Official Chicago Neighborhood Thread (Lincoln, Augusta: real estate, 2009, realty)

[Avengerfire]

Forget the one you like. It is very inaccurate and leaves out many neighborhoods. WTF is "Polish Village?!"

The official city map is the only one people should be going off of and is the most accurate.

http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webpor...oods_11x17.pdf

[supernerdgirl]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Tell me what the intersection is that they live at and I will tell you if it is in the Lincoln Square community or neighborhood.

oh i don't know the intersection, they just said lincoln square.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by supernerdgirl

oh i don't know the intersection, they just said lincoln square.

You should tell more about this story...

[nJohn]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Forget the one you like. It is very inaccurate and leaves out many neighborhoods. WTF is "Polish Village?!"

The official city map is the only one people should be going off of and is the most accurate.

http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webpor...oods_11x17.pdf

Some neighborhoods within neighborhoods I have never heard of. For example, Marycrest and Parkview in the Ashburn neighborhood then Lathrop Homes and Ranch Triangle in the North side. I have a lot of learning and exploring to do.

[Mister Mappy]

Lathrop Homes is a CHA housing development. Ranch Triangle is the southwestern part of Lincoln Park, I believe.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by nJohn

Some neighborhoods within neighborhoods I have never heard of. For example, Marycrest and Parkview in the Ashburn neighborhood then Lathrop Homes and Ranch Triangle in the North side. I have a lot of learning and exploring to do.

I used to live in Ranch Triangle, and everyone there on our block was aware of the name. But most people also said they lived in Lincoln Park.

[Mr Downtown]

The triangle formed by
Racine
Armitage
North
Clybourn
Halsted

[nJohn]

Originally Posted by Mister Mappy

Lathrop Homes is a CHA housing development. Ranch Triangle is the southwestern part of Lincoln Park, I believe.

I knew that Lathrop Homes was CHA but I never knew it was considered a neighborhood.

[Mr Downtown]

That's the whole point. There's no arbiter of neighborhood names and boundaries. Neighborhoods expand (Bucktown), contract (Uptown), and move (Bowmanville), are invented (DePaul, Bronzeville, Little Village, Buena Park, Boys Town) or forgotten (Meekerville, Towertown). In some parts of the city, I've been led to believe that parish names were more commonly used. There's also the problem of sub-neighborhoods, such as Printers Row within the South Loop, or Pill Hill within South Shore. And people who live in Lake Meadows or Lathrop Homes think of that housing project as their neighborhood.

[YoChicago]

You'll find maps of a number of neighborhoods at NewHomeNotebook's neighborhoods page.

The ultimate list of Chicago neighborhoods has boundaries for every Chicago neighborhood - real and imageind - links to Flickr photo sets, YouTube videos, maps from a variety of sources, and much more.