Official Chicago Neighborhood Thread (Lincoln, Washington: move to, residential, park)

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by 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.

Oh man, Joe Zekas has found City-Data.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Oh man, Joe Zekas has found City-Data.

You know this man?

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

You know this man?

Not personally. He's the guy who started YoChicago.com, and he is a frequent online contributor to that site. He can be interesting, though he's a bit of a bully to commenters who don't agree with him.

[surlycue]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Not personally. He's the guy who started YoChicago.com, and he is a frequent online contributor to that site. He can be interesting, though he's a bit of a bully to commenters who don't agree with him.

that doesn't sound like anyone here...

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by surlycue

that doesn't sound like anyone here...

You're saying I'm a bully?

You're going to have to fork over your milk money for that one. I'm not kidding.

Okay, I am kidding.

[thiqued]

The border between Lincoln Park and Wicker Park/Bucktown is the North Branch of the Chicago River. This is also the border between the North Side and the West Side, but Wicker Park and other areas in the West Town community area are colloquially referred to as the North Side, I guess because of all the white people that live there.

My favorite map of the Chicago Neighborhoods can be found at http://search.realtyproducer.com/cor...rhoods-map.jpg. This is pretty accurate, in my opinion. Often real estate companies will egregiously distort neighborhood boundaries on their maps to hype up property on the outskirts of hip neighborhoods.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by thiqued

The border between Lincoln Park and Wicker Park/Bucktown is the North Branch of the Chicago River...

Uhh no it is not.

Originally Posted by thiqued

My favorite map of the Chicago Neighborhoods can be found at http://search.realtyproducer.com/cor...rhoods-map.jpg. This is pretty accurate, in my opinion. Often real estate companies will egregiously DISTORT neighborhood boundaries on their maps TO HYPE property on the outskirts of hip neighborhoods.

You mean like the map you linked?

[Mister Mappy]

I was killing time at the library last week, and found the 1980 Chicago census data book. It had a neighborhood map from back then. Some neighborhoods had wildly different boundaries, and some that were on there no longer are, and some that exist now, weren't on there.

Logan Square still was as wide E/W, but only went from Armitage to Diversey N/S. There was a neighborhood near Broadway & Bryn Mawr called "Epic" which is no longer on maps. Wicker Park was called "Old Wicker Park" and stretched from Augusta to Armitage thus cutting Bucktown & Ukrainian Village in 1/2. East Village didn't exist and was just part of either Old Wicker Park or West Town. I don't think Palmer Square was on it either, and was just part of Logan Square. Very interesting.

[Avengerfire]

Speaking of that look at these maps I found...

The racial breakdown of Chicago in 1980:

http://geospatial.edublogs.org/files...mirace1980.jpg

GEOSPATIAL DATA REPORT : Finding and Using Data in GIS
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Black and Hispanic Gang map with poverty levels of Chicago communities with 20% and over poverty level in 1980:

http://www.uic.edu/orgs/kbc/maps/1980D.gif

[thiqued]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Uhh no it is not.



You mean like the map you linked?

Wrote a more substantial response to this, but it beats me where it went.

In summary: Whats your problem with that definition and where do you see egregious problems with that map? You certainly aren't being very specific. If your problem with the boundary is the thin industrial strip along the river between the Lincoln Park and the Wicker Park/Bucktown areas, then I guess you have a point, but I'm ignoring that since its not a residential area. If you start in Lincoln Park and walk west across the river, the next residential area you meet is indeed Wicker Park/Bucktown. Here, I'm defining Lincoln Park inclusively, without considering things like the De Paul campus to be distinct neighborhoods, but rather divisions of Lincoln Park.