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Rogers Park
Between the late 1830s and his death in 1856, Irishman Phillip Rogers purchased approximately 1,600 acres of government land, part of which formed the basis of Rogers...
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Edgewater
In 1885, a Philadelphia-born developer named John Lewis Cochran purchased a large tract of vacant land in the Town of Lake View and set out to build something distinct. He...
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Andersonville
Andersonville began as a small Swedish immigrant village in the mid-19th century, eventually becoming a major hub of Chicago’s Swedish population. Swedish-owned bakeries,...
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Uptown
It got there fast. In 1900, the Northwestern Elevated Railroad built its terminal at Wilson and Broadway, and Uptown took off almost immediately. The neighborhood...
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Lake View
The name itself tells the story. In 1853, a hotel called the Hotel Lake View was built on the lakefront, transforming the area into a summer resort for wealthy Chicagoans...
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Lincoln Park
The land itself has a complicated past. Before the neighborhood existed, much of it was a cemetery. The city of Chicago’s original northern boundary was North Avenue,...
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North Center
The land that became North Center was prairie and farmland through the mid-1800s, first settled by Central European farmers who worked the flat, fertile ground along the...
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Avondale
The land that became Avondale was largely undeveloped prairie in the mid-19th century. An early developer named Homer Pennock attempted to build an industrial suburb here...
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Logan Square
That is Logan Square. It is the kind of neighborhood that has been called many things over many decades, and all of them have been partially true. The land was prairie and...
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Villages
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Winnetka
The land was inhabited for thousands of years before European contact. The Potawatomi were the dominant people in the North Shore region by the late 17th century, and...
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Kenilworth
Sears arrived in what was then a tangle of oak, hickory, and butternut trees cut through by dirt roads and wagon tracks. He had grown up in Boston, made his fortune in...
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Glencoe
The land was first settled in 1835 by Anson Taylor, a young storekeeper who came north along the lake when Chicago was barely two years old. The community began to take...
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Northfield
Northfield turns 100 in October 2026. Its founding history is quieter than most North Shore communities. For hundreds of years before European settlement, the land was...
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Glenview
The land that became Glenview was prairie and forest along the North Branch of the Chicago River, first traversed by French explorers using the river systems and home to...
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Northbrook
The Potawatomi people under Chief Shabbona were the earliest recorded residents of the area before ceding their land in 1833. European settlement followed quickly. Joel...
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Highland Park
The land now called Highland Park has been inhabited for a very long time. A traveler in 1833 described eating roasted corn with a Potawatomi chief at a site likely near...
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