Lincoln Park, Chicago: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Community area in Chicago}}

{{About|the community area|the adjacent park|Lincoln Park|other uses|Lincoln Park (disambiguation)}}

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| population_as_of = 2020

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| population_note =

| population_density_km2 = 8,409.8

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| demographics1_title1 = [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|White]]

| demographics1_title2 = Black

| demographics1_title3 = Hispanic

| demographics1_title4 = Asian

| demographics1_info4 = 7.2%

| demographics1_title5 = Other

| demographics1_info5 = 3.00%

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| demographics2_title1 = High School Diploma or Higher

| demographics2_title2 = Bachelor's Degree or Higher

| timezone = [[Central Time Zone (North America)|CST]]

| utc_offset = -6

| postal_code = parts of 60614

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| footnotes = Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services

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== History ==

In 1836, land from North to Fullerton and from the lake to Halsted was relatively inexpensive, costing {{convert|150|$/acre|$/ha}} (1836 prices, not adjusted for inflation). Because the area was considered remote, a [[smallpox]] hospital and the city cemetery were located in Lincoln Park until the 1860s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of Cook County, Illinois--: Being a General Survey of Cook County History, Including a Condensed History of Chicago and Special Account of Districts Outside the City Limits; from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2|last=Goodspeed|first=Weston Arthur|publisher=Goodspeed Historical Association|year=1909|location=Chicago|pages=381–382|isbn=9780608368948 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VtwSAAAAYAAJ&q=chicago+lincoln+park+smallpox+hospital}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hiddentruths.northwestern.edu/city_cemetery/city_cem60_64.html|title=Hidden Truths: Chicago City Cemetery|website=hiddentruths.northwestern.edu|access-date=2016-10-08}}</ref>

 

 

 

From 1896 to 1903, the original [[Ferris Wheel (1893)|Ferris Wheel]] was located at a small amusement park near Clark St. and Wrightwood Ave.<ref>"Paradises Lost" by Stan Barker in Chicago History March 1993, p.32)</ref> The site was from 2619 to 2665 N. Clark St., which is now the location of a McDonald's and a high-rise residential building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/ferrisfollowup.html |title=Hyde Park Historical Society Ferris Wheel Follow-up |website=hydeparkhistory.org |access-date=2012-05-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514092030/http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/ferrisfollowup.html |archive-date=May 14, 2012 }}</ref> On February 14, 1929, seven [[American Mafia|mob]] associates and a mechanic were [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre|shot to death in an automobile garage]] at 2122 N. Clark St.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/chi-chicagodays-valentinesmassacre-story-story.html|title=The St. Valentine's Day Massacre|last=Tribune|first=Chicago|newspaper=chicagotribune.com|access-date=2016-10-08|archive-date=November 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122140057/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/chi-chicagodays-valentinesmassacre-story-story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

 

 

In 1968, a violent confrontation between demonstrators and police in Lincoln Park occurred during the week of the [[1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity|1968 Democratic National Convention]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.chicagohistory.org/index.php/2011/06/yippies-in-lincoln-park-1968/|title=Yippier in Lincoln Park, 1968|website=blog.chicagohistory.org|access-date=2014-08-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073042/http://blog.chicagohistory.org/index.php/2011/06/yippies-in-lincoln-park-1968/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

{{blockquote|I pointed out that it was in the best interests of the City to have us in Lincoln Park [[1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity|ten miles away]] from the Convention hall. I said we had no intention of marching on the Convention hall, that I didn't particularly think that politics in America could be changed by marches and rallies, that what we were presenting was an alternative life style, and we hoped that people of Chicago would come up, and mingle in Lincoln Park and see what we were about.|''[[Abbie Hoffman]] from the [[Chicago 7]] trial''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Hoffman.html|title=Abbie Hoffman's testimony at the Chicago 7 trial|website=law.umkc.edu|access-date=2012-05-26|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114071619/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Hoffman.html|archive-date=January 14, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>}}

