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About Oak Park
Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of
Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Oak Park has easy access to
downtown Chicago (Chicago Loop) thanks to public transport such as the
Chicago "L", CTA buses and Metra commuter rail. From the 2000 census, the
area was a total population of the 52524th 2003 Census estimate showed that
the population had dipped to the 50824th
History
In 1837, Joseph Kettlestrings purchased 172 acres of land just west of
Chicago. By 1850, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad is built in as far
as Elgin, Illinois, and through the Oak Park [2]. The population of Oak Park
boomed during the 1870s with the migration of residents is a suburb of
Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire, and 1871. The village of Oak Park was
formally established in 1902, after the referendum.
Oak Park has previously been a ban on alcohol. Since its incorporation, is
not permitted to sell alcohol to their village boundaries. This law was
relaxed in 1973, when the restaurants and hotels are permitted to use
alcohol. Act more open in 2002, when the choice of grocery stores were given
permission to sell packaged liquor.
Philander Barclay was a historian, Oak Park, a bicycle repairman, and one of
the first amateur photographers. He lived in Oak Park during the late 19th
and early 20th century, certainly one of the most exciting village Eras. The
young man was the quiet and unlikely to contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright,
Ernest Hemingway, Doris Humphrey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, businessman Richard
Sears and many others. His parents were the local drug store and at the
beginning of early life, Philander Rode his bicycle across the region taking
photographs of places and people. By the time of his death in 1940, he had
accumulated a priceless collection of amazing and more than 1000 photos,
which are now curated by the Oak Park and River Forest Historical Society.
The option is available for viewing online.
Throughout the past few years, rising taxes have forced hundreds of Oak
Parkers to leave, but these losses are also the arrival of a higher-income
families around the country and the rehabilitation of many Village
properties. Currently, expensive homes, peaceful parks and excellent school
system characterize Oak Park. But such benefits come on the other hand, the
rising vacancy rates and business taxes. On the other hand, Oak Park is
noted as one of the most beautiful suburbs of Chicago and an exceptional
place to raise children.
At present, the village of Oak Park is the nation has found itself divided,
the question of development and rehabilitation of downtown Oak Park will
start. Many Oak Parkers are afraid of losing what they feel, are historic
buildings, many older buildings have been replaced by high-priced Condos and
modern shops. The Marion Street Mall off of Lake Street, for example, has
seen rising vacancies and, therefore, to increase the business, shopping can
be opened to increase the visibility of traffic and traffic flow throughout
the center of the region. This development will take off once in a peaceful
tree filled area of downtown Oak Park, that, unfortunately, have never been
able to attract businesses and the amount of people never expected the
village, where it was built in late 70s. The village is to bring the
sculptures, trees, a fountain and brick arches, with the new road and the
blue stone sidewalks to increase the street appeal. This decision has caused
much debate, as many residents of the village do not want to see the Mall
will be lost, while many others look forward to new business, the viability
of these, I hope that this amendment is to create.
Oak Park is a popular tourist destination in the Chicago area over the past
few decades, as many come to view the beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright
buildings, which are found throughout the village. In fact, the largest
collection of Wright-designed properties in Oak Park is the world. Tourists
also enjoy the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home and the home,
as well as the Ernest Hemingway museum, but others come to see three homes
in Oak Park Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. In fact, throughout the
historic home in the Village.
Oak Park has become famous in the Chicago area and throughout Illinois to a
rather impressive Oak Park River Forest High School, [3], which is also the
public education school in the bordering village of River Forest. The school
is known for its large number of successful alumni, honored teachers, and
advanced educational programs.
Geography
Oak Park is located just west of Chicago. The boundary of two municipalities
is Austin Boulevard on the east side of Oak Park and North Avenue in the
North of the village. Oak Park also borders Cicero along the southern
border, Roosevelt Road, from Austin to Lombard, and Berwyn from Lombard to
Harlem. Harlem is also the western border, where the South and Roosevelt
Blvd, Forest Park and bounded on North Blvd and North Ave to the west
bounded by Forest River.
The entire village of Oak Park is located shore of ancient Lake Chicago,
which covered most of the city of Chicago the last Ice Age and is today
called Lake Michigan. Ridgeland Avenue in East Oak Park denotes the
shoreline, the lake, and was one of the real ridge. One of the four North
American continental divide passes through Oak Park. This gap, which is
slightly rising, then the north-south through the village, separates the St.
Lawrence River watershed from the Mississippi River watershed, and plaque is
characterized by the Lake Street at Forest Avenue.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the village is the total area of 12.2
km (4.7 mi). None is covered by water.
Transportation
Oak Park is accessible to both Chicago Chicago Transit Authority Green and
Blue line trains as well as Metra UP West Line trains at Oak Park station.
Service to Oak Park and other neighborhoods are also shown at a suburban bus
system. It is also one of more than 20 neighborhoods served I-GO Cars.
The Eisenhower Expressway - formerly the Congress Expressway - which is the
primary highway between Chicago and Oak Park. Oak Park has its own street
numbering system, which is similar to but different from, the Chicago
system.
Oak Park has a rich tradition of cycling. Augusta Boulevard through the
village and is part of the Grand Illinois Trail and the trailhead for the
Illinois Prairie Path is less than one mile from Oak Park. It is considered
one of the most progressive bicycle-friendly communities in the Chicago
area, and there are a number of the active cycle clubs and groups. Proximity
to the historic trails and tree-lined streets of the community attract
cyclists throughout the region, many of whom arrive in the Chicago region's
extensive public transport system. Oak Park is also a small pedicab
business, owned and operated by a local who provides guided tours and a taxi
service with his bicycle pedicabs or rickshaws. It is also free of charge
transport which transports riders to the majority of the tourist attractions
in the village.
Neighborhoods
Although located in a small geographical area, the village of Oak Park is
one of a number of different neighborhoods. Some areas of North Oak Park, a
common definition, which is north of Lake Street, is traditionally the
richest region of the community, and they include, for example, the historic
Frank Lloyd Wright District. Various apartment has been found in North Oak
Park, especially along the fruit lined Chicago Avenue and North Oak Park
Avenue. The area between Lake Street and Madison Street, or the middle part
of Oak Park, is home to various architectural styles and incomes, which in
the 19th Apartment is located next to the century Victorian homes, smaller,
after the Second World War 2 era. In South Oak Park, south of Madison
Street, and includes a home for families with higher income compared to an
average of less expensive than most homes in the north. This is to
compensate for the homes of the Seward Gunderson Historic District, which
includes some of the first homes in the area since 1900. Oak Park as a whole
can be characterized as both the medium and the upper upper class.
In addition, there is a sharp gap between affordable housing and some very
expensive housing in North Oak Park Avenue in Ridgeland. To the west of
Ridgeland Avenue in north Oak Park properties are almost exclusively of
professionals. On the contrary, the shell in north east of Ridgeland Avenue
in Oak Park mainly working families with affordable Bungalows purchased.
Although there are several areas of business in Oak Park, Harrison Street,
such as along I-290 Expressway and Chicago Avenue at Harlem, Downtown Oak
Park is the main business district, bounded on the west by Harlem Avenue,
the east and Oak Park Avenue / Euclid Avenue, south of South Boulevard /
Pleasant Street, and North Ontario Street. However, due to high taxes,
traffic issues, etc., are increasingly vacancy rate of downtown Oak Park.
Some of the independent, "mom-and-pop" stores have moved out, making room
for well-known chain stores such as Starbucks and Cold Stone Dairy. It has
been much heated debate and discussion of the village, causing vacancies and
the solution to ending this problem.