Uptown is one of Chicago, Illinois' 77 community areas. Uptown's boundary is Foster Avenue to the north; Lake Michigan to the east; Montrose (Ravenswood to Clark), and Irving Park (Clark Street to Lake Michigan) to the south; Ravenswood (Foster to Montrose), and Clark (Montrose to Irving Park) in the west. To the north is Edgewater, to the west is Lincoln Square, and to the south is Lake View.
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The historical, cultural and commercial center of Uptown is Broadway, with Uptown Square at its center. In 1900, Northwestern Elevated Railroad built its terminals at Wilson and Broadway (now part of the CTA Red Line). Uptown became a summer resort town for the inhabitants of the city center, and gained its name from the Uptown Store, which is a commercial center for the community. For the time being, all the elevated trains north of downtown end up in Uptown. Uptown is known as an entertainment destination. Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and other early film stars produced the film at Essanay Studios on Argyle Street. The Ballroom of Aragon, the Riviera Theater, Uptown Theater, and the Green Mill Jazz Club are all located within half-block of Lawrence and Broadway. Uptown is also home to one of Chicago's most famous resting places, Graceland Cemetery.
Uptown neighborhood boundaries once extended further north, to Hollywood Avenue. Beginning at the turn of the 20th century, right after the Colonial World Exposition, the whole area underwent a housing boom. In the mid-1920s, the construction of a large and luxurious entertainment venue produced many of today's historic and ornate Uptown Square buildings. The expertise and artistry of these buildings at Uptown Square reflects the decorated exposition pavilions.
For more than a century, Uptown has become a popular Chicago entertainment district, which plays an important role in delivering Gilded Age, Lyceum Movement, jazz era, silent film era, swing era, massive band era, rock and roll era, has been the filming location for more than 480 films, has significant connections with athletes and sports audiences, including the Chicago Blackhawks and three Olympic skaters, as well as theater, comedy clubs, nationally renowned dance performers, and even the "Folk Music School," the music school needs-based, free music school for formal classical music training.
In the 1950s, the middle class left Uptown for the farther outskirts, as commuter lines and elevated train lines were extended. Uptown cage housing is old, and old old houses are divided again. The residence hotels that housed the sailor's wives attached to the Great Lakes Navy Station during World War II now serve low-income migrants from the South and Appalachia. Uptown developed a reputation as "Hillbilly Heaven" during the 1950s and 1960s. The Council of the Southern Mountains, headquartered in Berea, Kentucky, launched the Chicago Southern Center in 1963 at Uptown, with help from Chicago W. Clement Stone philanthropist. Chicago's anti-poverty program opens the Montrose Urban Progress Center. Students for the Democratic Society started a community organizing project, JOIN (Occupation or Current Income) in 1963. Large-scale urban renewal projects such as Harry S. Truman College wiped out many low-cost homes, and low-income southern white populations were scattered. The new wave of Asian, Hispanic, and African-American migrants moved into the remaining environments.
Latinos were forced out of the area near downtown and other lakes by a settled urban renewal near the border with Lakeview in Sheridan, near Irving Park. In 1975, the founder of Young Lords Jose (Cha-Cha) Jimenez joined a broad coalition of white, black and Latin, and failed against Daley sponsored by Christopher Cohen. They can still collect 39% of the vote. The main campaign issue is housing corruption, which then displaces Latinos and poor people from Chicago's main real estate area.
More recently, since 2000, gentrification has spread north from the nearby Lake and south of Edgewater. The median condominium price jumped 69.1% from 2000-2005.
Uptown historical drawings can be found at Explore Chicago Collections, a digital repository provided by the archives of the Chicago Collection, libraries and other cultural institutions in the city.
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Nearby Areas
Buena Park
Buena Park is an environment bordered by Montrose Avenue, Irving Park Road, Graceland Cemetery, and Lake Shore Drive. The core of this neighborhood is the Hutchinson Street Historic District, a stretch of trees with several long blocks featuring luxury homes that make up "one of the best collections of Prairie-style architecture in town." This is in stark contrast to the skyscrapers that fill the area around it. This neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Accessible from Sheridan stops at the CTA Red Line.
Robert A. Waller developed Buena Park starting in 1887 by dividing his wealth. The original Waller house site now holds St. Mary of the Lake (built in 1917). Buena Park pre-dates the rest of Uptown by a few years. Buena Park is also home to one of Chicago's most active environmental organizations: Buena Park Neighbors.
