Chicago Neighborhood Analysis

how it has faded tremendously from the historic sense of Chicago being a city of strong

In the mid-1920s, there was an even bigger increase in Irish immigrants to Chicago. Due to this increase in population, they moved up financially than other Europeans ethnicities. Instead of residing in lower-class areas, they began to disperse outwards. The areas where the Irish decided to move to were middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods. Not many other ethnicities lived in these areas because they were not as financially secure as the Irish had become due to all the work they had received over the years. The neighborhoods the Irish lived in now were mainly in the Near North Side. Areas like, Lincoln Park, Lake View, and Uptown Areas (Cutler, 1973, 49-54).

In the Chicago Tribune article “Segregation declines in Chicago, city still ranks high, census data show”, Lolly Bowean, the author, stated in her report that “the average white resident in the Chicago area now lives in a neighborhood that is 71.5 percent white” (Bowean)***. Racial

The traditional working class nature of Pilsen is presently endangered by the gentrification of this mainly Mexican-American locality. The Pilsen Alliance, a waged people's organization created in 1998, coupled with city geography classes at DePaul University to carry out a building list of Pilsen in order to spot and coordinate around issues connected to gentrification.

Where an individual lives can have a big impact on their lifestyle; whether it be the calming environment of the suburbs or the busy, chaotic atmosphere of a city, it can really play a part in a person’s daily life. Of all the variety of neighborhoods that can be found in Chicago; Elgin and St. Charles are of the most well-known. It was in 1834 that St. Charles officially became incorporated as a city; three years before Chicago. St. Charles was additionally well-known for including multiple underground railroad stations and a place of settlement for many immigrant families. On the other hand, Elgin was established as a city in 1835 when James T. Gifford and his brother settled on a spot where the Fox River would be bridged.

The first subject I will compare is the housing within each neighborhood. First, in the Greenbush neighborhood, the majority of people are either college students or young adults between the ages of twenty and thirty-two. It was obvious this age group lived in these homes seeing the décor on the front porches and the cars in the driveways. The average household income ranges between seventy and eighty-five thousand dollars per year (StatisticalAtlas). Just walking down the street I noticed most of the lots are designated for either college students, expensive residential homes, or parks with green spaces. The neighborhoods average price for a normal sized home would range between three hundred and three

To provide insight on just how segregated the city is, in order to even out the demographics of the city’s neighborhoods, some 72% of black or white residents would have to move to a different census tract, this according to a commonly used segregation measure called the index of dissimilarity (Luhby, 2016). Because of this, it is apparent that the lives of black and white Chicago residents could hardly be more different. In addition, these statistics are not new, in the not so distant past, the city had hushed housing and mortgage policies that kept black residents confined to Chicago’s lower class neighborhoods, for this reasons, many of Chicago’s black families rented for generations past as a result of the lapse in ownership opportunities. So, as a result it is summed up well by Chicago city planner Lauren Nolan who contests that "The scars of segregation, redlining, housing policies and discrimination are still very visible today," and perhaps are best seen on Chicago’s south side where streets still remain borders between race and income

Chicago has a history steeped in growth of infrastructure, devastating natural disasters, and everything in between. It first was settled in the late 1700’s and has been growing exponentially ever since. It’s a city of commerce and opportunity for many incoming immigrants and settlers to start a fresh life. This place became one of the most desirable cities in America to live and became the new home for many people from the south, including African Americans. Many European immigrants also tagged along with these black people coming from the southern states and made Chicago very culturally diverse over time.

To begin, the authors claim that the “the suburbs had not played a central or often even an explicit role in the historical analysis of southern politics and society since World War II”(p.692) Then, they claim that “The suburbs of the postwar South, however, were home to many of the most dynamic and cutting-edge forces anywhere in the region.”(p.693) Both authors also claim that the “insights of urban and suburban history provide a national frame work for interpreting the "long civil rights movement”(p.696), and that “The rapid growth of the suburban South has opened up many new possibilities for research” (p.701 third paragraph) Although this is not the final paragraph

The Madison Area neighborhood has achieved a full circle, from being a thriving shopping center, to a feared poverty stricken sector and back to a place where people can walk down the road without fear (Samuelson, & Schrier, 2003). If you were to take a snapshot of Madison Square in 1915 you would have seen an overload of cars, shops and foot traffic. It rivaled all of the shopping districts in Grand Rapids and was a booming epicenter of business. As time moved on an increasingly poor population settled in just north of Hall and the drug trade started to flourish. By 1967 there were riots over racial violence and the streets had become unsafe; at one point it was even referred to as the “killing corner”. Severe

While residence in Chatham is the epitome of upward autonomous economic mobility for most of the Black residents of Chicago, the effects of a stunted neighborhood transition in the late 1990s remain to limit true socio-economic freedom in Chatham. As a 21-year-old man, he has a job, but employment in his age group is only 56% (Chatham, Statistical Atlas). At 27%, the high rate of poverty makes affording home and transportation made very difficult. On that note, there is poor public transportation in Chatham, a bus runs downtown but access to the red line is on the edge of the neighborhood, as much as 15 blocks for some residents. This is likely as because of the middle-class nature

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia experienced the most gentrification between the years of 2000 to 2014. Out of 356 communities, only 15% of them experienced the effects of gentrification during that period. Many of the newly gentrified areas, for the most part, are located in Center City, or around already gentrified neighborhoods in West and South Philadelphia, or near the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. The previously gentrified neighborhoods had gentrified during the years of 1980 to 2000. To understand the effects of gentrification on housing, diversity, and economics the differences between gentrified communities like North and South Philadelphia, and non-gentrified neighborhoods like

According to Social Explorer, the city’s neighborhoods are mostly affluent, especially in the west, and in parts of Central Portland. East Portland consists of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, where, on an average,

The neighborhood that I have picked for the fieldwork project is Uptown. It is north of Chicago; 6 miles away from the Loop, according to Encyclopedia of Chicago. Based on the map, Uptown’s boundaries are Foster Avenue (north), Lake Michigan (east), Montrose and Irving Park (south), and Ravenswood and Clark (west). The cross streets for the south side of Uptown are from Ravenswood to Clark, then Clark St. to Lake Michigan; from the west side, Foster to Montrose, then Montrose to Irving Park. North of Uptown is Edgewater, to the west of it is Lincoln Square, then to the south is Lake View (City of Chicago). As of 2010, Uptown’s total population is 56,362 (2010 United States Census).

Public transportation system in a metropolitan region is an example of the involvement of many jurisdictions in managing transportation sector. Transportation systems are dynamic and inter-jurisdictional, which means bus, road, and rail systems link neighborhoods, cities, regions, and nations (Taylor and Schweitzer, 2005). According to Merk (2014), fragmentation in a metropolitan region is a barrier to the actualization of urban agglomeration effects and could hinder the movement of people and goods, thus it hinders growth. For instance, institutional fragmentation in the Chicago metropolitan region reflects the fragmentation and multiplicity of government actors in the state of Illinois, in which the Chicago metropolitan region is located