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English: Wards map of the City of Chicago, to be used for the Chicago City Council from the 2023 aldermanic election. Shapefile from the Chicago Data Portal, simplified and modified with Mapshaper. Interactive version at Data:City of Chicago Wards (2023–).map
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 generated identities similar to neighborhoods. Unlike community areas, wards are adjusted decennially to account for population shifts. [13] Another method of neighborhood nomenclature in heavily Catholic ...
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As of February 2013, the 26th Ward of the City of Chicago (which encompasses the majority of Humboldt Park) had a population of 28.0% Puerto Ricans. [27] East of Humboldt Park, which is West Town part of the First Ward, is now 45.12% White due to the larger amount of gentrification factors on the east side of the park. [ 28 ]
By the mid-1890s, the ward's partisan lean had firmly become Democratic. [1] The last Republican to represent the ward on the Chicago City Council was Francis P. Gleason, who left office in 1897. In the 1940s, the ward was referred to as being the "wealthiest ward in the world". [2]
map of the Ward's 2015 boundaries. The 40th Ward is one of 50 wards that make up the Chicago City Council. The ward includes several diverse neighborhoods surrounding Rosehill Cemetery, including Lincoln Square, Budlong Woods, Bowmanville, West Ridge, Edgewater and West Andersonville. The area is bordered approximately by the Chicago River to ...
At its incorporation as a city in 1837, Chicago was divided into six wards. The 6th ward represented areas north of the Chicago River, and east of North Clark Street. Beginning February 16, 1847 (when the city increased its number of wards to nine), the ward represented areas west of the Chicago River and north of Randolph Street. [1]