"The Delicious Ballad of Waller Lot" by the Chicago poet Eugene Field:
Get there at Buena Park
There's a famous place,
In legend and in history
(Known as) Waller lot.
Sheridan Park
Sheridan Park is a neighborhood bordered by Lawrence Avenue to the north, Clark to the west, Montrose to the south and Broadway to the east. Most of the housing, contains six-flat, single-family homes, and courtyard apartment buildings. There is a thriving business district along Wilson Avenue, which divides Sheridan Park from Broadway to Clark. Truman College, one of City Colleges of Chicago, is also located in Sheridan Park. The environment is accessible either from Wilson or Lawrence stopping at CTA's Red Line.
In 1985, Sheridan District Historical District (National Landmark District) was established to protect a unique single family and smaller multi-family architecture in the area. Some Uptown Square structures are also added as contributing structures. In 2007, the Sheridan Park area along Dover Street was also listed as a historic district. Many homes along Dover are large family homes from the early 1900s.
Little Vietnamese
Recently known as "Asia on Argyle," the neighborhood is largely populated by citizens who have Vietnamese and Cambodian citizenship. However, many, if not most, belong to ethnic Chinese minorities and, for that reason, became refugees during the Vietnam-Vietnam War of the late 1970s. In the span of several city blocks, Little Vietnam offers half a dozen Asian grocery stores as well as over a dozen Vietnamese, Thai, Laotian and Chinese restaurants. The neighborhood should not be confused with Chinatown, which is in the Armor Square community area on the South Side of the city.
Noteworthy minorities in the Argyle minority are Bui Doi, people of mixed Vietnamese and American descent. Children of mixed unions often experience discrimination in Vietnam, partly because of hostility to the US armed forces and partly because women (unions are almost always Vietnamese and American men) are seen as prostitutes. The most discriminated are African Americans-Vietnamese Americans. Uptown is a relief for those who are struggling with this oppression.
The neighborhood is served by Argyle stops at CTA's Red Line.
Margate Park
Margate Park is located in the extreme northeastern corner of the Uptown community, nestled between the recently rejuvenated new construction on Sheridan Road and the pleasantries in northern Lincoln Park. It's tied up by Lincoln Park and Sheridan Road to the east and west, and Foster Avenue and Lawrences Avenue to the north and south, respectively.
Its tree-lined streets, historic mansions and gold-floored buildings reflect the region's development in the upheaval of the entertainment industry in Uptown since the early 1900s, now undergoing a thriving revitalization. Diverse housing also includes ornaments, imposing dressed terra-cotta buildings, immortalized in Chicago's early-twentieth century movie as an apartment hotel and boardinghouse. Some of the 1920s, Jazz-Age hotels have been converted into condominiums and high-end cooperatives, adding to the very diverse population of the area. The Margate Park community, as well as most of the Uptown neighborhoods that are part of it, is a popular and growing home for many LGBT townspeople. On the western edge of Margate Park is also one of the city's longest gay bars, Big Chicks, owned and operated for the past 30 years. Designed in 1937 by architect Charles Christian, his asymmetrical facade, clearly influenced by the 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, features dazzling décor, with a yellow vertical dock with a cobalt blue background, and aqua splash. The building itself is architecturally significant for its decade facade.
This lakeside environment is home to Margate Park Fieldhouse, a fitness center and fitness facilities. The area around the field house is an official area outside the city for dogs. Annual city permits are required for dogs that use the area.
The field house is also host to the Margate Playground, with a 1,400 square foot (130 m) playroom for children. Artists Jim Brenner, Corinne D. Peterson, Ginny Sykes, and Roman Villareal create a unique space that reflects local urban catering for the benefit of local children and fauna. Margate Park contains the underground Lake Shore Drive near Argyle Avenue adjacent to the Margate Playground, to the east of Marine Drive, allowing pedestrians and motorcyclists easy access to Lake and Foster lanes and Lawrence Avenue beaches.
Many of the houses here are built from the 1890s through the 1920s. Although much of its territory remains white and rich in the 20th century, it is a fairly integrated community. In 1940 some blacks living as domestic workers lived in a block of houses near their employers. The houses are described by Jacalyn D. Harden, author of Double Cross: The Japanese Americans in Chicago Black and White , as "simple".