 

In 1969, members of the Puerto Rican [[Young Lords]] and residents and activists mounted gigantic demonstrations and protested the displacement of Puerto Ricans and the poor including the demolition of buildings on the corner of Halsted and Armitage streets, by occupying the space and some administration buildings at McCormick Theological Seminary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fourteeneastmag.com/index.php/2018/09/28/50-years-later-lessons-in-activism-from-the-young-lords-of-lincoln-park/|title=50 Years Later: Lessons in Activism from the Young Lords of Lincoln Park – Fourteen East}}</ref> There were civil rights arrests and martyrs including the unsolved murders of United Methodist Rev. Bruce Johnson and his wife Eugenia Ransier Johnson who were strong supporters of the poor. Today their history is archived at DePaul University's Richardson Library and at Special Collections at Grand Valley State University.

 

On [[2003 Chicago balcony collapse|June 29, 2003, a porch collapse]] occurred during a party at 713 W. Wrightwood Ave. The disaster was the deadliest [[porch collapse]] in U.S. history; 13 people were killed and 57 seriously injured.

 

 

==Community area==

{{US Census population

|1930=97873

|1940=100826

|2010=64116

|2020=70492

|footnote=<ref name="cmap" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Paral |first=Rob |title=Chicago Community Areas Historical Data |url=http://www.robparal.com/downloads/ACS0509/HistoricalData/Chicago%20Community%20Areas%20Historical%20Data.htm |access-date=30 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318055428/http://www.robparal.com/downloads/ACS0509/HistoricalData/Chicago%20Community%20Areas%20Historical%20Data.htm |archive-date=March 18, 2013 }}</ref>

}}

It encompasses a number of neighborhoods, including Lincoln Central, Mid-North, [[Old Town, Chicago|Old Town Triangle]], Park West, [[RANCH Triangle]], Sheffield, and Wrightwood Neighbors. The area also includes most of the [[Clybourn Corridor]] retail district, which continues into the Near North Side. Lincoln Park neighborhood associations include: Lincoln Central Association, Mid-North Association, Old Town Triangle Association, Park West Community Association, RANCH Triangle Community Conservation Association, Sheffield Neighborhood Association, and Wrightwood Neighbors Association. All are affiliated with the Lincoln Park Conservation Association.

 

 

 

[[A. Finkl & Sons Steel]] operated on the west side of Lincoln park along an approximately 22-acre lot by the Chicago River for 113 years. The site is now vacant and is the site of the proposed [[Lincoln Yards (development)|Lincoln Yards]] project.

Lincoln Park, for which the neighborhood was named, now stretches miles past the neighborhood of Lincoln Park. The park lies along the lakefront from Ohio Street Beach in the Streeterville neighborhood, northward to Ardmore Avenue in [[Edgewater, Chicago|Edgewater]]. The section of the park adjacent to the Lincoln Park neighborhood contains the [[Lincoln Park Zoo]], [[Lincoln Park Conservatory]], an outdoor theatre, a rowing canal, the [[Chicago Historical Society|Chicago History Museum]], the [[Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum]], the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, the North Pond Nature Sanctuary, [[North Avenue Beach]], [[playing field]]s, a very prominent statue of General [[Ulysses S. Grant]], as well as a famous statue of [[Standing Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln]] (and many other statues).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1995/ihy951213.html|title=The Statues of Chicago's Lincoln Park|website=lib.niu.edu|access-date=2012-05-26|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616212106/http://www.lib.niu.edu/1995/ihy951213.html|archive-date=June 16, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

 

 

==Transportation==

[[Image:Fullerton CTA 20100912.jpg|thumb|right|Fullerton station]]

 

Via car, Lincoln Park can be reached by using [[Lake Shore Drive]] or the [[Kennedy Expressway]].

==Politics==

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Lincoln Park residents are served by [[Chicago Public Schools]], which includes neighborhood and citywide options for students.

