Garfield Ridge is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is located on the southwest side of the city. The northern half of Midway International Airport is located in this community area.
Archer Heights, Chicago
Archer Heights is a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago.
The area was once a Native American trail. The neighborhood is bounded by the Stevenson Expressway to the north, the CTA Orange Line to the south, the Corwith railyard to the east, and the railroad tracks/Knox Avenue to the west.
Brighton Park, Chicago
Brighton Park is a neighborhood located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois. It is number 58 of the 77 community areas of Chicago.
Brighton Park is bordered on the north by the former Illinois & Michigan Canal and the current Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, on the east by Western Avenue, on the south by 49th Street, and on the west by Central Park Ave.
The neighborhood is a mix of residential areas, commercial zones, industrial works and transportation. It is relatively peaceful, according to Chicago Police Department statistics (2004 CPD Annual Report).
The Orange Line of the CTA serves the area.
McKinley Park, Chicago
McKinley Park, one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois, is located on the city's southwest side.
McKinley Park is served by three neighborhood newspapers: the "Bridgeport News", the "Archer Journal News" and the "Brighton Park/McKinley Park Life". The neighborhood newspapers are delivered weekly on Wednesdays to homes, businesses and other establishments throughout the neighborhood.
Two stops on the Orange Line rapid transit have boosted property values and created the development of a shopping mall on Archer and Ashland Avenue.
The area is named after President William McKinley.
West Elsdon, Chicago
West Elsdon, one of the 77 official community areas. It is located on the southwest side of the City of Chicago, Illinois. It is known as a twin neighborhood of West Lawn.
It has a population which includes a mix of Polish-American residents and increasing Mexican-American residents who have a clear majority.
Gage Park, Chicago
Gage Park is one of Chicago's 77 well-defined community areas, located on the city's southwest side. Gage Park's population is largely working-class, and its housing stock is mostly bungalows.
For generations, the neighborhood was Eastern European and Irish Catholic. The neighborhood remains overwhelmingly Catholic with the addition of many Hispanic residents.
On February 4, 2016, the bodies of six people were discovered in a home on the 5700 block of South California Avenue.
Gage Park murders
The Gage Park stabbings refers to the murders of six members of the Martinez family in the Gage Park neighborhood of Chicago.
On February 4, 2016, the bodies of Noe Martinez, his wife Rosaura, their son Noe Jr., their daughter Maria, and Maria's sons, Leonardo and Alexi, were discovered in the house in Gage Park, Chicago, Illinois. Five of the victims were stabbed to death, and the sixth victim, Maria Martinez, was shot.
On May 19, 2016, police arrested Diego Uribe, a relative of the family, and his girlfriend, Jafeth Ramos, in connection to the murders, saying that the massacre was a robbery gone horribly wrong.
Clearing, Chicago
Clearing, one of the 77 official community areas. It is located on the southwest side of the city of Chicago, Illinois. The southern portion of Chicago Midway International Airport is located within this community area.
Chrysler Village is on the eastern edge of the Chicago neighborhood of Clearing nestled between Midway Airport and the Clearing Industrial District.
West Lawn, Chicago
West Lawn, one of Chicago's 77 official community areas. It is located on the southwest side of the city. It is thought to be a "melting pot" of sorts, due to its change of races moving in and out of the area, as well as the diversity that exists there.
It has a small town atmosphere in the big city. West Lawn is home to many Polish-Americans, Irish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and other people of Latin American and Eastern European origin.
Ford City is a neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago which immediately surrounds the Ford City Mall, in turn named for the Ford Aircraft plant.
Michael Madigan, 67th and 69th Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, is a current resident of, and incumbent member of the Illinois House of Representatives for, West Lawn.
Chicago Lawn, Chicago
Chicago Lawn is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the southwest side of the city. Its community neighbors include Gage Park, West Englewood, Ashburn, and West Lawn.
It is bounded by Bell Avenue on the east, Central Park Avenue on the west, 59th Street on the north, and 75th Street on the south, and is southwest of the Loop. Local citizens refer to the area as "Marquette Park," after the park in its center.
West Englewood, Chicago
West Englewood, one of the 77 community areas. It is on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois. At one time it was known as South Lynne.
The boundaries of West Englewood are Garfield Blvd to the north, Racine Ave to the east, the CSX and Norfolk Southern RR tracks to the west, and the Belt Railway of Chicago to the south.
Though it is a separate community area, much of the history and culture of the neighborhood is linked directly to the Englewood neighborhood.
By 2000 due to the loss of jobs, the population of West Englewood had dropped to 45,282. By that time, with demographic changes, 98% of residents were black.
Antonio Valentín Angelillo
Antonio Valentín Angelillo (; 5 September 1937 – 5 January 2018) was an Argentine-born Italian football forward. He was born in Buenos Aires. He played the majority of his professional career in the Italian Serie A. He was a member of both the Argentine and the Italian national teams.
Angelillo died on 5 January 2018 in Siena, Italy of lung cancer at the age of 80.
Auburn Gresham, Chicago
Auburn Gresham, most commonly referred to simply as '"Gresham'", is one of the 77 official community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the far south side of the city and was the original location of the South Side Irish Parade before it was relocated to the Beverly neighborhood farther southwest in the city.
CTA red line stops at 79th St. and 87th St. are also available along the Dan Ryan Expressway in nearby Chatham.
Reino Ragnar Lehto
Reino Ragnar Lehto (2 May 1898 in Turku – 13 July 1966 in Helsinki) served as the caretaker Prime Minister of Finland from 18 December 1963 to 12 September 1964. He then served as governor of Uusimaa province from 1964 until his death on 13 July 1966.
Dan Ryan Expressway
The Dan Ryan Expressway is a freeway in the city of Chicago that runs from the Circle Interchange with I-290 near downtown Chicago through the South Side of the city.
It is designated as both Interstate 94 and Interstate 90 south to 66th Street, a distance of . It then becomes just Interstate 94 at the split with the Chicago Skyway (which leads to Interstate 90), with a remaining distance of .
This is a total distance of . The freeway was named for Dan Ryan, Jr., a former president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
Kennedy Expressway
The John F. Kennedy Expressway is a freeway in metropolitan Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It travels from the neighborhood of West Loop to O'Hare International Airport. The highway is named for the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy.
The Interstate 90 (I-90) portion of the Kennedy is a part of the much longer I-90 (which runs from Boston, Massachusetts to Seattle, Washington). The Kennedy's official endpoints are the Circle Interchange with Interstate 290 (Eisenhower Expressway/Congress Parkway) and the Dan Ryan Expressway (also I-90/94) at the east end, and the O'Hare Airport terminals at the west end.