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Chicago Foreclosures
The process of foreclosures varies from the state to state can be rapid or lengthy. To avoid foreclosures other options such as refinancing, a short sale, alternate financing, temporary arrangements with the lender, or even bankruptcy may present to homeowners. There are websites which can help or can connect individual borrowers to lenders.
As of last 3 years the city had 10,294 foreclosures according to the one of
the training center in Chicago. Doubled numbers of foreclosures in Chicago
was 36% higher compared with the last 4 years.
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About Wicker Park
Wicker Park neighborhood northwest of the Chicago loop, near Bucktown. Charles and Joel Wicker purchased 80 acres of land along Milwaukee Avenue in 1870 and mixed in with the subdivision, lot sizes surrounding the four-acre park. The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 and spurred the first wave of development, the homeless Chicagoans looked to build new houses. Wicker Park proved to be particularly popular with German and Swedish merchants, who have built a large apartment choices along the neighborhood's streets - and in particular Hoyne and Pierce, just southwest of the North & Damen (then Robey). At the end of the 19th century, was known as "the ethnic Gold Coast" and Hoyne known as the "Beer Baron Row," as many of Chicago's wealthiest brewers built apartment there. If the 1890s and 1900, immigration from Poland and the completion of the capital of the West Side Elevated Lines greatly increased the population density of West Town, especially in areas east of Wicker Park, corner of Division, Milwaukee, and Ashland keep the moniker "Polish Triangle" to this day, and the exiled government of Poland met Wicker Park during World War I.
After World War II, many Poles moved to newer, less crowded housing further northwest, and Wicker Park became more ethnically diverse with the influx of Puerto Rican immigrants. Some urban renewal projects were carried out in order to combat "urban blight" in some parts of the neighborhood, but the negative continued rapid clip. Chicago and Wicker Park reached a nadir in 1970 is ten years, when the city lost 11% of its overall population, at the time of the 1970s hundreds of insurance arsons reported in Wicker Park, and many small factories in the area (many of woodworking) closed or moved. Efforts to stabilize the community in the development of workshops for new affordable housing construction in 1980 and coincided with the arrival of artists attracted by the neighborhood has easy access to the Loop, cheap loft space of the abandoned factories, and distinctly urban feel.
Today the neighborhood is best known for the lively hipster artists and musicians, but gentrification has recently brought some of the yuppie population in the territory.
Located in the boundaries of generally accepted to be Ashland to the east (at 1600 W), the above-grade Bloomingdale Line to the north (at 1800 N), Division to the south (at 1200 N), and California to the west (at 2800 W). These boundaries are not hard and fast and may change slightly over time. Both the East Village and Ukrainian Village is the south, Humboldt Park and Bucktown is the north west.
Notable residents include Nelson Algren, who has lived in the third floor of 1958 W. Evergreen Ave between 1959-1975. Much of the Wicker Park was designated as a Chicago Landmark District in 1991.