Chicago/Rogers Park

Rogers P northern border Chicago — -y inheritor uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, beauty Chicago bricks. There y better place experience casual riches y offer, several miles parks beaches, quiet blocks breathtaking apartments homes.

T article includes Edgewater, reasonable counterbalance neighbor (fewer calamities, terrific ), W Ridge, several ethnic communities, including nearly great Indian restaurants stores.

W Philip Rogers arrived Chicago first 1834, immediately began making plans leave. There everywhere, narrow streets choked chaotic, winters brutal. B stuck Chicago because waterways N Y frozen, Rogers winter; y spring, pretty g oxen, headed north could, p limits y fringe settlements, swampland where Indian villages still resident — there began Rogers P.

T nature Rogers P calamity beauty equality impulse toward . I y, y neighborhood's y events understood: secession W Ridge (sometimes called W Rogers P) whether incorporate village (which y anyway); 1894 "Home-M Transfer War," which Rogers P residents stuck railroad tycoon Charles Yerkes y refusing py extra northern extension streetcar line, tried p transfers they'd conductors; "Cabbage H W" 1896, which Rogers P politician g unsophisticated W Ridge farmers unflattering nickname, y proved wrong y putting cabbages poles marching house.

W regular floods wild, swampy beaches east, annexation Chicago sewage services proved strong temptation. A y surged north, building followed, Rogers P blessed gorgeous stock residential commercial buildings; W Ridge wound p g blocks lovely, modest Prairie-style bungalows. Oy famous still (Frank Lloyd Wright's E B House), routine beauty architecture Rogers P W Ridge still incredible.

T diversity, , unrivaled notoriously segregated y. Rogers P always beautiful place Chicago where basically anyone could afford — silent Irish generations still fighting Cabbage H W their sleep, immigrants newly arrived Serbia, Jamaica, Sudan. F visitor, special mention g Indian community Devon Avenue. Between roughly 2200 W 2700 W Devon, among thriving import stores specialize saris, spices, latest Bollywood dreams, there number amazing Indian Pakistani restaurants almost certainly spoil y stuff (assuming "back home" anywhere Indian subcontinent). T y y g Tuesday, y businesses restaurants closed.

Edgewater, other hand, remarkably -. I originally demarcated p Uptown community area, economic decline, Edgewater residents swiftly seceded established their neighborhood. Today, segues neatly Andersonville south, gy cultural institutions several restaurants, coffee shops .