West Ridge (Chicago, Illinois)
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West Ridge is one of 77 well-defined Chicago community areas. It is a middle class neighborhood located on the far North Side of the City of Chicago. It is located in the 50th Ward. Also historically called North Town, it is bordered on the north by Howard Street, on the east by Ridge Boulevard, Western Avenue, and Ravenswood Avenue, the south by Bryn Mawr Avenue and Peterson Avenue, and on the west by Kedzie Avenue and the North Shore channel of the Chicago River. At one time joined with neighboring Rogers Park, it separated in the 1890's over a conflict concerning park districts (known as the Cabbage War.)
Today West Ridge is one of Chicago's better off communities, filled with thriving multi-ethnic culture lining Devon Avenue, historic mansions lining Ridge and Lunt Avenues, cultural institutions such as St. Scholastica Academy and one of the highest per capita incomes on the Northside of Chicago.
It is home to the Midwest's largest Hasidic community, as well as other Jewish, Irish American, German-American, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Assyrian, Russian, and Korean immigrant
Today West Ridge is one of Chicago's better off communities, filled with thriving multi-ethnic culture lining Devon Avenue, historic mansions lining Ridge and Lunt Avenues, cultural institutions such as St. Scholastica Academy and one of the highest per capita incomes on the Northside of Chicago.
It is home to the Midwest's largest Hasidic community, as well as other Jewish, Irish American, German-American, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Assyrian, Russian, and Korean immigrant
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Ridge,_Chicago
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Coordinates: 42°0'4"N 87°41'34"W
- Forest Glen 8.2 km
- Norwood Park 12 km
- Austin 13 km
- Garfield Ridge 22 km
- Roseland 30 km
- South Deering 32 km
- Robertsdale (neighborhood) 35 km
- Hegewisch 36 km
- Black Oak (neighborhood) 52 km
- University Park (neighborhood) 56 km
- Chicago's Little India 0.5 km
- Robert A. Black Golf Course 0.8 km
- Rosehill Cemetery 1.9 km
- Legion Park 2.3 km
- Lincoln Square 2.8 km
- Andersonville 2.8 km
- East Ravenswood Historic District 4.9 km
- Irving Park 5.8 km
- Niles Township 6.3 km
- North End of the CTA Red Line 7.4 km