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Article: Rogers Park rebuilding from within
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 5, 1989
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For the past few decades Rogers Park has best been known as an
ethnic melting pot.
In 1980, the lakefront city neighborhood bordering Evanston was
cited as the most ethnically diverse in the continental United
States. Stroll Rogers Park's bustling, immigrant-filled streets
today and you can hear 50 languages spoken.
During its heyday in the 1920s, Rogers Park (bounded by Howard
Street and Calvary Cemetery, Lake Michigan, and Devon and Ridge
avenues) was one of Chicago's wealthier neighborhoods.
In the 1950s and 1960s an ethnic and racial shift began; many
Rogers Park apartment buildings were allowed to deteriorate, and
older residents fled inner-city congestion for the open space of ...