| 词条 | Belmont Cragin, Chicago |
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|name = Belmont Cragin |official_name = Community Area 19 - Belmont Cragin |other_name = |nickname = |settlement_type = {{nowrap|Community area}} |motto = |image_skyline =Jacob_A_Riis_Park_Fieldhouse.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption =Jacob A. Riis Park Fieldhouse |image_map = US-IL-Chicago-CA19.svg |mapsize = |map_caption = Location within the city of Chicago |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |pushpin_map = |pushpin_label_position = |pushpin_map_caption = |pushpin_mapsize = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Illinois |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Cook |subdivision_type3 = City |subdivision_name3 = Chicago |parts_type = Neighborhoods |parts_style=list |parts = |p1 = Belmont Central |p2 = Cragin |p3 = Hanson Park |p4 = Kelvyn Park |p5 = Hermosa |p6 = Galewood |p7 = Montclare |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 =10.20 |population_as_of = 2015[1] |population_footnotes = |population_total = 79,159 |population_note = |population_density_km2 = auto |demographics_type1 =Demographics 2015[1] |demographics1_footnotes = |demographics1_title1 =White |demographics1_info1 = 14.24% |demographics1_title2 =Black |demographics1_info2 = 3.14% |demographics1_title3 =Hispanic |demographics1_info3 = 80.04% |demographics1_title4 =Asian |demographics1_info4 = 1.49% |demographics1_title5 =Other |demographics1_info5 = 1.09% |timezone = CST |utc_offset = -6 |timezone_DST = CDT |utc_offset_DST = -5 |coordinates = {{coord|41|55.8|N|87|45.6|W|region:US|display=inline,title}} |postal_code_type = ZIP Codes |postal_code = parts of 60634, 60635, 60639, 60641 |area_code = |blank_name = Median household income |blank_info = $43,534[1] |website = |footnotes = Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services }} Belmont Cragin is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas located on the Northwest Side of the City of Chicago, Illinois. It is designated Community Area 19, and is located {{convert|8|mi|km}} NW of the Loop. HistoryBeginningsThe first business to open in Belmont Cragin was a saloon opened by George Merrill sometime after 1835, when he settled with his family at the intersection of Armitage and Grand Avenues. Operating the saloon out of his home, Merrill catered to truck farmers carrying produce over the plank road to the city. The corner, named Whiskey Point, prompted many colorful and romanticized legends but attracted few permanent residents. In 1862, Michael Moran established a hotel at Whiskey Point, but the area remained rural until 20 years later, when Cragin Brothers & Company moved their tin plate and sheet iron processing plant near Whiskey Point. The plant and warehouses covered {{convert|11|acre|m2}}, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built a station at Leclaire Avenue to accommodate all the employees. Cragin also purchased a rivet company and moved machinery and workers from Connecticut to the location. Job opportunities and rail service brought settlers and a housing boom to the town, now named Cragin. Within two years, Cragin's population was 200, and the community boasted a general store, two schoolhouses, and a Congregational church. The area rests on prairie and a ridge that was formed by a glacier. It was settled by farmers before the population took off from residents leaving Chicago for better living conditions and new factories in the area. Belmont-Cragin was eventually annexed by the City of Chicago. Industrialization and developmentRailroads drew more factories and workers to the area, which was annexed into Chicago as part of Jefferson Township in 1889. The Belt Railway Company extended its service into the area in 1883, and plants developed in the new neighborhoods of Hanson Park and Galewood. In the same year, the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company launched a branch for its wire products, and the Western Brick and Tile Company found Galewood's superior clay soil conducive to business. By 1891, Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company Iron Works, the Pitts Agricultural Works Warehouse, and the Rice and Bullen Malting Company brought more people into Cragin. In 1922 W. F. Hall Printing Company erected a plant on {{convert|17|acre|m2}} adjacent to the Northwestern railroad line, which further spurred manufacturing development. Swedish, German, and Irish workers were among the earliest to move near these factories. By 1920, these jobs drew Poles and Italians as well, and the population of the area more than quadrupled in the next decade. By 1930 the population escalated to 60,221, one-third foreign-born. In the 1930s, the community area became known as Belmont Cragin. Other companies came to the area too including Zenith (TV and electronics), and Ecco (cooking ware). Builders inundated the area to fill the housing needs of area workers. Bungalows, Cape Cods, and two-flats offered a range of housing type choices. Especially popular was the subdivided residential neighborhood on the eastern border named Belmont Park. 1940s through the present dayDuring the postwar years, until the 1990s, mostly descendants of Europeans, mostly already assimilated second, third and fourth generation German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Polish, and Scandinavians had the populated the area. The area was heavily dominated by both Catholic and Lutheran churches and schools. In the 1920s a retail shopping district began to develop along Belmont Avenue, known as Belmont Central. It eventually drew in retailers that once included Goldblatt's Department Store, Woolworth's, Walgreen's, Ben Franklin, SS Kreske's — later becoming K-mart in the Brickyard mall, JC Penney's — also