Community Cultural Analysis

of Uptown/Andersonville

Katy A. Hite

Uptown Demographics

Total Households: 30,363 African American: 5,247 Asian: 3,301 Hispanic: 4,093 Caucasian: 16,562 Mix/Other: 1,160

Uptown Theatres

Uptown Theatre Riviera Theatre Aragon Ballroom

Uptown Nightlife The Green Mill Lounge

The Annoyance Theatre

Bars & Restaurants

Uptown:Happy New Year!

Uptown:Happy New Year!

South East Asia Center

Asian Human Services

Chinese Mutual Aid

Uptown

Essanay Studios

Notable Architecture

Gentrification

Uptown Reads!

Bezazian Library: A (Small) Melting Pot Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese. Russian, Hindi, Urdu and Tigrinya

Shake, Rattle & Read

Borders

Uptown Schools

Walt Disney Magnet School

Midwest College of Oriental Medicine

Peoples Music School

St. Augustine College

The Day School

Truman College

AndersonvilleDemographics

Total Households: 28,522 African American: 2,150 Asian: 3,841 Hispanic: 3,677 Caucasian: 13,546 Mix/Other: 5,308

Andersonville

Chicago Chamber Choir

Chicago Tap Theatre

Joel Hall Dancers & Center

Andersonville

The Neo-Futurarium

Women and Children First

Las Manos

estudiotres

Andersonville

Chicago Filmmakers Reeling: International Gay & Lesbian International Film

Festival Swedish American Museum

Children’s Museum of Immigration

Edgewater Historical Society

AndersonvilleSchools

Amundsen High School - 5110 N. Damen Families Together Nursery School - 1500 W. Elmdale Lake Shore Schools - 5611 N. Clark Northside Catholic Academy, Primary School Campus - 6216 N. Glenwood Northside Catholic Academy, Middle School Campus - 5525 N. Magnolia Northside YWCA Child Development Center - 5244 N. Lakewood Passages Charter School - 1643 W. Bryn Mawr Peirce School - 1423 W. Bryn Mawr Senn High School - 5900 N. Glenwood St. Gregory the Great High School - 1677 W. Bryn Mawr Trumbull Elementary School - 5200 N. Ashland, (773) 534-2430

Uptown/AndersonvilleReligious Associations

Augdas Achim North Shore - 5029 N. Kenmore, (773) 561-0435 Cambodian Buddhist Temple - Ebenezer Lutheran Church - 1650 W. Foster, (773) 561-8496 Edgewater Baptist Church - 1401 W. Hollywood, (773) 784-3040 First Free Evangelical Church - 5255 N. Ashland, (773) 561-4175 Good Shepard Church, MCC - 1700 W. Farragut, (773) 275-7776 Iglesia del Pacto - 5610 N. Glenwood, (773) 878-1125 Ismaili Center of Chicago - 6259 N. Broadway, (773) 262-1616 North Sheridan Hebrew Congregation - 6301 N. Sheridan, (773) 262-0330 North Shore Baptist Church - 5244 N. Lakewood, (773) 728-4200

Masses in Spanish, Japanese and English

Philadelphia Church - 5445 N. Clark, (773) 728-5106 St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Church - 5649 N. Sheridan, (773) 334-4515 St. Anthony of Padua/Holy Cross Friary - 1636 W. Rascher, (773) 769-0324 St. Gregory's Roman Catholic Church - 1634 W. Gregory, (773) 561-3546 St. Ita's Church - 1220 W. Catalpa, (773) 561-5343 Summerdale Church - 1700 W. Farragut, (773) 561-5755 Unity Lutheran Church - 5409 N. Magnolia, (773) 878-4747

Uptown/AndersonvilleCCA: Thanks and

Credits Uptown Chamber of Commerce Uptown Chicago Commission Uptown Business Partners South East Asian Center Andersonville Chamber of Commerce US Census Beaureau Mark Kaplan ~ Branch Manager, Bezazian Library Images from ~ Flickr, Uptown Business Partners,

Andersonville Chamber, Organization Web sites, and personal collection.