Neighborhoods

This area was settled in 1827 as part of the Lawndale-Crawford area and from there some farms were built in the area and eventually the …

This area was first settled in the 1840s by John M. Kinzie and William B. Ogden who both tried to set up subdivisions for settlers …

The Near West Side neighborhood is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Chicago. Settlement started where the current West Loop section is near the Chicago …

The Back of the Yards neighborhood is the third historic neighborhood of extreme Chicago poverty and extreme gang activity that dates all the way back …

In the year 1836 construction began on the Illinois & Michigan Canal that employed several Irish, German and Swedish immigrants.  Many of these workers settled …

The area was first settled in the year 1836 when Irish immigrants that came to the United States to work on the Illinois & Michigan …

The Goose Island and Cabrini areas in the southwest quadrant of the Near North Side neighborhood would become the home some of the first gang …

This page was updated 3/19/26   Horse Thief Hallow What is now Morgan Park was first settled by Pottawatomie native Americans until they ceded this …

This area was first settled in the 1840s when German and Irish immigrants settled in the area because of the Southwestern Plank Road that eased …

After Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable became the first non-Native American settler to settle what would be Chicago in the 18th century, the area was …