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Rogers Park is a neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois and one of the city's 77 municipally recognized community areas.Located 9 miles (14 km) north of the Loop along the shore of Lake Michigan, it features green spaces, early 20th-century architecture, live theater, bars, restaurants, and beaches.
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]
One person was killed and three people were injured during a shooting in the Rogers Park neighborhood Sunday afternoon, authorities said. A spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department said ...
The Rogers Park Manor Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the West Ridge neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 329 buildings, 247 of which are Chicago bungalows built in the 1920s. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2005. [7]
It shouldn't surprise you that their perception of Chicago is one of. ... Safe and Dangerous Places in Chicago. Louie Lazar. Updated September 22, 2016 at 2:13 PM. Areas to Avoid Chicago.
Sitting on the hallway floor outside a Cook County courtroom Thursday, Vicente Colores-Chalmers pulled up a September 2018 video of his fiance, Shane Colombo. Colombo, 25, had just walked into a ...
[1] [2] Ernest Burgess, a colleague of Park's who shared his thinking, was crucial in creating and naming the community areas. [2] Initially able to identify 400 neighborhoods of the city, he considered that number excessive and trimmed it down to 80 and thereafter 75 by grouping related neighborhoods into a single community area. [2]
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.