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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]
English: Map of Chicago community areas. Data compiled using the Chicago Community Areas List numbered 1-77 and 'Sides' descriptions. Date: 12 November 2012, 14:32:41:
The former Chicago Sun-Times Building (site of current Trump International Hotel and Tower), Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower. River North is a neighborhood known for its fine dining, galleries, nightlife, and riverwalk amenities. It is home to the world headquarters of ConAgra, Groupon, Motorola Mobility, and the regional offices of Yelp.
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Chicago is the third largest city in the United States with a population of 2,853,114 (2009). It is located in the state of Illinois , on the shores of Lake Michigan . The city is the county seat of Cook County .
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.
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...