West Ridge, Chicago

Community area
name = West Ridge
picture =

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number = 02
latdegree = 42
latarc = 00
longdegree = 87
longarc = 41.4
neighborhoods = * Golden Ghetto
* Nortown
* Peterson Park
* Rosehill
* West Ridge
* West Rogers Park
zips = 60645 and parts of 60659
kilos = 9.14
miles = 3.53
density = 73,199
capita = 8,006.3
percent = 11.97
status = up
year = 2000
prevyear = 1990
white = 49.7
black = 6.78
hispanic = 15.5
asian = 22.3
other = 5.65
income = 41,144

West Ridge or West Rogers Park is one of 77 well-defined Chicago, Illinois community areas. It is a middle class neighborhood located on the far north side of Chicago. It is located in the 50th Ward. It is bordered on the north by Howard Street, on the east by Ridge Boulevard, Western Avenue, and Ravenswood Avenue, the south by Bryn Mawr Avenue and Peterson Avenue, and on the west by Kedzie Avenue and the North Shore channel of the Chicago River. At one time joined with neighboring Rogers Park, it separated in the 1890's over a conflict concerning park districts (known as the Cabbage War.) .

It is home to the Midwest's largest Hasidic community, as well as other Jewish, Irish-American, German-American, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Assyrian, Russian, and Korean immigrant communities.

Golden Ghetto

The Golden Ghetto is bounded on the north by Warren Park and Pratt Avenue and on the south by Peterson Avenue. It acquired its name from the thriving Jewish community there from about 1930 to the mid-1970s. That community began to drift into the suburbs in the 1960s, and the neighborhood began to be home to South Asians and Russian Jews from about that time.

The heyday of the area is the topic of Adam Langer's "Crossing California", told from the perspective of the second-generation residents during their middle school and teenage years.

chools

* ABC Academy
* Bethesda Evangelical Lutheran School
* Arie Crown Hebrew Day School
* Bnos Rabbeinu High School
* Cheder Lubavitch Girls High School
* Clinton Elementary School
* Daniel Boone Elementary School
* Stephen Decatur Classical School
* George Armstrong Elementary School
* Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School
* Ida Crown Jewish Academy
* Jamieson Elementary School
* Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov High School
* Keshet High School
* Mather High School
* NAES College
* Philip Rogers Elementary School
* St. Hilary Elementary School
* St. Margaret Mary School
* St. Philips Evangelical Lutheran School
* St. Scholastica Academy
* Stone Elementary Academy
* Tzemach Tzedek Elementary School
* Vicytor C. Neumann School
* Yeshiva Migdal Torah School
* Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel-Veitzner Chedder

External links

* [http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_ATTACH/Community_Areas_WEST_RIDGE.pdf Official City of Chicago West Ridge Community Map]
* [http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/068C3D93-E5F8-4D02-8767-867161271B8A.cfm Chicago Park District: Indian Boundary Park]
* [http://www.lakesidecdc.org/ Lakeside Community Development Corporation]
* [http://neighborhoods.chicago.il.us/a/West_Ridge/Religious_Aspects_of_Devon_Avenue/ Photographs of Devon Avenue by Jordan Bettis]

Geographic Location
Center = West Ridge, Chicago
North = Evanston, Illinois
East = Rogers Park, Chicago
Southeast = Edgewater, Chicago
South = Lincoln Square, Chicago
Southwest = North Park, Chicago
West = Lincolnwood, Illinois
Northwest = Skokie, Illinois