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In article <wk3dfzoahh.fsf@yahoo.com>,
  Jack Vinson <JackVinson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How about this URL: http://www.chgocitytours.com/NMap.htm.  It
doesn't let
> you search, but it is a decent map of the 'hoods of the city.

Here's the thing: The neighborhoods that are listed there (and that get
used in some other stuff as well, e.g., the chi.yahoo.com neighborhood
listing and possibly also digitalcity chicago etc.) are "official"
neighborhoods which may or may not compare to actual neighborhood names
in use. For example, you will not find on that map Old Town, Printer's
Row, Little Italy, Pilsen (aka Little Village aka Villita), Greektown,
etc. etc.

I saw a couple years back at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (or
something like that) store on Michigan Avenue a neighborhood map that
did actually list neighborhoods in a format that corresponded with the
neighborhood names in use (and I think even eschewed the
execrable "Wrigleyville" appelation).

The neighborhoods on that map, incidentally are from the old U of C
sociological division of the city which predates even the expressway
system so that you get neighborhoods which appear to be unified blocks
of land but, because of the large psychich divide induced by the
freeway have quite distinctive characters.

And to let me have some single-message topic drift along these lines,
my parents live in Stickney near 39th Street. I was quite surprised
once when I actually compared distances to discover that Ford City was
closer to their home than was Oak Park (by driving distance, not just
as the crow flies). Between the Stevenson, the canal and the big swatch
of industrial land that all lie between the two areas (not to mention
lack of directly connecting public transport), Ford City seemed much
farther away.

-vp

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