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Irving Park is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas, and is located on the Northwest Side.It is bounded by the Chicago River on the east, the Milwaukee Road railroad tracks on the west, Addison Street on the south and Montrose Avenue on the north, west of Pulaski Road stretching to encompass the region between Belmont Avenue on the south and, roughly, Leland Avenue on the north.
The Charles N. Loucks House is a historic house at 3926 N. Keeler Avenue in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The house was built in 1889 for Charles N. Loucks, a real estate planner who developed much of Irving Park, and his family.
The Villa District, also known as Villa Historic District, (Polish: Polskie Wille) is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is located on Chicago's Northwest Side within the community area of Irving Park.
After 1910 the poor farm was moved to Oak Forest, and two years later the state bought the mental hospital and property for one dollar. Although it was called the Chicago State Hospital, many continued to refer to the institution simply as Dunning. In 1989, during development near Irving Park Rd. and Narragansett Ave., human remains were ...
The Stephen A. Race House, Chicago, IL, circa 2007. The Race House is an Italianate style house located at 3945 North Tripp Avenue in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The house was built in 1874 by an unknown architect for Stephen A. Race. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 22, 1988. [1] [2]
Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0455-9. OCLC 17210353. Miller, Donald L. (1997). City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. Simon & Schuster. pp. 282– 284, 292. ISBN 978-0-684-83138-1
In 1868, at the age of 48, Rosell Hough returned from a career as an alderman and a businessman in Chicago, and saw that the area had become a farming center for corn and flax. He opened the Illinois Linen Company on the northwest corner off of what is now Roselle Road and Irving Park Road.
Independence Park, officially Park #83 of the Chicago Park District, is a 7.16-acre (2.90 ha) recreational area in the Irving Park neighborhood of North Side, Chicago, Illinois. [ 2 ] First opened in 1914, the park has been the traditional location of Independence Day celebrations for Irving Park residents since 1903.