At 5000 North Marine Drive is The Aquitania, a co-op building built in 1923 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2002. Aquitania was built by Ralph C. Harris and Byron H. Jillson in the Classical Awakening style. It was developed by George K. Spoor, founder of Essanay Studios, a silent film producer in the first decade of the twentieth century. At the moment, Chicago rivals New York City and Hollywood in film production, and Spoor can use his considerable fortune to build an apartment he feels is appropriate for movie stars connected to the thriving entertainment industry in Chicago.
Uptown Entertainment District
Historically a very popular tourist destination, Uptown Entertainment District is home to a variety of music venues, nightclubs, restaurants and shops. The Uptown Entertainment District is now experiencing a revival, with new restaurants and shops opened every year. Uptown Square, at the center of the Uptown Entertainment District, was designated a National Historic District at the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Uptown is also a stopping point for the Chicago Gangster tour, with many locations linked to famous gangsters such as John Dillinger, Al Capone, Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Roger Touhy ("Touhy Terrible") and others.
Aragon Ballroom
The Aragon Ballroom is still a very popular music venue. During the 1920s and 1930s, most of the country's famous jazz groups played Aragon. Direct radio broadcasts from Aragon helped promote the entertainers of Aragon throughout the Midwest and beyond. The hotel quickly sprung up in the Uptown area, and it became a mecca for young adults who visited Chicago to dance to the Big Bands in the 1940s and 1950s. Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Lawrence Welk, Guy Lombardo, Wayne King, and other famous bands often play there. In the next few decades, a very diverse selection of "big name" groups has been done, including The Rolling Stones, U2, The Smiths, The Doors, Snoop Dogg, Green Day, The Kinks, The Smashing Pumpkins, Dr. John, BB King, Uriah Heep, Metallica, Tommy Bolin, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age, The Clash, Tangerine Dream, Slayer, MotÃÆ'¶rhead, Nirvana, The Ramones and many others.
The Aragon Ballroom is located at the intersection of Lawrence and Winthrop Avenues, near the Lawrence Red Line 'L' line.
Riviera Theater
The Riviera Theater, also a popular music venue, has once been a Jazz Age movie palace featuring live jazz shows with films. In the 1980s, chairs were moved on the main floor and converted into concert venues.
Uptown Theater
The Uptown Theater is a large and ornate film palace with nearly 4,500 seats. The largest in Chicago, this architectural gem is in several Landmark Registers. Uptown Theater is designed by the famous movie palace architect, Rapp and Rapp, who also designed the Chicago Theater in Chicago Loop. It's managed by Balaban and Katz Companies.
The Uptown Theater is currently closed and in decay, but efforts have been made by Friends of the Uptown and other local groups to stop the damage, restore and reopen the theater. Progress has been halted for years by various legal issues, including disputes by several mortgage holders and municipal liens. However, on August 18, 2008, Uptown Theater was sold to Jam Productions Ltd, a music promoter based in Chicago. Jam Productions plans to restore the building and will seek development funding from the City of Chicago to help with this effort.
The 2006 documentary, Uptown: Portrait of a Palace, shows the inside of the theater. It is also featured on the cover of The Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz by David Balaban.
Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge is located at 4802 N. Broadway in Chicago, on the site of the much larger Green Mill Gardens complex, which is an outdoor music park created after The Moulin Rouge Gardens in Paris. It is a sunken garden area, surrounded by walls and featuring nightly entertainment during the summer months. It also features a dining room which is then converted into the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge during the construction of Uptown Theater in the former outdoor music garden site. The club was once owned by "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, a right-hand man of Al Capone, who is a regular patron of The Green Mill. The 1957 film The Joker Is Wild is based on the life of a regular player in Green Mill, Joe E. Lewis. Starring Frank Sinatra, this movie is the story of how Lewis tried to leave his appearance at Green Mill and was attacked and left to die in his apartment. Lewis survived and continued his successful career in California. Green Mill is still the host for top jazz players. Patricia Barber, an internationally acclaimed jazz player, plays there almost every Monday night, as he has done for the past 15 years. In 2008, Kurt Elling was a regular performer with his current band. Green Mill also hosts the weekly Slam Poetry. Poet Marc Smith is credited for developing Poetry Slam, and still hosts the weekly show at Green Mill.
