Chicago Neighborhoods - Lincoln Square Condos, Real Estate
Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods. The rich texture of people from so many places around the world make Chicago one of the most interesting and exciting cities in the world. Each neighborhood is unique and offers an opportunity to know another facet of the “windy city”.
Chicago has a large Irish-American population on its South Side. Many of the city's politicians have come from this population, including current mayor Richard M. Daley. Other European ethnic groups are the Germans, Italians and Polish.
The majority of African Americans are located on Chicago's South Side, although there is a sizable population on the West Side. Chicago has the second largest African American population for any city in the U.S. in its metropolitan area, behind only New York City. We also have the largest population of Swedish-Americans of any city in the U.S. with approximately 123,000. Swedish culture and history is especially evident in Andersonville.
Chicago has one of the U.S.'s largest concentrations of Italian Americans as 500,000 live in the metropolitan area as well as the largest Bulgarian community in the world (outside Bulgaria) with more than 150,000 Bulgarians living in the city. Chicago is especially known for the large number of Polish people. Except for Warsaw, Chicago has the largest number of Poles of any city in the world.
According to Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia), Chicago is also the second-largest Serbian and Lithuanian city, and the third largest Greek city in the world. Chicago has a large Romanian-American community with more than 100,000, as well as a large Assyrian population with about 80,000. The city is home to the seat of the head of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are headquartered here.
The Chicago Metropolitan area is also a major center for Indian-Americans and South Asians. Chicago has the third-largest South Asian population in the United States, after New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The Devon Avenue corridor on Chicago's north side is one of the largest South Asian neighborhoods/markets in North America.
Chicago has the second-largest Puerto Rican population in the United States after New York City. It also has the second largest Mexican population in the United States after Los Angeles. There are also around 185,000 Arabs in Chicago with the majority located in the suburban parts of Cook County around Chicago.
The Gay and Lesbian community is concentrated in Andersonville and Lakeview and is also represented in most other areas of the city as well.
Over one third of the population of Chicago is concentrated in the lakefront neighborhoods of the city (from Rogers Park in the north to Hyde Park in the south). Encompassing roughly 55 square miles (of 229 sq/miles of city) and 1.2 million people with a population density of 21,205 people per square mile (with many neighborhoods with 2-3 times the average density). This makes Chicago's lakefront the most densely populated area in the United States outside of New York City.
Chicago Government:
Chicago is the county seat of Cook County. The government of the City of Chicago is divided into executive and legislative branches. The Mayor of Chicago is the chief executive, elected by general election for a term of four years. The mayor appoints commissioners and other officials who oversee the various departments. In addition to the mayor, Chicago's two other citywide elected officials are the clerk and the treasurer.
The City Council is the legislative branch and is made up of 50 aldermen, one elected from each ward in the city. The council enacts local ordinances and approves the city budget. Government priorities and activities are established in a budget ordinance usually adopted each November. The council takes official action through the passage of ordinances and resolutions.
Wikipedia states that during much of the last half of the 19th century, Chicago's politics were dominated by a growing Democratic Party organization dominated by ethnic “ward-healers”. During the 1880s and 1890s, Chicago had a powerful radical tradition with large and highly organized socialist, anarchist and labor organizations.
For much of the 20th century, Chicago has been among the largest and most reliable Democratic strongholds in the United States, with Chicago's Democratic vote totals' leading the state of Illinois to be "solid blue" in presidential elections since 1992.
The citizens of Chicago have not elected a Republican mayor since 1927, when William Thompson was voted into office. The strength of the party in the city is partly a consequence of Illinois state politics, where the Republicans have come to represent the rural and farm concerns while the Democrats support urban issues such as Chicago's public school funding.
Lincoln Square Subdivisions
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