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Wicker Park is a neighborhood in the West Town community area of the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, [1] west of the Kennedy Expressway, east of Humboldt Park, and south of the Bloomingdale Trail, known for its hipster culture, art community, nightlife, and food scene.
Wicker Park is a 4.03 acre public urban park in the Wicker Park neighborhood of the West Town community and West Side district, in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after Charles G. Wicker and Joel H. Wicker.
Wicker Park Lutheran Church at Hoyne Av and LeMoyne St. The Wicker Park District is a historic district in the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is the neighborhood bounded by Bell Avenue, Caton Street, Leavitt Street, Potomac Avenue and Chicago 'L' tracks. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 12, 1991. [1]
Pulaski Park is a neighborhood directly west of Goose Island and east of Wicker Park. The generally accepted boundaries of Pulaski Park are Ashland (1600 W) to the west, the Chicago River and Elston Avenue to the east, the Bloomingdale Line on the north, and Chicago (800 N) on the south (although some people extend the southern border only to Division Street).
Although the movie Wicker Park was filmed in Canada, the story is set in this area of Wicker Park, Chicago. The busy six corner intersection of Damen Avenue, North Avenue, and Milwaukee is the center of the "24 hour" Wicker Park scene with dozens of bars and restaurants, making for popular nightlife.
[1] [2] Ernest Burgess, a colleague of Park's who shared his thinking, was crucial in creating and naming the community areas. [2] Initially able to identify 400 neighborhoods of the city, he considered that number excessive and trimmed it down to 80 and thereafter 75 by grouping related neighborhoods into a single community area. [ 2 ]
Wicker Park may mean: Wicker Park, a 2004 film directed by Paul McGuigan Wicker Park, the accompanying film soundtrack; Wicker Park, Chicago, a neighborhood in the West Town community area outside of the Chicago Loop; Wicker Park (Chicago park), an urban park in the Wicker Park neighborhood outside of Chicago's West Town
The station is located at 1558 North Damen Avenue, [41] in the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods of Chicago. [38] Infrastructure and facilities