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- 1. Connections to Community Lakeview & Uptown By Mark Krzeczowski, Jen Putis, Joey Filer, Joey Aponte, and Parisa Piri
- 2. Lakeview
- 3. Demographics Population: 44,298 Median Age: 42 White Collar: 17590 people Blue Collar: 4603 people Average People per Household: 2.94 Median Income: $53,811
- 4. Brief History In 1837 Conrad Sulzer settled the area Immigration increased from Germany, Luxemburg, and Sweden While Chicago was experiencing a deadly Cholera outbreak, Lakeview had a population boom
- 5. History Cont. Lakeview was an incorporated Illinois civil township independent of neighboring Chicago It was home to Camp Fry, a training facility for troops in the Civil War It was eventually transformed into a prison camp for Confederate Soldiers
- 6. Wrigleyville Central Lakeview is known as Wrigleyville Wrigleyville got its name from being the neighborhood that surrounds Wrigley Field It features low rise brick buildings and houses and is famous for its restaurants and bars on Clark St.
- 8. Boystown Boystown occupies Lakeview East, but more specifically known as the area along N. Halsted St. It’s the nations first recognized gay village There are over 60 GLBT bars and nightclubs located in this area
- 9. Boystown Cont. They are most known for the Chicago Pride Parade, one of the largest pride parades in the nation It is usually held the last Sunday in June
- 10. Uptown
- 11. Demographics Median Income: $36,306 Population: 63, 551 White collar: 7108 people Blue Collar: 1821 people 15,330 people below poverty Over 2,000 families below poverty
- 12. History It became known as an entertainment destination because for a while all northbound trains from downtown ended in Uptown Film stars such as Charlie Chaplin made movies in Uptown Famous for music venues such as Aragon Ballroom and the Riviera Theater
- 13. History Cont. Housing boom after the World’s Columbian exposition in the 1920s Uptown played a huge role is ushering the Gilded Age Nearly 500 films were filmed there between the 1930s-1950s
- 14. History Cont. Latinos that were forced out of other neighborhoods banded together in Uptown In 1975 Latina leader Jose (Cha-Cha) Jimenez started the Young Lords and joined with whites and blacks to overthrow the “Daley Machine” They were able to get 39% of the votes
- 15. Graceland Cemetery One of Chicago’s most celebrated cemetery's Has famous people of Chicago’s past buried here It is a Victorian Era Cemetery Can be found off the Sheridan stop on the Red Line
- 22. Ann Sather’s Off the Belmont Stop on the Red Line Known for their breakfast, specifically their cinnamon rolls
- 25. Candids! (courtesy of Joey)