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Old 12-10-2010, 04:23 PM
 
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Circa 1980 is when the first gay bars started showing up on Halsted.
I saw a history of "Gay Chicago" on WTTW, and they said that there have been gay bars on Halsted Street since at least the 1960s. They just didn't advertise it outwardly. It was sort of an "in the know" kind of a thing. But there were gay rights marches on North Halsted in 1970, and the press used the term "Boystown" at that time.
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Old 12-10-2010, 05:20 PM
 
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Having graduated and fitting the almost-yuppie tag during that era ... Old Town and New Town were popular, and some areas now known as Wrigleyville ( east of the park to the lake) were getting popular .. Non Profit /More Artistic types were a bit more pioneering into areas west .. a lot of friends lived near Lincoln Avenue and the 'bar corridors' .. Areas that would NOT fit would be places like North Kenwood, Bronzeville... Uk Village and Wicker Park were rough-around-the-edges starving artist neighborhoods ..if your character has friends in a punk band , place them there .. River North was still pretty grimy at that time as well .. Hyde Park was, well, Hyde Park ...
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Old 12-10-2010, 05:47 PM
 
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River North, Lincoln Park, Gold Coast, Old Town. Lake View had very little gentrification in 1980 except for parts of "Boystown."

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Old 12-10-2010, 05:54 PM
 
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The phrase yuppies didn't exist in 1980. The majority of Lincoln Park in 1980 was not gentrified, at least not to the extent it is nowadays. Let's put it this way, many modern day "yuppies" would call Lincoln Park 1980 a rough area.
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Old 12-10-2010, 06:32 PM
 
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well, if movies have taught me anything....

Gold Coast... See About Last Night... I think they are around Rush/Division
Hmmm... I always placed them somewhere in Lincoln Park. Of course, I could be wrong.

I do recall one line in the movie, where, after being asked by Elizabeth Perkins what he thinks of the decline of civilization all around them, Rob Lowe shrugs and replies, "Well, I live in a pretty good neighborhood."

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Winnetka ... See Home Alone, plenty of yuppies in their house.
Winnetka? Nah... Somehow it's been lost over the years, but as I recall it, originally "yuppie" stood for "young urban professional", which meant they bucked the trend and lived in cities, as opposed to their affluent suburban counterparts. In those days, many were "urban pioneers" who moved into decaying (yet architecturally distinctive) houses in still rough parts of town, restored and/or rehabbed the dwellings, and "gentrified" those neighborhoods.
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Old 12-10-2010, 06:37 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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The phrase yuppies didn't exist in 1980.
IIRC, the term "yuppie" came into being around 1982 or 1983, and was credited to Bob Greene in one of his columns...?
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Old 12-10-2010, 06:49 PM
 
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Just touching on the Royko column above (the picture that accompanied it was pure gold, btw), I think the north side lakefront has been pretty gentrified since day one in Chicago. It's the gentrification westward that is really more meaningful in terms of how it changed neighborhoods.

People don't remember anymore, but once upon a time there really were insane differences in culture for every 2 blocks you went west.
It's still like that in much of the Uptown area.
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Old 12-10-2010, 07:27 PM
 
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IIRC, the term "yuppie" came into being around 1982 or 1983, and was credited to Bob Greene in one of his columns...?
Don't know about Bob Greene, but the 1983 sounds about right.
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Old 12-11-2010, 01:22 PM
 
Location: Lakewood, Ohio
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Thanks everyone - it sounds like I can use Lincoln Park, because the character is rather conservative, but likes to think of herself as on the cutting edge. She is completely blind to gay culture, which in her mind is something found in San Francisco. I think she'd aspire to a condo on the lakefront someday. And although the term might not have come into use yet, she's the quintessential Midwestern yuppie.
BTW, she'll eventually end up married and in Schaumburg.
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Old 12-11-2010, 01:51 PM
 
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Thanks everyone - it sounds like I can use Lincoln Park, because the character is rather conservative, but likes to think of herself as on the cutting edge. She is completely blind to gay culture, which in her mind is something found in San Francisco. I think she'd aspire to a condo on the lakefront someday. And although the term might not have come into use yet, she's the quintessential Midwestern yuppie.
BTW, she'll eventually end up married and in Schaumburg.
Or Naperville. That seems to be the game plan for most yuppies in Chicago. Live in Wrigleyville/Lincoln Park during their 20's. Get married in their 30's, have kids and high tail it to the burbs, come to the city on weekends to watch cubs/bulls/bears/blackhawks game.
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