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Old Posted Jun 15, 2012, 2:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcu View Post
Nothing about the density or architecture of Rogers Park and Woodlawn resemble the south Bronx any more or less so than any other Chicago lakefront neighborhood.
The similarities are that parts of Woodlawn, South Shore and Rogers Park are high density african american neighborhoods which is unusual in Chicago where many more blacks either live in projects (many of which are now gone) or a majority in bungalows, two flats and small apartment buildings in neighborhoods that resemble Detroit more so than the Bronx.

Also Rogers Park has a density of about 30,000 per square mile and it and Uptown are really the only north lakefront neighborhoods with a significant black population and that density is fairly close to the average density of the Bronx. Of course the architecture is different, the apartment buildings in Rogers Park tend to be about two stories shorter than typical tenements in the Bronx and in Chicago they are not block long walls of buildings or anywhere near as wide spread but in that small area near the Howard Red Line stop in Rogers Park there are some similarities.
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