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Here are the top 10 most expensive postal codes in the Chicago area, according to data from the Zillow Home Value Index: 10) River Forest, 60305 With an average home value around $739,000, 60305 ...
West Lawn, one of Chicago's 77 official community areas, is located on the southwest side of the city.It is considered to be a "melting pot" of sorts, due to its constant change of races moving in and out of the area, as well as the diversity that exists there.
Gage Park branch of Chicago Public Library on 55th Street. ... ZIP Codes: parts of 60609, 60629, 60632 and 60636 ... Official City of Chicago Gage Park Community Map ...
The area between 59th and 60th Streets is known as the Midway Plaisance, incorporating Midway Plaisance North (south of 59th Street) and Midway Plaisance South, north of 60th Street. Now dominated by a green space of low valleys, the Plaisance is widely known as the site of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair , in which the green space was to be ...
Chicago and Wicker Park reached a nadir in the 1970s, a decade when the city overall lost 11% of its population. During the 1970s, hundreds of cases of insurance-motivated arson were reported in Wicker Park, near St. Elizabeth Hospital. Many small factories near the area (many in woodworking) also closed or moved away. The city increased ...
Riverdale is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois and is located on the city's far south side.. As originally designated by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago and officially adopted by the City of Chicago, the Riverdale community area extends from 115th Street south to the city boundary at 138th Street and from the Illinois Central ...
Uptown is one of Chicago's 77 community areas.Uptown's boundaries are Foster Avenue to the north; Lake Michigan to the east; Montrose Avenue (Ravenswood Avenue to Clark Street), and Irving Park Road (Clark Street to Lake Michigan) to the south; Ravenswood Avenue (Foster Avenue to Montrose Avenue), and Clark Street (Montrose Avenue to Irving Park Road) to the west. [2]
Some of Chicago's great old homes may be seen on Drexel Boulevard. The late 19th-century Monument Baptist Church on Oakwood Blvd. is modeled after Boston's Trinity Church. Oakwood/41st Street Beach in Burnham Park is at 4100 S. Lake Shore Drive. With an area of only 0.6 sq mi Oakland is the smallest community area by area in Chicago.