Asian restaurant and shop Argyle Street
Argyle Street, from Sheridan to Broadway and spilling over Broadway, features ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants and bakeries, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, French Vietnam and Cambodia. There are also many Asian groceries, shops and trading companies that sell Asian specialties. This area is locally referred to by many different names, including New Chinatown, North Chinatown, Little Chinatown, Little Saigon, New Saigon, Little Cambodia, Vietnam Town, Little Vietnam, or by many in the Asian community only as "Argyle". The surrounding neighborhood, which has attracted Asian immigrants and refugees for the last few decades, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Historic District of West Argyle Street. Easy to reach by Argyle stops on the Red Line 'L.'
A block east of Argyle 'L' stops, on the corner of Argyle and Winthrop is The Roots of Argyle mural, a masterpiece produced by a society depicting 100 years of immigration and everyday life on Argyle Street. More than 100Ã, ft (30 m). paintings designed by members of the public and painted by famous muralists Br. Mark Elder and his murals students from DePaul University.
The Rainbo
The Rainbo, at 4812 N. Clark, was bought in 2002 and torn down to build new condominiums and townhouses. At one point, however, it was a very popular outdoor music park, formed after the Moulin Rouge Gardens in Paris, which was the original name for what came to be called "Garden Moulin Rouge."
Investors bought the Moulin Rouge Gardens property and spent a million dollars to expand the facility. Opened in 1921, the Rainboen Million Dollar Mann Room, named after the war service of Fred Mann in the US Army 42 Army or Division "Pelangi", is said to be the biggest nightclub in America, featuring some of the biggest names in Vaudeville and musical entertainment. Larry Fine appeared there the night he was asked to join The Three Stooges. The Rainbo Room has a rolling stage to allow sustainable entertainment. There is a seating table for 2,000 visitors and a room on the dance floor for an additional 1,500. Until 1927, WMAQ radio shared a frequency of 670 kilohertz with the WQJ station, owned by Rainbo and Calumet Baking Powder Company; it broadcasts music from the Rainbo players as a form of promotion.
In 1927, during the ban, it was converted into a large casino and sports venue, called Rainbo Fronton.
In 1934, during the Chicago World Expo (Century of Progress), he became a French Casino. The French casino is where John Dillinger spent his birthday, June 22, 1934, a month before he was shot.
In 1939, he became Mike Todd's Theater Cafe, which is a popular dinner theater. Tommy Sutton, choreographer of Cafe Theater, went on to work with Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole, among others. It was also the place for the Wrestling Championships where, in 1955, the first women's tag-wrestling match was held.
In 1957, The Theater Cafe was transformed into an ice skating rink, called Rainbo Arena, which is a training ground for the Chicago Blackhawks including their year winning the 1961 Stanley Cup. The Rainbo Arena is also a training arena for several Olympic skateboarders, and during the 1960s -an is the only indoor hockey arena in the Chicago area that is open to the public. Some hockey leagues are based in Rainbo, and especially on weekends, hockey groups will rent ice at all hours of the day and night.
The southern tip of the building became a pro bowling alley in the 1960s which was transformed in 1968 into the original Theater Music/Kinetic Playground.
In the 1970s and beyond, Rainbo was a popular night roller rink until it was demolished for a new housing development called Rainbo Village. When the building was destroyed in 2003, various bones and human tennis shoes were found in the basement of the building. How bones and shoes end there still unsolved.
Arcadia Ballroom
The Arcadia Ballroom, at 4444 N. Broadway was one of the first Dance Hall in Chicago. Promoter Paddy Harmon, who later developed the Dreamland Ballroom and Chicago Stadium, found that black jazz bands are very popular with the Arcadia Ballroom night crowd. It was one of the few places on the north side of Chicago that would order black jazz bands in the 1920s and 1930s, the other being the Green Mill Jazz Club. The building was destroyed in a fire in the 1950s.
5100 Club
The 5100 Club, at 5100 N. Broadway, is a nightclub that hosts comedy shows before the advent of television. One of the usual headliners was Danny Thomas, who was found there by the head of the William Morris Agency. Danny then went on to star in the movie and in "Make Room For Daddy", one of the longest sitcoms in the history of American Television.
Facilities
Parks, beaches and boating
Lincoln Park Chicago straddles Uptown - providing football and athletics fields, bike lane/run segments of Chicago Lake, The Montrose Point ("The Magic Hedge") Sanctuary, Sled hill, Puptown Dog Park, Wilson Skatepark and Waveland (Marovitz) Field Golf in the south. Also on the edge of Lincoln Park is Montrose Beach, which includes a dog beach on the north bank, and Montrose Harbor, a marina for local and temporary sailors and a home for the Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club.
