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  2. Lake View, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Transit Authority also operates numerous bus routes in Lakeview, the busiest being those running along North Lake Shore Drive with express services to downtown Chicago, including the Loop, via North Michigan Avenue and its Magnificent Mile. Bus routes entering and leaving Lakeview are 8 Halsted, 9 Ashland, 22 Clark, 36 Broadway, 77 ...

  3. Halsted Street - Wikipedia

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    In Lakeview Halsted passes through Wrigleyville, as intersecting with Addison Street, it is only two blocks east of Wrigley Field home of the Chicago Cubs. Halsted is then lined with restaurants, bars and gay bars and clubs as one enters Boystown, Chicago's main gay and lesbian community, running as far as Belmont Avenue. This area also ...

  4. Legacy Walk - Wikipedia

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    The Legacy Project was conceived at the National March on Washington for GLBT Civil Rights in 1987.The advent of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, the first recognition of what would become National Coming Out Day (October 11), the first Act Up civil disobedience at the U.S. Supreme Court, and the simple experience of being at the March itself inspired the Legacy Walk's creators to ...

  5. Culture Clash in Chicago's Boystown Section - AOL

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  6. LGBTQ culture in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    With a population of around 3 million, Chicago is the third biggest city in the US, and around 150,000 of those people identify as lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, questioning, or other. [1] Gay neighborhoods in Chicago have existed since the 1920s, when there was homosexual nightlife in Towertown, adjacent to the Water Tower.

  7. Boys Town - Wikipedia

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    Boystown, Chicago, a gay village in Chicago, USA; Boys Town, Nebraska, a suburb of Omaha, USA; Boy's Town (prostitution), Mexican US-border district with legal prostitution; Boyztown, a gay red-light district in Pattaya, Thailand; Boy's Town, Wayanad, India

  8. Community areas in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.

  9. List of gay villages - Wikipedia

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    The Gayborhood in Philadelphia Gayvillage in Berlin The original Rainbow Crossing on Oxford Street Sydney's "gayborhood" of Darlinghurst. This is a list of gay villages, areas with generally recognized boundaries that unofficially form a social center for LGBT people. [1]