moving to the Brickyard Mall, IHOP restaurant, and Will Rodgers movie theatre. Children's playgrounds we're built. Riss Park began originally as a golf course, later becoming a park designed by the famed national park designer Jan Jenssen. The Chicago Transit Authority in the 1940s extended its Belmont Street electric bus service beyond Central, transporting new patrons into the shopping district. Gas buses arrived in the 1970s. A 1981 addition of a nearby parking garage continued to contribute to business prosperity but the area had seen it's days since the opening of the Brickyard Mall. In 1979, the opening of the Brickyard Shopping Mall on the former site of the Carey Brickyard property at Narragansett and Diversey added new vitality to the community, drawing city and suburban shoppers away from Belmont Central shopping district, Six Corners, suburbs and downtown. The original Brickyard Mall was an enclosed three level building but was demolished in the late 1990s to pave way for big box stores including Target and Lowe's, along with the strip mall making it more automobile friendly rather than pedestrian friendly. Jewel Osco was originally in the location of Target in the old mall floor plan that once included Montgomery Ward and JC Penny's department stores and K-mart. During the postwar years, until the 1990s, descendants of Europeans, mostly already assimilated second, third and fourth generation German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Polish, and Scandinavians had the populated the area. The area was heavily dominated by both Catholic and Lutheran churches and schools. Until the early 1980s, Central Soya and its silos were located south of Grand Ave on Laramie; the US military had a Cold War radar installment just east of the current site of Home Depot where Grand Ave. meets Fullerton Ave., Glidden paint was located just south of the train station on the 1800 block of North LeClaire Ave until the early 1980s. Cragin Department Store, located on the 4900 block of West Armitage, was a family owned clothing and shoe store until the 1980s. Hawthorn Melody Dairy was located at Grand and Laramie. Reda's Liquors and Lizzi's House of Pizza were also located in the area. Dominick's grocery store was located on Central Ave. at Altgeld St. before the company was sold off and closed down. Tony's grocery store now anchors this location. Belmont Cragin's overall population grew by more than 6 percent in the 1980s and 37 percent in the 1990s. The Hispanic population grew from 3,072 in 1980 to 16,846 in 1990. By the 2000 census the area was 65 percent Hispanic, joining the Polish immigrants and businesses who had come to the area earlier. A number of young middle-class professionals joined blue-collar laborers in the area. Residents formed an active coalition called the Northwest Neighborhood Federation to address increases in crime, gangs, and school overpopulation. By 1995, Hall Printing and other plants had closed their doors. The area experienced a drop in manufacturing employment and a decline in retail activity during the 1980s. Concerns over unemployment and an increasing poverty level have led residents to organize a home reinvestment campaign and to study ways of reviving the commercial climate in the area. EducationChicago Public Schools operates district public schools.[2]Elementary and middle schools serving Belmont Cragin include Barry, Falconer, Locke, Lyon, Camras, Schubert,[3] Burbank, Prieto, Hanson Park, Lloyd, and Northwest Middle.[4] The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago operates many parish churches, grade schools and St. Patrick's high school within the district. Steinmetz High School and Foreman High School serve sections of Belmont Cragin.[5]The Chicago Public Library Portage-Cragin Branch serves Belmont Cragin. It first opened in a storefront in 1927, with a permanent library opening on November 1, 1969.[6] The West Belmont Branch Chicago Public Library serves the western division of Belmont Central at 3104 N. Narragansett Ave. References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Community Data Snapshot - Belmont Cragin|url=http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/126764/Belmont+Cragin.pdf|website=cmap.illinois.gov|publisher=MetroPulse|accessdate=November 27, 2017}} 2. ^"[https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/doit/general/GIS/Chicago_Maps/Community_Areas/CA_BELMONT_CRAGIN.pdf BELMONT CRAGIN]" (Map). City of Chicago. Retrieved on November 19, 2016. 3. ^"[https://web.archive.org/web/20130622054252/http://www.cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/Zone%20maps/Elem_North.pdf Elem North]". Chicago Public Schools. 2013. Retrieved on September 30, 2016. 4. ^"Near North/West/Central Elementary Schools" ([https://www.webcitation.org/6Ylxmjvg3?url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130517085518/http://www.cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/Zone%20maps/Elem_Near_North_West_Central.pdf Archive]). Chicago Public Schools. May 17, 2013. Retrieved on May 25, 2015. 5. ^"[https://web.archive.org/web/20130622055556/http://www.cps.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/Zone%20maps/HS_North_Near_North.pdf HS North/Near North]". Chicago Public Schools. 2013. Retrieved on September 30, 2016. 6. ^"About Portage-Cragin Branch." Chicago Public Library. Retrieved on November 18, 2016. External links
| Center = Belmont Cragin, Chicago | North = Portage Park, Chicago | Northeast = Irving Park, Chicago | East = Hermosa, Chicago | Southeast = Humboldt Park, Chicago | South = Austin, Chicago | West = Montclare, Chicago | Northwest = Dunning, Chicago }} 3 : Community areas of Chicago|North Side, Chicago|Populated places established in 1835 |
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