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Community Area 02 - West Ridge Location within the city of Chicago | ||
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| ZIP Code | 60645 and parts of 60659 | |
| Area | 9. The City of Chicago is divided into seventy-seven community areas. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi ( Φ) gives the location of a place on Earth (or other planetary body north or south of the Longitude (ˈlɒndʒɪˌtjuːd or ˈlɒŋgɪˌtjuːd symbolized by the Greek character Lambda (λ is the east-west Geographic coordinate measurement The neighborhoods of Chicago are less well-defined than Chicago 's 77 Community Areas. The ZIP code is the system of Postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 14 km² (3. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 53 mi²) | |
| Population (2000) Density | 73,199 (up 11. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different 97% from 1990) 8,006. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) 3 /km² | |
| Demographics | White Black Hispanic Asian Other | 49. Demographics or demographic data refers to selected population characteristics as used in government Marketing or opinion research or the Demographic profiles 7% 6. 78% 15. 5% 22. 3% 5. 65% |
| Median income | $41,144 USD | |
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West Ridge or West Rogers Park is one of 77 well-defined Chicago, Illinois community areas. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The City of Chicago is divided into seventy-seven community areas. It is a middle class neighborhood located on the far north side of Chicago. It is located in the 50th Ward. 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. Physical geography, a channel is the physical confine of a River, slough or ocean Strait consisting of a bed and banks The Chicago River is 156 miles (251 km long and flows through downtown Chicago. 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. Rogers Park is the northernmost of Chicago community areas in the far North Side of Chicago, Illinois. )
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. Devon Avenue (dɨˈvɒn is a major east-west thoroughfare in the Chicago metropolitan area. Scholastica Academy and one of the highest per capita incomes on the Northside of Chicago. It is represented in City Council by Alderman Bernard Stone. Bernard 'Bernie' L Stone (born November 24, 1927) is alderman of the 50th Ward in Chicago, Illinois.
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 communities. Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, etc from the Hebrew: he '''''חסידות''''', Chassidus, meaning "piety" from the Hebrew Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánach are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. The Assyrians are an Ethnic group whose origins lie in what is today Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. The Russian people (Русские— Russkie) are an East Slavic Ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries The Korean people are an East Asian Ethnic group. Most Koreans speak the Korean language.
Golden Ghetto
The Golden Ghetto is bounded on the north by Warren Park and Pratt Avenue and on the south by Peterson Avenue. It acquired its name from the thriving Jewish community there from about 1930 to the mid-1970s. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ That community began to drift into the suburbs in the 1960s, and the neighborhood began to be home to South Asians and Russian Jews from about that time.
The heyday of the area is the topic of Adam Langer's Crossing California, told from the perspective of the second-generation residents during their middle school and teenage years. Middle school or Junior High School serves as a "bridge" between the Elementary School and the High School
Schools
- ABC Academy
Bethesda Evangelical Lutheran School
- Arie Crown Hebrew Day School
- Bnos Rabbeinu High School
- Cheder Lubavitch Girls High School
- Clinton Elementary School
Daniel Boone Elementary School
- Stephen Decatur Classical School
- George Armstrong Elementary School
- Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School
- Ida Crown Jewish Academy
- Jamieson Elementary School
- Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov High School
- Keshet High School
- Mather High School
- NAES College
- Philip Rogers Elementary School
- St. The Ida Crown Jewish Academy is an Orthodox Jewish high school in West Rogers Park Chicago, Illinois overseen by the Associated Talmud Torahs Stephen Tyng Mather High School is located in one of Chicago's most diverse areas Hilary Elementary School
- St. Philips Evangelical Lutheran School
- Stone Elementary Academy
- Tzemach Tzedek Elementary School
- Vicytor C. Neumann School
- Yeshiva Migdal Torah School
- Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel-Veitzn
External links
- Official City of Chicago West Ridge Community Map
- Chicago Park District: Indian Boundary Park
- Lakeside Community Development Corporation
- Photographs of Devon Avenue by Jordan Bettis
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