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WildOnions.org has divided the city of Chicago
into twenty-one distinct regions by grouping together sections
of the city's official Community Areas, listed alphabetically
above. Thematic map and regional boundaries developed by
WildOnions.org. Chicago geographic data and source map from
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission.
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The city boundaries of Chicago contain many tens of communities,
some with a polished urban character, others with industrial
grit or suburban charm. Only in recent decades has the conglomeration
gained a cohesion somewhat akin to other concentrated metropolises,
although a description of the city as a "sprawling
plexus of industrial towns, local shopping districts, crowded
tenement neighborhoods, [and] green and spacious settlements"
from a 1939 guidebook seems well-recognizable some sixty-five
years later.
The heart of "Tourist Chicago" lies naturally
in its downtown area, focused in the Loop but spilling quite
a ways over into the Near North and Near South sides of
the city and with scattered sites in Hyde Park, Lincoln
Park, and the Far North as well. Chicago west of the lake
becomes largely a local's world of ethnic neighborhoods,
industrial corridors, gleaming churches, lovely parklands
and suburban-like residential enclaves.
Explore: Downtown
(Loop) - Far North - Far
Northwest - Far South - Far Southwest (South) - Far Southwest
(West) - Hyde Park and Kenwood - Mid South - Near North
- Near Northwest - Near South - Near Southwest - Near West
- North - Northwest - O'Hare
- South - Southeast - Southwest-South - West - West-Southwest
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