| Austin, located
on the Far West Side of Chicago, Illinois, is the largest
(by population) of the city's 77 officially defined
community areas (neighborhoods), followed by Lakeview.
Its eastern boundary is Cicero Avenue. Its northernmost
border is the Milwaukee District/West Line. Its southernmost
border is at Roosevelt Road from Cicero Avenue west
to Austin Boulevard. The northernmost portion, north
of North Avenue, extends west to Harlem Avenue, abutting
Elmwood Park. Other suburbs bordering Austin are Cicero
and Oak Park. Also nearby is Berwyn.
Austin is one of Chicago's largest
community areas by land area. Several distinctive areas
within Austin include Midway Park, a historic district
of restored 19th-century single-family homes in the
core of the original Austin subdivision; Galewood, the
northernmost section of Austin along the northern border
with Oak Park but south of the Galewood railyards; and
The Island, a square mile in the extreme southwest corner
of Austin, which is bordered by Cicero to the south
and Oak Park to the west and which is isolated from
other residential area in the city by the Eisenhower
Expressway and Columbus Park to the north and an industrial
area to the east.
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