One of the parks, which is an inland part of Lake Lincoln Park, is located west of Lake Shore Drive, called Clarendon Park, and Margate Field House in North Lincoln Park both have athletic fields, children's playgrounds and indoor sports facilities. Chase Park, located on the west side of Clark Street on Leland Avenue, features indoor and outdoor athletic facilities, as well as an outdoor pool and a tennis court.
Hospital
- Chicago Lakeshore Hospital
- Methodist Hospital in Chicago
- Thorek Memorial Hospital
- Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
School
Chicago Public Schools operate the district public schools:
The K-8 School serving part of Uptown:
- Brennemann Elementary School
- Goudy Elementary School
- McCutcheon Primary School
- McPherson Elementary School
- Ravenswood Primary School
- Stockton Elementary School
- Courtenay Language Arts Center
Most residents are categorized into Senn Secondary Schools while they are in western Ashland categorized into the Amundsen High School.
CPS magnet school:
- Walt Disney Magnets School
High school:
- Uplift Community High School
Sekolah swasta:
- Sekolah Dasar Our Lady of Lourdes (tutup 2004)
- St. Mary of the Lake Elementary School
- St. Thomas of Canterbury Elementary School
Campus LycÃÆ' Â © e FranÃÆ'§ais de Chicago was previously located in Uptown Chicago.
Colleges and universities:
- Harry S Truman College
- St. Augustine College
- American Islamic College
Culture
- The American Indian Center is located for decades in Uptown and moved to nearby Albany Park in 2017.
Transportation
Uptown is served by Argyle Station, Lawrence Station, and Wilson Station, on the Red Line of the Chicago Transit Authority, which provides a 24-hour service between Rogers Park and Roseland. Just west of the neighborhood is the Ravenswood station on Metra Union Pacific/North Line, which provides commuter train service between Kenosha station and Ogilvie Transportation Center. The Chicago Transit Authority # 92 Foster, # 81 Lawrence, # 78 Montrose, # 80 Irving Park, # 22 Clark, # 36 Broadway, and # 151 Sheridan bus line serving the neighborhood. For cyclists, the best environment is traversed by Broadway (North/South) and Lawrence Avenue (East/West), both of which have bike lanes on all or some of the roads. For motorists, Lake Shore Drive has exits at Foster Avenue, Lawrence Avenue, Wilson Avenue, Montrose Avenue and Irving Park Road
Graceland Cemetery
In the southwest Uptown is the historic Graceland Cemetery. Visitors here can find great tombs from famous Chicago dead people. Because some of Chicago's famous architects designed memorials and were buried here, the Chicago Architecture Foundation offers several walking tours to cemeteries during spring, summer and fall.
Controversy
In 2008, a group of residents sued the City of Chicago for the appointment of the Wilson Yard lot as an area of ​​Income Tax Financing ("TIF").
In December 2009, a story of the Chicago Tribune reported on the problems facing eastern Uptown where some nursing homes crowded around the mental hospital area, including criminals. Many of these residents have committed serious crimes including murder, and 11 nursing homes in the home area of ​​318 convicted convicts and 1350 mentally ill people.
Note
References
- Balaban, David (2006). The Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz . Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-3986-4.
- Gitlin, Todd; Hollander, Nanci (1970). Uptown: Poor White in Chicago . Evanston: Harper & amp; Line. OCLCÃ, 96088.
- Guy, Roger (2007). From Diversity to Unity: South Migrants and Appalachians to Chicago, 1950-1970 . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. ISBNÃ, 0-7391-1833-1. Ã,
- Stacewicz, Richard; McNeill, Robert (1995). "Uptown". Local community facts book: Chicago metropolitan area, 1990 . Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago. ISBNÃ, 0-914091-60-3.
External links
- Official Chicago City Uptown Community Map
- Lakeside Community Development Corporation
- Business Partners - The Chamber for Uptown
- Uptown Chicago Commission
- Buena Park Neighbors
- Magnolia Malden Neighbors
- Compass Rose Cultural Crossroads A collection of articles, some of which relate to Uptown history
- Uptown History Blog Blog with images from the past Uptown.
- Uptown Update News and Comments from Chicago's 46th Ward
- ViewClickFix Report non-emergency issues in the Uptown environment
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