A Walk Around Bucktown

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.