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WICKER PARK

2156 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647

Neighborhood Highlights:
     Wicker Park and Bucktown are the fun, attractive areas located between Division and Fullerton avenues, from the Kennedy Expressway (90/94) to Western Avenue. The borders between Bucktown and Wicker Park are vague. Small neighborhood bars are found on every corner, and both North and Damen Avenue boast smoky late-night clubs and stylish bars, shops, and restaurants. Both Wicker Park and Bucktown contain several remarkable churches, the legacy of early Polish immigrants. Bucktown was named for the goats kept in many of the poorer residents' backyards. Since then a Latin community has all but replaced the Poles, and later artists of all media and means have flocked to the bohemian area, attracted by low rent and racial diversity.

     Today Bucktown and Wicker Park are inhabited by one of the largest populations of working artists in any major city in the country. In recent years as these neighborhoods became hip and trendy, both rent prices and loft conversions have increased accordingly. Offbeat restaurants, artsy nightclubs and bars, galleries, street musicians, and boutiques contribute to the amiability and the eclectic, to the artistic and familiar of these “cool” and surprising neighborhoods. Still, as you wander north of the area's epicenter at the intersection of Milwaukee, Damen and North avenues, you may notice a change in your surroundings, from super-hip to downright gritty. Remnants of the old neighborhood (working-class Hispanic preceded by working-class Polish) can be found on the border streets: Ashland Avenue, Western Avenue and south of Division Street.