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No Small Plans Reader Toolkit RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES: Featured Community Areas 1 Featured Chicago Community Areas

There are 77 community areas in Chicago. These areas are well-defined, static and recognized by the City of Chicago. Community areas are used for census data and for urban planning purposes. No Small Plans takes place in 17 community areas. Background information for each of these areas can be found in the annotated chapter guides.

CHAPTER 1 38—Grand Boulevard Reggie’s home, bombed out home, South Side elevated train 35—Douglas Chicago Defender, Victory Monument, Ida B Wells home 28—Near West Side Skid Row, Market (Elisa’s home) 25—Austin Bernard’s home 26—West Garfield Park Marbro Theatre, Madison/Pulaski commercial district 32—Loop Carson Pirie Scott, Michigan Avenue bridge, 08—Near North Side beach

CHAPTER 2 22—Logan Square Jesse’s home, basement punk show, Natalie’s home, The 606 24—West Town The 606 31—Lower West Side Cristina’s home, Fisk Generating Plant 68—Englewood David’s home, 63rd/Halsted Green Line station, Englewood Garden

CHAPTER 3 30—South Lawndale Codex’s home 44—Chatham Tsang’s home 32—Loop Octavius’ home, City Hall 03—Uptown Graceland Cemetery, Aragon Ballroom, Green Mill, Uptown Station 52—East Side nature preserve

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Central NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS Cabrini–Green, The Gold Coast, , , Old Town, River North, River West, 08 Near North Side 32 Loop Loop, Near East Side, South Loop, West Loop Gate 33 Near South Side Dearborn Park, Printer’s Row, South Loop, Historic District

North side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 05 North Center Horner Park, Roscoe Village 06 Lake View Boystown, Lake View East, Graceland West, South East Ravenswood, Wrigleyville West DePaul, Old Town Triangle, , Ranch Triangle, Sheffield Neighbors, 07 Lincoln Park Wrightwood Neighbors 21 Avondale Belmont Gardens, Chicago’s Polish Village, Kosciuszko Park 22 Logan Square Belmont Gardens, Bucktown, Kosciuszko Park, Palmer Square

Far North side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 01 Rogers Park 02 West Ridge Arcadia Terrace, Peterson Park, West Rogers Park 03 Uptown Buena Park, Little Vietnam, Margate Park, Sheridan Park 04 Lincoln Square Ravenswood, Ravenswood Gardens, Rockwell Crossing 09 Edison Park Edison Park 10 Norwood Park Big Oaks, Old Norwood Park, Oriole Park, Union Ridge 11 Jefferson Park Gladstone Park 12 Forest Glen Edgebrook, Old Edgebrook, South Edgebrook, Sauganash, Wildwood 13 North Park Brynford Park, Hollywood Park, River’s Edge, Sauganash Woods 14 Albany Park Mayfair, North Mayfair, Ravenswood Manor 76 O’Hare Schorsch Forest View 77 Edgewater Andersonville, Edgewater Glen, Edgewater Beach, Magnolia Glen, Lakewood/Balmoral

Northwest side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 15 Portage Park Belmont Central, Władysławowo, Avondale Gardens, Independence Park, Kilbourn Park, Little Cassubia, Old Irving Park, Merchant Park, 16 Irving Park West Walker, The Villa 17 Dunning Belmont Heights, Belmont Terrace, Irving Woods, Schorsch Village 18 Montclare Montclare 19 Belmont Cragin Belmont Central, Hanson Park 20 Hermosa Belmont Gardens, Kelvyn Park

West side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 23 Humboldt Park 24 West Town East Village, Noble Square, Polish Downtown, Pulaski Park, Smith Park, Ukrainian Village, Wicker Park 25 Austin Galewood, The Island 26 West Garfield Park 27 East Garfield Park Fifth City 28 New West Side Greektown, Little , Tri-Taylor 29 North Lawndale Lawndale, Homan Square, Douglas Park 30 South Lawndale Little Village 31 Lower West Side Heart of Chicago, Heart of Italy, Pilsen, East Pilsen

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South side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 34 Armour Square Chinatown, Wentworth Gardens, Bridgeport, Chicago 35 Douglas Groveland Park, Lake Meadows, the Gap, Prairie Shores, South Commons 36 Oakland 37 Fuller Park 38 Grand Boulevard Bronzeville 39 Kenwood Kenwood, South Kenwood 40 Washington Park 41 Hyde Park East Hyde Park, Hyde Park 42 Woodlawn West Woodlawn 43 South Shore Jackson Park Highlands 60 Bridgeport 69 Greater Grand Crossing Grand Crossing, Parkway Gardens, Park Manor

Southwest side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 56 Garfield Ridge LeClaire Courts, Sleepy Hollow, Vittum Park 57 Archer Heights 58 Brighton Park 59 McKinley Park 61 New City Back of the Yards, Canaryville 62 West Elsdon 63 Gage Park 64 Clearing Chrysler Village 65 West Lawn Ford City, West Lawn 66 Chicago Lawn Lithuanian Plaza, Marquette Park 67 West Englewood 68 Englewood

Far Southeast side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 44 Chatham East Chatham, West Chatham, West Chesterfield 45 Avalon Park Avalon Park, Marynook, Stony Island Park 46 South Chicago The Bush 47 Burnside 48 Calumet Heights Pill Hill 49 Roseland Fernwood, Rosemoor 50 Pullman Cottage Grove Heights, London Towne 51 South Deering Jeffrey Manor, Trumbull Park 52 East Side 53 West Pullman 54 Riverdale Altgeld Gardens, Eden Green, Golden Gate 55 Hegewisch

Far Southwest side NUMBER COMMUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 70 Ashburn Beverly View, Mary Crest, Parkview, Scottsdale, Wrightwood 71 Auburn Gresham 72 Beverly 73 Washington Heights Brainerd, Longwood Manor, Princeton Park 74 Mount Greenwood Mount Greenwood Heights, Talley’s Corner 75 Morgan Park Beverly Woods, Kennedy Park, West Morgan Park

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