Roscoe village presentation
- 1. ROSCOE VILLAGE JORDAN PHILLIPS COLLEEN MURRAY DYLAN ZERNICH
- 2. HISTORY • Land originally bought to build the “World’s largest amusement park” which opened in 1903 • Restaurants and bars were built to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of visitors (Hadley)
- 3. HISTORY • 1977 – crime became a problem with a series of garage fires • A group was formed to improve the safety of the community, it was successful • The neighborhood was restored (Hadley)
- 4. Things to do… o Park o Restaurants o Beat Kitchen o Clothing stores o Bars o More Bars FACTS
- 5. LOCATION OF ROSCOE VILLAGE • The neighborhood boundaries are Addison Street to the north, Ravenswood Avenue to the east, Belmont Avenue to the south, and the Chicago River to the west • The streets had a lot of trees growing along it • There were a lot of playgrounds on every other block • The houses were cute too! • How to get there?? Take the Red Line to the Belmont stop and take the bus to the intersection Belmont and Leavitt
- 6. DEMOGRAPHICS • Overall, Roscoe Village takes up .925 square miles • The total population is 16,244 people* • The racial diversity is 56% white, 26% Hispanic, 11.4% African American, 4% Asian, 2% mixed and .6% other* • 10.4% of the people are attending college at this time* • Median income is $92,000* • The percent below the poverty line is 8.7% (all from the US Census, website: city-data.com) * As of 2011