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  2. Community areas in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Although developed by the University of Chicago, they have been used by other universities in the Chicago area, as well as by the city and regional planners. [2] They have contributed to Chicago's reputation as the "city of neighborhoods", and are argued to break up an intimidating city into more manageable pieces. [2]

  3. Lincolnwood, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Lincolnwood (formerly Tessville) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.Per the 2020 census, the population was 13,463. [2] An inner suburb of Chicago, it shares its southern, eastern, and a small section of its western boundary with Chicago, also bordering Skokie to the north and west.

  4. List of neighborhoods in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    There are 178 official neighborhoods in Chicago. [1] Neighborhood names and identities have evolved due to real estate development and changing demographics. [2] Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3]

  5. North Shore (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of Illinois area codes - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, area code 708 was created for all of the suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan area while the city of Chicago kept the original 312. Area codes 847 (northern suburbs) and 630 (western suburbs) were created from a split of suburban area code 708 in 1996. Shortly after in 1996, area code 773 was created for the residential parts of the ...

  7. Southeast Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Southeast side of Chicago officially begins East of State Street going southwards. It extends south and east to the city limits, generally keeping between Lake Michigan and Lake Calumet . [ 1 ] Politically, the Southeast side is contiguous with the 10th Ward.

  8. Ravenswood, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Ravenswood is a neighborhood located on the North Side of the city of Chicago, Illinois.Lacking designation as one of Chicago's 77 well-defined community areas, it is mostly situated in the Lincoln Square community area, with the portion east of Ravenswood Avenue and the Chicago & Northwestern/Union Pacific North Line railroad tracks being situated in the Uptown community area.

  9. Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    The mayor's office map extends the Gold Coast south to the area of Northwestern University's Chicago campus. As of 2011, Gold Coast ranks as the seventh-richest urban neighborhood in the United States with a median household income of $153,358. [5]