Month: May 2020

Bucktown is a Chicago neighborhood located in the Eastern part of the Logan Square community area. It’s directly North of Wicker Park. It was named Bucktown because of the large number of goats raised by the mostly Polish residents of the area in the 19th century. The Polish name for the area was Kozie Prery (Goat Prairie). Its boundaries are Fullerton on the North, Western on the West, Bloomingdale or North Avenue on the South, and the Kennedy Expressway on the East. It was an industrial area and made up of the Polish in the 1830s and later, as well as Germans in 1848 and 1854. In the 1960s the area was largely Hispanic and is currently a very gentrified area. I hope you enjoy this virtual walk around Bucktown.

Visiting the 2100 block of West Caton Street in Wicker Park is like taking a step back in time to the grandeur of the mid to late 1800s. Caton Street is located between Milwaukee Avenue and Leavitt Street. These incredibly ornate homes were mostly built by Scandinavian businessmen and professionals and are well maintained.The homes were built primarily in the Queen Anne, Queen Anne Victorian, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival and Gothic Revival styles. It is the most beautiful street I’ve ever been on in any city, state or country I’ve ever visited! I hope you enjoy this virtual walk down this amazing street!

Also known as the West Jackson Boulevard District or West Jackson Historic District. It was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1976 and put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is a historic district on the Near West Side of Chicago. Most of the buildings are from 1879 through 1893. The area is bounded by Laflin, Ashland, Adams, and Van Buren Streets. The architectural styles are: Second Empire, Italianate, Queen Anne and other styles. It also includes the Church of the Epiphany.