Avondale Condos and Avondale Real Estate
Avondale is located on the Northwest Side about 5 miles from the Loop. Its main borders are the North Branch of the Chicago River, Diversey Avenue, Addison Street and Pulaski Road; bisecting the community are Belmont and Milwaukee Avenues along with the Kennedy Expressway (Interstate 90/Interstate 94). Located directly north of the Logan Square neighborhood, it is also accessible through the Belmont and Logan Square stations of the CTA Blue Line.
An early racially-integrated suburb, Avondale became part of Chicago when the city annexed the Town of Jefferson in 1889. Factories that sprang up by the railroads were responsible for the initial wave of European immigrants, mostly Germans, Scandinavians and Poles. This quiet blue collar neighborhood lately had an increase in the Hispanic population making it a truly diverse community.
Today Avondale has a vibrant and diverse commercial and residential composition of rising real estate prices including frame houses, modest brick bungalows, two flats, multi-units and condominiums.
The Avondale neighborhood of Jackowo, is one of Chicago's largest and most vibrant Polish neighborhoods. The neighborhood gets its name from Saint Hyacinth's Basilica (Bazylika ?w. Jacka), the local Catholic church, at 3636 West Wolfram Street. Milwaukee Avenue is the main strip with dozens of sausage shops, restaurants, bakeries etc. This area is sometimes called Polish Village - the name featured on many signs hung on street lamps.
The Polish community of Jackowo appeared in late 19th century and early 20th century, when hundreds of Poles settled there and began working in local factories. Although currently many of the Poles have moved out to other neighborhoods and are replaced by immigrants from Mexico or Puerto Rico, the area retains much of its Polish character.
In the 1880s, a small group of about 20 African American families settled east of Milwaukee Avenue and built the first church in Avondale, the Allen Church.
Rapid growth began in 1889 when the area was annexed to the city of Chicago. By 1920, the population exceeded 38,000. More than one-quarter of these residents were foreign-born, mostly Germans along with some Swedes and Austrians. By 1930 Poles constituted 33 percent of the population of 48,000. As new waves of Poles entered the community from the tenements west of the city center, German, Scandinavian and even some of the earlier Polish residents began to move further northwest. Poles remained the dominant ethnic group in 1980, but by 1990 Hispanics accounted for 37 percent of the total population.
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