Lincoln Square, Chicago Totally Explained

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Lincoln Square located on the North Side of city of Chicago, Illinois is one of 77 well-defined Chicago community areas. Greater Lincoln Square encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Ravenswood Gardens, Ravenswood Manor, Bowmanville and Budlong Woods. Although it's sometimes known by these other names the City of Chicago officially designated it as Lincoln Square in 1925. About 44,000 people live in the neighborhood along with over 1,000 small and medium sized businesses. It is accessible through the Brown Line of the 'L'. It is bounded by Peterson Avenue and Bryn Mawr Avenue on the north, Montrose Avenue on the south, Ravenswood Avenue on the east and the Chicago River on the west. It is somewhat trendy and its housing stock consists of private residences and small apartment buildings. The commercial heart of Lincoln Square is located at the intersection of Lawrence, Western and Lincoln Avenues. Lincoln Avenue south east of this intersection is home to a wide variety of restaurants and shops. Lincoln Square is historically known as a heavily German influenced and populated neighborhood, but now one is just as likely to see shops catering to Thai or Middle Eastern cultures. Still, the neighborhood is home to a number of German businesses, notably the Chicago Brauhaus, Merz Apothecary and Lutz Continental Café, and is the home of the Chicago branches of DANK (the German-American National Congress) and the Niedersachsen Club. The German-language weekly newspaper Amerika-Woche was born in Lincoln Square in 1972, though its original headquarters above the Brauhaus is now only a bureau.

Neighborhoods

Budlong Woods

Budlong Woods is a neighborhood of the Lincoln Square community area. It is named after the Budlong farming family of Chicago, who owned the Budlong Pickle Company.

Ravenswood

Ravenswood is a neighborhood encompassing Lincoln Square and a portion of the Uptown community area. It is bounded on the south by Montrose Avenue and on the north by Foster Avenue. To the east, the neighborhood extends past the Lincoln Square boundary to either Ashland Avenue or Clark Street, depending on the source. The neighborhood's historical western boundary is at Western Avenue, the former Lake View township line. Immediately to the west are Ravenswood Gardens (between Western and the Chicago River) and Ravenswood Manor (between the River and Sacramento Avenue). Ravenswood Manor is part of the Albany Park community area.
Ravenswood was developed with the intention of becoming an exclusive commuter suburb, but between 1868 and 1906, it was a sparsely populated area of the city largely occupied by farms and small homesteads. A development boom followed the construction of the Ravenswood elevated train line in 1906 and 1907, and the area filled up with small houses, two-flats and apartment buildings. Lincoln Square began to form as a commercial community in the heart of Ravenswood shortly after World War II. In the 1920s, the entire Ravenswood/Lincoln Square area was designated by the city as the "Lincoln Square" community area. There is no longer a clear consensus on what "Ravenswood" comprises: to some it now refers specifically to Ravenswood Gardens and Ravenswood Manor, west of Lincoln Square proper, while to others it refers to the area around Ravenswood Avenue, east of Lincoln Square, where the Ravenswood Metra station (formerly the Chicago and North Western Railroad) is located. The Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce

defines Ravenswood's boundaries as Montrose, Foster, Clark, and Leavitt streets.

Points of interest

Lawrence Hall Youth Services

Rosehill Cemetery

Sulzer Regional Library

Cambodian Association of Illinois

Old Town School of Folk Music

(External Link

)Berlin Wall Exhibit

Hospitals

Kindred North Hospital

Methodist Chicago Hospital

Swedish Covenant Hospital

Schools

Adler Schools

Amundsen High School

Budlong Elementary School

Chappell Elementary School

McPherson Elementary School

North Shore Junior Academy

Queen of Angels Elementary School

St. Hilary's Elementary School

St. Matthias/Transfiguration Elementary School

Waters Elementary School

North Park Elementary School

Public Art

Lincoln/Sunnyside Mural, 1997

The Maypole, 1999

Giddings Square Fountain, 1999

Lombard Lamp, 1979

Lincoln Statue, 1956

The Lincoln Square Mural, 1991

Events

The following events occur within the neighborhood on an annual basis.

Ravenswood Run 5K

May Fest

Lincoln Square Summer Concert Series

Folk & Roots Festival

Lincoln Square Sidewalk Sale

Lincoln Square Garden Walk

Lincoln Square Classic Car Show & Pinewood Derby

Lincoln Square Poetry Fest

German-American Fest

Lincoln Square Fall Apple Fest

Christmas Tree Lighting in the SquareFurther Information

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