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Article: Rogers Park is a bustling melting pot
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 18, 1991
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Fifty languages are spoken on Rogers Park's bustling,
immigrant-filled streets.
That is why Rogers Park and West Rogers Park are known as the
ethnic melting pot of the Windy City.
In 1980, Rogers Park was cited as the most ethnically diverse
neighborhood in the continental United States.
Ten miles north of the Loop on the border of Evanston, Rogers
Park is bounded by Howard, Ridge and Devon avenues and Lake Michigan.
Large courtyard buildings predominate near Sheridan Road. A
high-rise construction ban from Sheridan Road east to the lake has
sparked an apartment rehabilitation boom in Rogers Park, developers
say. Several rental buildings recently have been purchased and
renovated.
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