 

 

 

 

The [[French-American School of Chicago]], a program for advanced French speakers, holds its classes at Lincoln Elementary and Lincoln Park High.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.efachicago.org/home-2/|title=Home|publisher=[[French-American School of Chicago]]|access-date=April 28, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514061514/http://www.efachicago.org/home-2|archive-date=May 14, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

[[File:Wieners Circle IMG 2083.jpg|thumb|[[The Wieners Circle]]]]

 

 

==Music==

 

 

In 1972, Chicago folk singer [[Steve Goodman]] wrote the song "Lincoln Park Pirates" about [[Lincoln Towing Service]].{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

Lincoln Park was home to a number of important historic figures including:

* [[J. J. Bittenbinder]] (1942–2023), police officer, television host, and author. He was a childhood resident of the DePaul neighborhood in Lincoln Park.<ref>{{cite news|title=The J.J. Bittenbinder Show: From church basements to TV, a Chicago cop gets top billing with his tips on stayin' alive|last=Lyon|first=Jeff|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=May 2, 1993|page=SM22|quote=growing up in the DePaul neighborhood|via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref>

* [[Henry Darger]], the outsider artist, lived at 851 W. Webster Ave.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.art.org/collection/henry-darger/ |title=Henry Darger Room |work=INTUIT |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223002607/http://www.art.org/collection/henry-darger/ |archive-date=February 23, 2011 }}</ref> and worked as a janitor at Children's Memorial Hospital.

* [[Henry Gerber]], the founder of the first homosexual rights organization in the US, lived at 1710 N. Crilly Court.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1313&counter=145|title=COC - Landmarks web - Landmark Details}}</ref>

* [[Bruce Graham]], the famous [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]] architect, lived in a house he himself designed in 1969.<ref>AIA Guide to Chicago, page 187 (1993 edition)</ref>

*[[Jose Cha Cha Jimenez|Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez]], founder of the [[Young Lords]] who fought the forced displacement of Puerto Ricans and the poor from Lincoln Park.

* [[Kelly Loeffler]] (born 1970), [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] and businesswoman. She lived in Lincoln Park while studying at [[Kellstadt Graduate School of Business]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Sweet|first=Lynn|title=Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler's ties to downstate Illinois, Chicago run deep|date=January 4, 2021|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=January 6, 2021|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/1/4/22214376/georgia-runoff-sen-kelly-loeffler-university-of-illinois-depaul-university-grad-lived-chicago}}</ref>

* [[László Moholy-Nagy]], the Bauhaus and IIT designer, lived at 2622 N. Lakeview Ave.<ref name="chicagotribute1"/>

* [[Walter Netsch]], an architect, and his wife [[Dawn Clark Netsch]], the 4th [[Illinois Comptroller]], lived at 1700 N. Hudson Ave. The house was designed by Walter in 1974.<ref>AIA Guide to Chicago, page 177 (1993 edition)</ref>

* [[Albert Parsons]] and [[Lucy Parsons]], the prominent union organizers and socialist leaders, lived at 1908 N. Mohawk St.<ref name="chicagotribute1"/>

* [[Sargent Shriver]] and [[Eunice Kennedy]]. They moved to Lincoln Park from the Near North Side shortly after Shriver was appointed [[President of the Chicago Board of Education]].<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--None-->|title=Robert S. Shriver, 39, Heads School Board: Mart Executive Plans Visit to Mayor Daley|date=October 27, 1955|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|page=3|via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref>

* [[Charlie Trotter]], chef.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110326/ISSUE03/303269987/the-celebrity-next-door-famous-neighbors-mean-bragging-rights-extra-security|title=Subscription Center|date=March 26, 2011}}</ref>

* [[Luis Vicente Gutiérrez]], politician, grew up in Lincoln Park until the age of 13.

* [[Jonathan Toews]], NHL hockey player

 

A large number of significant business and civic leaders currently live in Lincoln Park, including [[Penny Pritzker]], [[Fred Eychaner]], and [[Joe Mansueto]].

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