North Park
Located in the far northwest of Chicago, adjoining to Jefferson Park and North Park, the neighborhood of North Park, begins to confuse city and suburban living. The Cook County Forest Preserve is close at hand, and near that is the expansive Edgebrook Golf Course. There are so many green and open areas in North Park […]
Oakland
The district of Oakland on Chicago’s South Side was once home to the Savoy and Walrick Ballrooms, the Palm Tavern, and the Regal Theatre. After forty years of deterioration, Oakland is attempting to reclaim the pride and unity of its citizens as well as its position of prominence. Mayor Richard M. Daley declared Oakland a […]
New City
New City is the official name of a community of nearly 52,000 people roughly edged by Pershing Road, Western Avenue, 55th Street and the railroad tracks east of Halsted Street. New City is composed of two neighborhoods, Back of the Yards and Canaryville, whose histories are linked to the stockyards that put Chicago on the […]
Chicago Festivals
Chicago Outdoor Film Festival Announces Movies July 18-Aug 29, 2006 (Tuesday Nights) Butler Field in Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Free Bally Total Fitness Race to Taste 5k Run & 2-mile walk Sunday July 2, 2006 Location: Columbus & Balbo Start Time: 8:30 am Bike Chicago 2006 […]
Chicago Hotels
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Washington Heights
The neighborhood is a little older and incorporates a number of developments that are characteristic of south side engineering like Longwood Manor. The region is edged by Ashland, 89th Street, 107th Street, and a segment of the Conrail train tracks. For people shopping for affordable homes in the south of Chicago, Washington Heights potty be […]
Beverly
Beverly, or Beverly Hills, is the 72nd of Chicago’s 77 neighborhood districts. Situated on the far south of the city, Beverly, along with the surrounding neighborhood districts of Morgan Park and Mount Greenwood, Washington Heights, and the City of Blue Island, is considered part of the Blue Island Ridge. The community is 3.19 square miles […]
Mount Greenwood
Mount Greenwood is to the west of Beverly and Morgan Park, and bordered by 99th and 103rd, 115th, Sacramento Avenue, Crawford Avenue and Saint Casimir Cemetery. In 2001, the median house price here was $135,000. Mount Greenwood got its name from the nearby Mount Greenwood cemetery. The community developed over a number of decades and […]
Logan Square
Logan Square, five miles northwest of the Loop, is at the intersection of Wrightwood Avenue, Milwaukee Avenue, Kedzie, and Logan Boulevard. The neighborhood is renowned for it’s old-world mansions, quaint, tree-lined streets and well-kept homes. It posesses a distinguishable aura of old-world wealth that melds with it’s rising identity as a modern and enlightened area. […]
Humboldt Park
Humboldt Park is the 23rd of the 77 designated Chicago community areas. The neighborhood lies on Chicago’s Northwest Side and is developed around a 207-acre park by the same name. The Humboldt Park neighborhood got its name in 1869 after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The Humboldt Park neighborhood constitutes a 3.60 square miles (9.32 […]