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The Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago defined the community areas in the 1920s based on neighborhoods or groups of related neighborhoods within the city. In this effort it was led by sociologists Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess , who believed that physical contingencies created areas that would inevitably form a ...
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]
While all north–south streets within city limits are named, rather than numbered, smaller streets in some areas are named in groups all starting with the same letter; thus, when traveling westward on a Chicago street, starting just past Pulaski Road (4000 W), one will cross a mile-long stretch of streets which have names starting with the letter K (From east to west: Keystone (North Side ...
Downtown Chicago, Illinois, has some double-decked and a few triple-decked streets immediately north and south of the Main Branch and immediately east of the South Branch of the Chicago River. The most famous and longest of these is Wacker Drive, which replaced the South Water Street Market upon its 1926 completion. [1]
Chicago's first Black community along Kinzie Street and Lake Street became adjacent to an Irish community by the river, as well as German, French, Czech, and Bohemian communities. Polish immigrants settled further north along the river in West Town to work at factories and on the railroad. View of Randolph Street after the Great Chicago Fire.
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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.
The River North neighborhood got its name from Chicago real estate developer Albert Friedman (chief executive of Friedman Properties Ltd.), who in 1974 started to buy, restore, and build commercial property in the southeast sector. [10] Much of the area was a shabby urban neighborhood.