Chicago and beyond Mapping: What are Chicago’s neighborhoods, community areas and wards?

There are neighborhoods, community areas and chambers in Chicago, and each term has a different meaning. Curator of the CHM and community history Rebecah Coffee Differences, why did these differences exist and how they change over time, explored at our next exhibition Aquí en Chicago.

What is a society and is the same as the neighborhood? Chicago’s identity as the “city of neighborhoods” means what these neighborhoods are, what the Chicago living here is what they created and society. And yet, do not think about how we can divide and divide the city and have the countless way of thinking. This can be based on where you live, wherever you live, what businesses or place of work or place of worship. You can also have a part, a house in one place, the gaps you walk every day, street corners where your friends live.

Fiesta del Sol, Chicago, 1978 in Pilsen neighborhood August 1978. CHM, ITI-031836

While discussing neighborhoods, it is important to think about how the idea of ​​a neighborhood recently re-examined by the Chicago neighborhood project and a physical or political border used for a specific purpose. In the last part, Chicago is often divided into three main ways: neighborhoods, community areas and chambers.

(L) In the city of Chicago, in 1882, 1882. CHM, ICHI-092878
(R) For Chicago, September 19. In 1947. 1947. CHM, ICHI-173823

The wards are directly on politics. The city of Chicago is divided into 50 voting districts or wards, which in turn creates a seat of 50 cities. These are equally measured in equal measures based on the population, each as well as an average of 53,900 residents currently. According to the data collected in each decade, the borders of the wards can change through a process called redistribution.

Members of the Congress of Race Equality (work) are talking to the education council on segregated issues in school lines in schools and germanderered school lines. July 30, 1963, ST-60002620-0034, Chicago Solar Times collection, CHM

The Chamber can be redesigned, a break and a non-transparent process. For example, new district lines are offered by a domination, which is not a real physical map, but also the verbal description of the proposed space. In addition, gerrymandering or political manipulation of these borders can create deep equality by dividing more than one ward to more than one chamber, which continues the united economic and social stability.

Chicago community areas in 1937: Distribution of controlled playgrounds, p. 105, 1937. CHM, ICHI-183725; Chicago Recreation Property, Author

When the communities say, as it is at the opening of the above opening, many things that live in the same place, similar interests or hobbies, share the aspects of cultural identity and more. However, in Chicago, the community belongs to the formal prescribed community areas of the city. Unlike the neighborhood, these fixed sections – each has the same population. In the late 1920s, Robert Park and Ernest Burgess in 75 community in the 75 community in Chicago, the US Census Bureau, the Borders are still mainly unchanged. A small exception is the following additions to 77 community areas (1956) and Edgewater (1980), which we know today. The fields were carefully determined according to statistics such as income, crime ratio and health information. This unchanged borders proved to be useful for planning and learning.

Map Information Native land digitality. Used with permission for educational and non-commercial purposes.

However, the Chicago does not fully represent how the city’s accepts and their place where they live. An “field” is not the same as a certain place for the community or affiliation area. In addition, there is a countless way of thinking about one’s space and land related to space and land. For example, a digital map of the native land, ZHegagoynak / ZHigagoynak / Zhaagawaang / Zaagawaang / Šicaakonki (Chicago) agreements consisting of contracts contracts contracts contrary to the larger as it sees in language, tribal areas and most maps.

People who think like black, Latino / a / e, asian or asian as a place or a place, people who imagine the society more often as a place, people think more often. This applies to the idea of ​​a “neighborhood”, which is more fluid and subjective than a geopolitical community area, conceptual and practically. As the timing of the neighborhood borders and personality changes, and many more powerful place than a society region for many Chicagoans. Chicago neighborhoods are constantly changing the name and the name of the city, and today the city has more than 200 different neighborhoods, every holding claims to be individual personality and local pride.

In the 1920s and 1950s, the 1950s 1950, 1976, 1976, ICI-182192 and ICI-051192 and ICI-05112 and the community calculation of the racial and ethnicity produced by the city of Chicago

Seeing as a city of Chicago neighborhoods often goes hand in hand with “athnik” identity. This is usually considered in terms of the establishment of the places created in the cities of different nationalities and different nations, ethnic, races and languages. Henry C. Binford called this “Numerous Chicago” the idea of ​​”neighborhood” claims that there is an uncertain and argument concept. Instead, we must look at the city as a number of “Location Balls” with Binford, human interaction and countless examples of different dates.

Two-page Action Kit from the folding map, a project to combine each other with each other with each other with each other with each other with each other with each other with each other with each other in the north and southern parties. Folding map © 2020, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Maria Krysan. All rights reserved. Kit design by JNJ Creative, LLC; CHM, ICHI-183593A-002, ICHI-183593-003

The corresponding spatial inheritance is the identity of Chicago as one of the most allocated cities in the United States. In Chicago, the separation is especially reduced, and still remains the fourth most allocated city in the country.