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A large number of those Irish-Americans who received the scrip used it to purchase canal-owned land at the northern end of the canal where it meets the south branch of the Chicago River. The original Bridgeport village, named "Hardscrabble", was centered around what is now the section of Throop Street north of 31st Street. [6]
Gentrification, the process of altering the demographic and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood usually by decreasing the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage higher-income residents, [1] has been an issue between the residents of minority neighborhoods in Chicago who believe the influx of new residents destabilizes their communities, and the ...
The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes. Census data and other statistics are tied to the areas, which serve as the basis for a variety of urban planning initiatives on both the local and regional levels. The areas' boundaries do not generally change, allowing comparisons of statistics across ...
South Side Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood is probably best known as the boyhood home of Mayor Richard M. Daily, and where his father, the late Mayor Richard J. Daily, lived all his life. That ...
The Bridgeport News is an American weekly community, non-partisan independent newspaper that serves the Chicago neighborhoods of Bridgeport, Canaryville, Armour Square, Chinatown, McKinley Park and Dearborn Park. The paper functions largely as a community news/announcements publication with numerous classified and display advertisements.
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
Long before Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed a black teenager, sparking a public outcry and now a Justice Department probe into the city’s troubled police department, he had established a track record as one of Chicago’s most complained-about cops. Since 2001, civilians have lodged 20 complaints against Van Dyke. None ...
Of the two Chicago parades, the other being in downtown, the South Side Irish Parade was the more raucous occasion. The 2009 parade was presumably the last parade. On March 25, 2009, the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee announced that they were not planning to stage a parade in its present form in March 2010. [ 2 ]