Lincoln Park
Located west from the
lakefront to Halsted Street and north from North Avenue to Diversey Parkway and named for
the city's largest park, Lincoln Park has a lot to offer.
The park itself boasts an excellent zoo (the oldest in the country, and still free to the
public), botanical conservatory, and four of the city's beaches. Besides seemingly
countless bars frequented by young, upwardly-mobile professionals and DePaul University
students, Lincoln Park provides trendy boutiques, coffee shops, many restaurants, and SUV
dealerships.
The Wrightwood Neighbors Conservation Association and the Sheffield Neighborhood
Association are two of the seven neighborhood groups affiliated with the Lincoln Park
Conservation Association. The LPCA led an eight-year campaign for a new Lincoln Park
Branch Library, which recently opened.
Lincoln Park is also home to the popular concert venue “Park West,” as well as
the world-famous Steppenwolf Theatre. Like Old Town, Lincoln Park was originally settled
in the 1850's by German immigrants coming to this country seeking a better way of life,
and is one of Chicago's oldest communities. Today, it is considered the city’s
shining star of the lakefront neighborhoods (especially by its inhabitants) and is
undeniably the current yuppie Mecca of Chicago.
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