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During the 19th century wards were used by the Census Bureau for data at the level below cities. [1] This was problematic as wards were political subdivisions and thus changed after each census, limiting their utility for comparisons over time. [1] Census tracts were first used in Chicago in the 1910 Census. [1]
Chiyoda (Japanese: 千代田区, Hepburn: Chiyoda-ku, IPA: ⓘ), known as Chiyoda City in English, [2] is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. Located in the heart of Tokyo's 23 special wards, Chiyoda consists of the Imperial Palace and a surrounding radius of about a kilometer (1000 yards), and is known as the political and financial center of Japan.
There are 178 official neighborhoods in Chicago. [1] Neighborhood names and identities have evolved due to real estate development and changing demographics. [2] Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3]
While the Yamanote grew west on the Musashino Plateau, in time the Shitamachi expanded east beyond the Arakawa river, and now includes the Chūō, Kōtō (Fukagawa), Sumida, and Taitō wards, plus part of Chiyoda ward. The center of Ueno in Taitō lies at the heart of the old Shitamachi and still has several museums and a concert hall. Today ...
With a deadline approaching to avoid the first Chicago ward map referendum in three decades, Latino aldermen failed this week to convince City Council colleagues to let them make changes to the ...
Redistricted from 33rd ward [1] 76th Charles E. Reading 1912 Redistricted from 33rd ward [1] 77th Hiram Vanderbilt: 1913–1917 Democratic [1] [11] 78th 79th 80th Charles V. Johnson: 1917–1919 Socialist [1] [12] 81st — 82nd Sheldon M. Govier: 1918–1933 Democratic: Continued to serve as alderman of this ward after 1923, serving until 1933 ...
The Chicago City Council adopted a new map of the city’s 50 wards Monday, forestalling a ballot referendum on competing designs by Black and Latino aldermen and their allies and ending a ...
Enough Chicago aldermen are in agreement on a new map of the city’s 50 wards that they will avoid a ballot referendum next month that would have let voters choose from between competing maps ...