so much because of you don’t chester is never gonna change🤦🏾‍♂️ Half of the kids I talk to couldn’t walk a block in my shoes in my city and that’s Because most of them get everything handed down right to them. I’m 16 and most of my friends from outside the city are 16-18 and some of them look down on me because I walk to work or ride a bike or catch the bus and because I’m working and trying to pay bills and trying to get a car and just trying to be independent in my way. The biggest problems most of them have is that their parents won’t let them go to a party. But I’m gonna finish here and just say that you guys outside of Chester need to change the most. Now I’m not saying Chester is perfect but it’s not somewhere you should set a border up for yourself or your kids that’s just disrespectful to the city and everyone in it. I say all this with the most due respect 😤😤💯

This my home 💙💙💙💙💙

Art as a scam. We have Black art galleries in a poor af town . The the entrepreneur Elite has somehow co-opted the Overtown area into a piece of s***

Life in Chester is not living. History be damn. A city of filth crime and disfunction. G is afraid of Chester, not God but gentrification, our real salvation. Unfortunately Mayor Thad isn't complete with pilfering the little we had

How about Sun Village

Didn't expect to see my cousin in this documentary,wat up Rabbit!!!

Can anyone please give the location for this "historical arts district in Downtown"? The map doesn't seem to know it exists. Thanks.

Chester is hell now

Nothing on the 1917 race riots

I deliver mail in chester sometimes, w 2nd street up to w 6th, I gotta be honest, during the day a majority of people are extremely nice and helpful, have had some good conversations with a lot of people, but the second dusk hits the atmosphere changes and you start seeing a different kind of group out on the blocks.

This was an interesting documentary. As a Widener alumni, I am glad to see how Widener is attempting to see the "best" side of Chester. Unfortunately, the city is dead. No matter how it is presented, the city does not have the financial resources to become anything of value to anyone outside of its restricted confines - and, even then, it seems as if the majority of young residents are only interested in finding ways to make a quick dollar (mostly illegally), contend with interpersonal difficulties by using weapons, do very little to take care of their properties, and allow the general atmosphere of the city to be little more than urban blight. Why won't new business relocate into Chester? Because the city cannot support them, and customers will not go into an area that is proven to be a dangerous and dirty place. I can understand why Widener is putting a "propaganda" project onto social media - no one would want to attend a school located in a social war zone. But, you can't hide from reality, Widener. Chester has been, and continues to be, a slowly sinking ship. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a smelly pig, in the long run. Chester is, most certainly, that pig.

To hear these people downplay how bad this city is is scary! The place is a war zone!

The place is a mess now.

If you want Chester to come back to its glory days get rid of a corrupt politicians to keep bleeding it dry to higher tax hikes and power grabs lower the corporate tax rate and start to entice corporations in industry to come back and build their manufacturing and distribution hubs along the Delaware river that’s a start somewhere along the way the rest of fall in the place New jobs will be created a tax base will start to come in you can start to repair roads better teachers at the schools more social programs for people all that comes from taxes if you have no workforce you have no taxes right now Chester is in a slump there’s more welfare on Chester than there is people paying into the tax base and now they wanna sell Chester water authority because they have no more money would say they get another $40 million for Chester water authority what are going to do in a few years with her is gone and they’re back to their Same old ways

If you want someones opinion, ask me about the city of Chester, I used to live there for 50 years. I moved out and across the state to get away from that hell hole.

I was born there in 1959. My dad was born there in 1923.

Just tear it down. Everyone there is a waste of life.

We were the only mexican family in chester back in the 90s #chesterproud

I grew up in Chester from the late 1950's to the late 1990's. The city , in my opinion went to the wayside by the gangs & drug dealers. It's a dump today.

Chester PA will always be my home 1119 Norris Drive represent Bennett homes

I Love Chester and The People in this Beautiful city We Are Rising

I grew up on McIlvain Street in the 1950’s and Chester was a beautiful, vibrant city. It would be a beautiful dream if it could be built up again but it would take a miracle for that to happen. Thanks for this interesting video.

I grew up on McIlvain Street in the 1950’s and Chester was a beautiful, vibrant city. It would be a beautiful dream if it could be built up again but it would take a miracle for that to happen. Thanks for this interesting video.

Chester was a city of industry the sunoco dry dock ship building company was their scott paper which is now kimberly clark malls shopping complexes movie theatres roller rinks you want it back up and running hard mean profitable and straight kick every corrupt politician off the board and throw then in jail lower business taxes give a few tax breaks to bring some industry back and the rest will fall into play and close the casino also I like how is documentary only shows the very few good parts of Chester such as the casino soccer stadium in up in the upper parts of Chester where the courthouse and police station how about we go to 11th and Beverly or I saw a shooting not too long ago as I was delivering a pizza one night or a guy got shot and killed in front of me let's go back into the projects and look at all the crap needles that were laying on the ground gunshots shootings this is a city that in one summer alone back in 2012 27 people were killed or maybe it doesn't seem like much when you compare that amount of homicides with the amount of capita in that region that's a lot so much in fact a state of emergency was declared and a temporary curfew is instated people were only allowed to move in groups of three or less and after 6 p.m. unless you were going to work or had a really good reason you were not allowed out of your house or on the street regardless of your age gender Creed or sex

I was born in Chester Hospital 1939, as was my Mother. My family, was in the census of 1830. Yes we are a white family. My family & others were, at one time, part of the Underground railway, helping slaves make it from the Southern slave states to the north. I remember great times thru the 1950.s. Then the CHS Vocational bldg was burned down! CHS bldg burned down, 3 generation of my family went there. I lived @ 9th & Barcley, right next to Chester Hospital. Then that went down, to build a NEW CHS. This a Historic City that has been destroyd. The Population is about 85 or90% black. We helped some of your famlies get here. Please help rebuild the town, the neighborehoods & the families.

.....just as another had posted about growing up in Chester, I was born @ Sacred Heart hospital, went to Rez & St. James. A favorite place to eat was West End Boat Club to watch them build the Commodore Barry Bridge and watch the ferries cross. Played Little League at the field that was across Murphy Ford ( it was a open field then). The milk man delivered twice a week in glass bottles and it seemed we had no problem with walking anywhere in the city or Crozier Park. Damn shame that the city fell into what it had become; but I would love to see it get back on its feet. The one stat that really bothered me was the fact that there are NO food supermarkets in the city, which means you get less for your dollar buying at convenient stores.

I am Chester Made!! You make me so proud, bringing this great city back!! What Chester Makes, Makes Chester!! I am 70, born and raised in Chester!! So many wonderful memories and I carry her in my heart, wherever I go!! I have tears in my eyes watching this video!! So proud of each of those trying and working to make Chester Made!!