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Albany Park (/ ˈ ɔː l b ə n i / ⓘ AWL-bə-nee) is one of 77 well-defined community areas of Chicago, Illinois, United States.Located on the Northwest Side of the City of Chicago with the North Branch of the Chicago River forming its east and north boundaries, it includes the ethnically diverse Albany Park neighborhood, with one of the highest percentages of foreign-born residents of any ...
Chicago is traditionally divided into the three "sides" of the North Side, West Side, and South Side by the Chicago River. These three sides are represented by the white stripes on the Flag of Chicago. [12] The city is also divided into 50 wards for the purpose of electing one alderman each to the Chicago City Council. These wards have at times ...
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.
Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0455-9. OCLC 17210353. Miller, Donald L. (1997). City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. Simon & Schuster. pp. 282– 284, 292. ISBN 978-0-684-83138-1
By the mid 1970s the Popes' main membership consisted of many Poles from the Albany Park/Lincoln Square neighborhood, and German, Irish, and Scandinavians in the Portage Park, Jefferson Park, and Mayfair neighborhoods. At their peak in the mid-1960s to early 1970s, they had 300–500 members.
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Albany Park, Chicago, a community area of Chicago This page was last edited on 17 December 2020, at 04:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Chicago Park District manages 220 facilities in 570 parks covering more than 7,600 acres (3,100 ha) of land throughout the city. [7] This extensive network of parks also includes nine lakefront harbors over 24 miles (39 km) of lakefront, rendering the Chicago Park District the nation's largest municipal harbor system, along with 31 beaches, 17 historic lagoons, 86 pools, 90 playgrounds, 90 ...