List of neighborhoods in Chicago
There are sometimes said to be more than 200 neighborhoods in Chicago,[1] though residents differ on their names and boundaries. A city ordinance prescribing and mapping 178 neighborhoods[2] is almost unknown and ignored even by municipal departments. Neighborhood names and identities have evolved due to real estate development and changing demographics.[3] The City of Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s.[4] Chicago's community areas are well-defined, generally contain multiple neighborhoods, and depending on the neighborhood, less commonly used by residents.[3][5] More historical images of Chicago neighborhoods can be found in Explore Chicago Collections, a digital repository made available by Chicago Collections archives, libraries and other cultural institutions in the city.[6]
The Town Hall in Austin
The Back of the Yards neighborhood derived from the Union Stockyards, at one time a significant employer in Chicago. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle revolves around the life of a Lithuanian immigrant working the Stockyards named Jurgis Rudkus.
The now-demolished plant of the White Eagle Brewing Company was in Bridgeport and designed by architect John S. Flizikowski.
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St. Simeon Mirotočivi, a Serbian Orthodox church located in East Side.
The literal and ideological corner of Greektown.
Fiesta Boricua on Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park.
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The Gateway Theatre's Solidarity Tower in Jefferson Park is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
"The Land of SF is The Wizard" is a nickname for the tongue-twisting proper designation of the neighborhood of Kosciuszko Park.
The Krause Music Store in Lincoln Square
26th Street in Little Village
A woodblock print (1925) of Maxwell Street by Todros Geller.
A Portage Park two-flat, or Polish flat, in Chicago's Bungalow Belt
Wacławowo is derived from the Polish name for the church of St. Wenceslaus. Photographer Richard Nickel was married here in 1950.
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.
List of neighborhoods by community area
See also
References
- "Chicago in 2011: 200 Neighborhoods, 7 days" Society of American Archivists. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- "Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council, Passage of Chicago Municipal Code 1-14-010" (PDF). City of Chicag. December 15, 1993. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
- Pacyga, Dominic (2009). Chicago: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 406. ISBN 9780226644325.
Chicago's neighborhood borders and even their names may change, but fierce local identification remains intact. In the 1950s, nobody would have said they live in Village East or River North, but now most know those newly named neighborhoods ... Who names neighborhoods? Often developers looking for a quick buck name them. ... If you try to find Wrigleyville on the official community area map of Chicago, you will be disappointed, as you will be if you search out such legendary neighborhoods as Canaryville, Back of the Yards or Hamburg on the South Side.
- "Community Areas". Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago History Museum. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- Keating, Ann Durkin (2008). Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 90. ISBN 0226428834.
Despite the uses scholars and planners have found for community areas, they do not necessarily represent how Chicagoans think about their city ... Prominent neighborhoods like PILSEN and BACK OF THE YARDS are subsumed into the less familiar LOWER WEST SIDE and NEW CITY.
- Long, Elizabeth. "A Single Portal to Chicago's History". The University of Chicago News. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neighborhoods in Chicago.
- City of Chicago Website
- Community Areas Map, January 2017
- Community Maps
- Interactive Chicago Neighborhood Map
- Neighborhoods Map at the Wayback Machine (archived June 25, 2013)
- Chicago Neighborhood Research Guide at the Newberry Library
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