| 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.)
Today West Ridge is one of Chicago's
better off communities, filled with thriving multi-ethnic
culture lining Devon Avenue, historic mansions lining
Ridge and Lunt Avenues, cultural institutions such as
St. Scholastica Academy and one of the highest per capita
incomes on the Northside of Chicago. It is represented
in City Council by Alderman Bernard Stone. 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.
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