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Old Town is a neighborhood and historic district in Near North Side and Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, [2] [3] home to many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, including St. Michael's Church, one of seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.
There are 178 official neighborhoods in Chicago. [1] Neighborhood names and identities have evolved due to real estate development and changing demographics. [2] Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3]
Artist Colony Forms One Big Happy Family, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 15, 1942, p. N1; Instant Attraction – The Quirky Charms of a 1930s Apartment in Old Town Mesmerized the Buyers, But Soon Those Edgar Miller Oddities Had to be Turned into Something Livable, Chicago Tribune Magazine, April 2, 2006, p. 26.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) operates public schools serving the community. [7] Ogden International School of Chicago has its East Campus, which houses elementary school, [8] in the Gold Coast. [9] Residents of the Gold Coast are zoned to Ogden School for grades K-8, [10] while for high school they are zoned to Lincoln Park High School. [11]
There are 105 sites on the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago — of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois. The South Side district is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan , and south of 26th Street and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal , to the ...
Soo campaigned to get the Chicago Transit Authority to give the Argyle 'L' station a $250,000 face-lift, then in 1981 he started the "Taste of Argyle," an annual food festival. He also secured funds from Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne to fix the sidewalks, and later from Mayor Harold Washington to repair building facades. Because of his tireless work ...
Wendy McClure wrote in the Chicago Reader in 2017 that it is the "cilantro of nicknames": its distastefulness depends on who is using it. [8] Events and organizations often use the nickname, for example, the hockey team Chi-Town Shooters, the WCW event Chi-Town Rumble, and the New Year's Eve event Chi-Town Rising. [10]
Although he never lived in Chicago, the street was named to honor his achievements. At the time of his death in 1848 his estate was worth $20 million (equivalent to $727 million in 2024). Astor was the founder of the American Fur Company and an investor in New York City real estate. His name gave a luster to the area. [2]