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[[File:Chicago community areas map.svg| alt= a colored map showing the 77 Chicago community areas broken into 9 regions|thumb | A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by
The city of [[Chicago]] is divided into 77 '''community areas''' for statistical and planning purposes. [[United States Census|Census]] data and other statistics are tied to the areas, which serve as the basis for a variety of [[urban planning]] initiatives on both the local and regional levels. The areas' boundaries do not generally change, allowing comparisons of statistics across time. The areas are distinct from but related to the more numerous [[List of neighborhoods in Chicago|neighborhoods]] of Chicago; an area often corresponds to a neighborhood or encompasses several neighborhoods, but the areas do not always correspond to popular conceptions of the neighborhoods due to a number of factors including historical evolution and choices made by the creators of the areas. {{As of | 2020}}, [[Near North Side, Chicago|Near North Side]] is the most populous of the areas with over 105,000 residents, while [[Burnside, Chicago|Burnside]] is the least populous with just over 2,500. Other geographical divisions of Chicago exist, such as the "sides"
The Social Science Research Committee at the [[University of Chicago]] defined the community areas in the 1920s based on neighborhoods or groups of related neighborhoods within the city. In this effort it was led by sociologists [[Robert E. Park]] and [[Ernest Burgess]], who believed that physical contingencies created areas that would inevitably form a common identity. Except for the addition of two areas ([[O'Hare, Chicago|O'Hare]] from land annexed by the city in 1956 and [[Edgewater, Chicago|Edgewater]]'s separation from [[Uptown, Chicago|Uptown]] in 1980) and peripheral expansions due to minor annexations, the areas' boundaries have never been revised to reflect change but instead have been kept stable. The areas have become a part of the culture of Chicago, contributing to its perception as a "city of neighborhoods" and breaking it down into smaller regions for easier analysis and local planning. Nevertheless, Park's and Burgess's ideas on the inevitability of physically related areas forming a common bond have been questioned, and the unchanging nature of the areas has at times been
==History==
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The areas are used for statistical and planning purposes by such professions as assessors, charities, and reporters.<ref name="Tribune"/> Shortly after their development they were used for all kinds of statistics, including movie theater distribution and juvenile delinquency.<ref name="Tribune"/> Although developed by the University of Chicago, they have been used by other universities in the Chicago area, as well as by the city and regional planners.<ref name="Tribune"/> They have contributed to Chicago's reputation as the "city of neighborhoods", and are argued to break up an intimidating city into more manageable pieces.<ref name="Tribune"/> Chicago was an early adopter of such a system, and {{as of | 1997 | lc=y}} most cities in the United States still lacked analogous divisions.<ref name="Tribune"/>
The areas do not necessarily correspond to popular imagination of the neighborhoods.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> For example, the Pilsen and Back of the Yards neighborhoods are much better known than their respective community areas [[Lower West Side, Chicago|Lower West Side]] and [[New City, Chicago|New City]].<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> In the case of New City this was a deliberate choice; Burgess opted for the less common "New City" to name the area as "Back of the Yards" carried a stigma after the publication of [[Upton Sinclair]]'s ''[[The Jungle]]'' (1904), which made the area notorious for its poor living conditions.<ref name="Tribune"/> Some of these discrepancies are due to names that were common at the time of the adoption of community areas but have since been supplanted by others.<ref name="Tribune"/> The static nature of area boundaries is one of their benefits, but is also problematic at times such as when expressways were built in the mid-20th century and divided neighborhoods without
==List of community areas==
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