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Originally Posted by dennis1
I see the west and Northwest keep growing. Norwood Park and south shore are like two different planets.
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Norwood Park was largely rural and/or small town streetcar suburb like until WWII, in fact it includes a farmhouse that is arguably the oldest building in the city. It benefited greatly from the post WWII housing boom that created a "suburbanization" within the city limits between 1945-1965, something my family took part in so a subject that has always fascinated me. Chicago had a less than 2% population decline in the 1950's due to these outlying neighborhoods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood_Park,_Chicago
South Shore being a lakefront neighborhood meant that it is a traditional older urban neighborhood. However South Shore's population pretty much stayed about the same between 1930-1980 between 75K and 80K. The times of massive population decline were in the 1980's (in the 1990's it's population stayed pretty much dead even) and oddly enough the 2000's when it lost about 20% in both decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Shore,_Chicago