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The number of Jews in the north suburbs increased to 40% by the early 1960s. [citation needed] In the 1960s, most of the northern suburbs were almost entirely white. One informal 1967 poll suggested that of 2,000 real estate listings, only 38 (around 2%) were open to African-Americans. [8]
The intersections of North Ave, Damen and Milwaukee in 2010 in Wicker Park Wrigley Field, from which Wrigleyville gets its name, is home to the Chicago Cubs baseball team. There are 178 official neighborhoods in Chicago. [1] Neighborhood names and identities have evolved due to real estate development and changing demographics. [2]
North Lawndale later became known as being the largest Jewish settlement in the City of Chicago, with 25% of the city's Jewish population. [3] From about 1918 to 1955, Jews, overwhelmingly of Russian and Eastern European origin, dominated the neighborhood, starting in North Lawndale and moving northward as they became more prosperous.
In the years since, Flossmoor has gained recognition from area real estate and tourist concerns as the "status" suburb of south/southwest suburban Chicago. [6] By the 1970s, Flossmoor had transitioned from a white Protestant community to the home of many Jewish Americans and Italian Americans .
The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. University of Illinois Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0252021855; Cutler, Irving. Chicago's Jewish West Side. Arcadia Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-0738560151. Cutler, Irving. Jewish Chicago: A Pictorial History. Arcadia Publishing, 2000. ISBN 978-0738501307; Meites, Hyman Louis (editor). History of the Jews of ...
When economic decline in the American South after World War I caused many Delta Blues and jazz musicians—notably Louis Armstrong—to migrate north to Chicago, the first economically secure class willing to help them was the mostly Jewish merchants of the area around Maxwell Street, who by that time were able to rent or own store buildings ...
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Englewood is a neighborhood and community area located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.It is also the 68th of the 77 community areas in the city.At its peak population in 1960, over 97,000 people lived in its approximately 3 square miles (7.8 km 2), [2] but the neighborhood's population has since dropped dramatically.