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People and art at the Old Town Art Fair in the 1960s Anti-Vietnam War protesters in Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention; the band MC5 can be seen playing Hippies in Old Town in 1968 Vendors and pedestrians at the Old Town Art Fair on Wells Street in 1968. Old Town has one Brown-Purple Line 'El' station, at 1536–40 ...
The Krause Music Store in Lincoln Square 26th Street in Little Village A woodblock print (1925) of Maxwell Street by Todros Geller A Portage Park two-flat, or Polish flat, in Chicago's Bungalow Belt Wacławowo is derived from the Polish name for the church of St. Wenceslaus. Photographer Richard Nickel was married here in 1950.
It crosses portions of the community areas of southern Lincoln Park, as well as the northern Near North Side, and is part of Chicago's 43rd ward. Old Town includes the Old Town Triangle Historic District which is bounded on its northwest side by the former Ogden Avenue right-of-way, its northeast side by Lincoln Avenue and Wells Street, and on ...
Rush Street is a one-way street in the Near North Side community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.The street, which starts at the Chicago River between Wabash and North Michigan Avenues, runs directly north until it slants on a diagonal as it crosses Chicago Avenue then it continues to Cedar and State Streets, making it slightly less than a mile long. [1]
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.
Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names. Loyola University Press. ISBN 0-8294-0596-8. OCLC 18070957. Quaife, Milo Milton (1923). Chicago's Highways, Old and New: From Indian Trail to Motor Road. D.F. Keller & Company. OCLC 1686569
In the 1920s and 1930s, the great majority of African Americans moving to Chicago settled in a so‑called "Black Belt" on the city's South Side. [164] A large number of blacks also settled on the West Side. By 1930, two-thirds of Chicago's black population lived in sections of the city which were 90% black in racial composition. [164]
The mayor's office map extends the Gold Coast south to the area of Northwestern University's Chicago campus. As of 2011, Gold Coast ranks as the seventh-richest urban neighborhood in the United States with a median household income of $153,358. [5]