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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]
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 ...
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The eastern border is often the most disputed border by residents, real estate brokers, and city officials. [12] While some will claim Western Avenue is the eastern border, those in the communities east of Western Avenue such as West Town , the Near West Side , and Pilsen have more historical and cultural ties to the West Side and the central ...
Map of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Sorted alphabetically by state or district for navigability purposes. Birmingham, Alabama *; Phoenix, Arizona; Berkeley, California ...
The name "Lawndale" was supplied by Millard and Decker, a real estate firm which subdivided the area in 1870. In 1871, after the Great Chicago Fire , the McCormick Reaper Company (later International Harvester ) constructed and occupied a new large plant in the South Lawndale neighborhood, and many plant workers moved to eastern North Lawndale.
The City of Chicago's second annual “You Name a Snowplow" contest is entering Phase 2, and now you can vote for your favorite names!
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.