Talk:Uptown, Chicago

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OK people, here's my opinion regarding this page: it should be about the Community Area of Uptown. For those that still don't know or understand, Community Area boundaries don't change over time, they are officially defined and are static. So for the eight millionth time :), Buena Park is located in Uptown, no part of it even touches Lake View. Look at a map people! Lake View stops at Irving, east of Clark Street.  Buena Park is only a few square blocks big, and none of it extends south of Irving Park.

I'm sick of being told by developers that i live in Lake View, when in fact I am a block away from the orignal Uptown elevated terminal station. Lake View is nice, but I LOVE UPTOWN the way it is! Stop degrading the name of Uptown by claiming that all the "upscale" parts of it are in another community area. Consult a map before you start yappin' your nonsense!

Besides those errors, the latest edits are pretty nice...cool map too!

J. Crocker

Buena Park "touches" Lakeview. Along Irving Park east of Broadway, the north side of the street is in Buena Park (Uptown) and the south side is in Lakeview. Some people call that part of Buena Park "Clarendon Park," but for neighborhoods (as opposed to Community Areas) definitions are not fixed. 67.173.10.34 (talk) 08:01, 5 December 2015 (UTC)Larry Siegel

The Neighborhoods of Uptown
According to the Chicago interactive city map, (http://maps.cityofchicago.org/mapchicago/viewer.htm), the neighborhood of Ravenswood is west of Clark Street, between Foster and Montrose Avenues and extends westward beyond the Uptown boundary and to the north branch of the Chicago river, which is the western boundary of the Lincoln Square community. The Ravenswood neighborhood started in the mid nineteenth century and should be represented in this excellent neighborhood map.

In addition, The map stated above does not show the Truman Square, Anderson Terrace, Argyle Park, Lakeside or Clarendon Park neighborhoods. They are represented in the map as the Uptown neighborhood. Can these neighborhoods be found in books on the subject? Rkm3612 00:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Clarification of Andersonville & Andersonville Terrace Borders
This is something we should all figure out how to identify: see section regarding Andersonville on Edgewater talk page:  Talk:Edgewater, Chicago

End of the tracks
The article says " For a time, all northbound trains from downtown ended in Uptown.[citation needed] From here Uptown became known as an entertainment destination." Such an unreferenced set of claims is unacceptable and should be supported by reliable sources or removed. Edison (talk) 16:11, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * We have an article on the Chicago and Milwaukee Railway which says it was chartered in 1851 and had tracks extending from Chicago to Milwaukee by 1855, running near Lake Michigan, and was a predecessor of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad which eventually was sold to the Union Pacific, which presently operates trains from Chicago going north past Uptown. There never was an era when "the tracks ended in Uptown" so far as the actual passenger railroad was concerned (that is, heavy rail powered by traditional locomotives (Maybe one week in 1852?). Then there is light rail such as elevated trains, CTA and presently Metra. The article Northwestern Elevated Railroad says that their elevated trains ran from the Loop as far as Wilson in Uptown from 1900. In 1908 the tracks were extended several miles north to Evanston. It seems hard to believe that the "for a time" of 1900 to 1908 would be sufficient to make Uptown an "entertainment destination." Edison (talk) 16:37, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Why is it hard to believe? Chicago grew by ~500,000 people in that decade. But at any rate, I did not write the sentence Nonetheless, that it became a center for entertainment is true but the sentence you are talking about says nothing about entertainment, but, as you note, the elevated tracks did end at Uptown, for a time (and is now the CTA). The heavy rail line bed is, it appears, still used by the Metra line beyond the western boundary of Uptown - they don't enter Uptown. Alanscottwalker (talk) 17:34, 25 August 2015 (UTC) The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge opened in 1907 and Essanay Studios moved there in 1908. Alanscottwalker (talk) 17:50, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added a cite. Alanscottwalker (talk) 18:32, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

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