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Albany Park
The Albany Park community on
the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois (approximately 3400 west and 4800 north) is
well-located: midway between O'Hare International Airport (a 20 minute drive from the
intersection of Kimball and Lawrence Avenues) and the Chicago Loop (a 17 minute drive) and
5 minutes from the Kennedy and Edens Expressways. It is conveniently served by the CTA
Brown Line (Ravenswood) rapid transit, with stops at Kedzie Avenue and the Kimball Station
terminal.
The "Main Street" and commercial hub of the community is Lawrence Avenue. In
1976, a coalition of Lawrence Avenue business owners from the Albany Park Chamber of
Commerce, an community residents through the nonprofit North River Commission
community organization, united to breathe new life into the Albany Park commercial area by
creating the Lawrence Avenue Development Corporation (LADCOR). Together, these
organizations, working loosely with local aldermen and government officials, have
attracted more than $75 million in investment and 3,000 jobs to the Albany Park community.
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The Neighborhood Of Albany Park
Albany Park was and has remained a port-of-entry for new arrivals from around the
globe. According to 1990 U.S. Census figures, the area is 26 percent Asian, 31 percent
Hispanic and 12 percent Arab. The remaining residents primarily are white, of European
descent. Approximately 47 percent of the area's population was born in another country.
People of different cultures have been making Albany Park their second home since 1907,
when the Ravenswood El began to bring development to the sparsely populated neighborhood
around Kimball and Lawrence avenues.
The stretch of Lawrence Avenue through Albany Park, the heart of the neighborhood, was
renamed “Seoul Drive” because of its many Korean-owned businesses. At a local
music store you’ll find popular Middle-Eastern artists, and visitors can enjoy
Palestinian and Korean bakeries in Albany Park. The sounds of different languages and
types of music make the streets come alive. In this way, Albany Park can be welcoming,
instructive, and world-broadening.
As if that weren’t enough to draw interest, the neighborhood is also bordered by the
Chicago River, providing scenic and peaceful spots in the surrounding park area.
Albany Park’s developers and community organizations are hoping that more
middle-class people will move into Albany Park, an area roughly bounded by Pulaski Road
and Kedzie, Foster, and Montrose Avenues, where housing stock is relatively good. The
community's location, the last stop on the CTA rapid transit's Brown Line, makes it the
next natural spot for redevelopment.
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