Near North
Bordered on two sides by the Chicago River and on a third by Lake Michigan, the neighborhood of Near North (sometimes referred to as River North) would see its occupants evolve in two divergent directions. With Clark Street as a dividing line, Near North developed into an pricey residential area in the east and an […]
Irving Park
The northwest side community of Irving Park is a patchwork of smaller, more readily identifiable neighborhoods like The Villa, West Walker, The Triangle, Independence Park, Addison Mall and the crowning jewel of Old Irving Park. “Old Irving,” as most call it, is a neighborhood distinguished by grand old white frame houses that look as if […]
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 […]
Gage Park
Gage Park is the 63rd of the 77 officially declared Chicago neighborhoods. The neighborhood lies to the city’s southwest side and occupies a total land area of 2.24 square miles (5.80 km2). The inspiration for the neighborhood’s name comes from the Gage family, who owned a lot of land in the region in the earlier […]
Chicago Weddings
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Hegewisch
Located in the city’s extreme south side, Hegewisch is the number 55 of the 77 community areas in Chicago. The neighborhood gets its name from Adolf Hegewisch, the former head of the United States Rolling Stock Company. He built up the town along a railway line in 1883, hoping to construct “an ideal workingman’s village” […]
Armour Square
Armour Square is a well-known neighborhood that is popular for being the home to Chinatown. Armour Square is a Chicago neighborhood on the city’s South Side. This formally defined community area is formed from the ruins of nearby communities. Therefore, Armour Square is only 4 or 5 blocks broad despite being 21 blocks long. Bridgeport […]
Roseland
Roseland, for a long time one of Chicago’s depressed South Side neighborhoods, is finally beginning to right itself after a fifty-year economic slide. In the last few decades, many of Roseland’s white residents moved out, taking their businesses with them. Since the 1980s, the area’s population has decreased by 12,000 people. But there is some […]
West Ridge
West Ridge, sometimes called West Rogers Park, is commercially intertwined with the adjacent neighborhood of Rogers Park. The area has no industrial plants or factories and relies primarily on commercial ventures for its economic foundation. Brick bungalows and two-flats were the predominate architectural style of the 1920s as West Ridge experienced its real estate boom, […]
Calumet Heights
From a swampy, largely unoccupied land in the 19th century, Calumet Heights has evolved to become a community noted for its liberalism and support of African-American rights in American history. During the Chicago Freedom Movement, Calumet Heights was one of the few communities which positively received Martin Luther King, Jr. In the 2012 Presidential Elections, […]