Are Rogers Park and Humboldt Park now fully gentrified? (Chicago: pool, building)

[Attrill]

Originally Posted by Drover

The whole point was to mock the whole "cutsie-poo" re-branding that developers like.

I get what you're saying, but I don't think it will get a "cutsie-poo" name. They'll just call it "North Logan Square".

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Larry Siegel

There's no such area...

Yeah, no kidding.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Attrill

I get what you're saying, but I don't think it will get a "cutsie-poo" name. They'll just call it "North Logan Square".

Better than "SoNo."

[K 22]

Originally Posted by Attrill

I get what you're saying, but I don't think it will get a "cutsie-poo" name. They'll just call it "North Logan Square".

"NoLo."

[Plzeň]

Originally Posted by drover

clever or not, it's an obviously ridiculous name for anything/anywhere. But i'll still use it in this thread in quotes because a) its context/meaning is pretty well established in my own mind, and b) it's easier than typing out "the belmont/elston/california intersection."

ftfy.

[PulSamsara]

Yeah ! Gentrification ! I'll take a double scoop of that please !

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Yeah, no kidding.

If you read my whole post you'll see that I got the joke.

[emathias]

Originally Posted by RogersParkGuy

Well, Andersonville is still a ways south of RP, but I see your point. Frankly, I think the gentrification of Andersonville is a by-product of the gentrification of Uptown.

For many years, no one talked about much "Andersonville," any more than they talked about "Buena Park." Both those community designations go way back, but for years, everything in that general area was referred to as "Uptown." I think Andersonville became big because a lot of gay people couldn't afford Lakeview anymore and Uptown was not yet gentrified enough to suit them. Affluent gays were really the spearhead for the gentrification of Andersonville.

Andersonville has had a spillover gay population, and a hip reputation, since at least the early 1990s. A guy I know who was a serious John Cusack in High Fidelity type of hipster, and his first condo was in Andersonville in the 1990s, then he moved to Wicker Park just as it started its upswing.

[Vlajos]

Andersonville is one of my favorite neighborhoods.

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

Follow the single women. The women (the ones who get followed) follow the artists/night life, but for the most part, only if it's perceived to be at least somewhat safe. A little dicey is OK, but only if escape routes are obvious -hence the importance of the L stops.

Here is the old rule: Follow the artists (who make a living doing art). Then follow the gays. Then follow the single women. Then follow the couples. By the time you're following the families, you've missed it.