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	Woodlawn
		Woodlawn Park's first residents were Dutch farmers who arrived in the 1850s.
		Woodlawn's farmers sent their produce to merchants in nearby Chicago on the Illinois Central Railroad, which opened a station on Junction Avenue (63rd Street) in 1862.
		West Woodlawn, a trapezoidal subdivision in the southwest part of the neighborhood, attracted middle-class African Americans with the means to buy homes outside the nearby Black Belt.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1378.html (723 words)

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		Recall that at the time in Chicago restrictions on Saloons were considered a means to discourage immigrant populations from settling or congregating in certain areas in addition to being a staple of the temperance movement.
		Another recapitulated framing theme in the history of Woodlawn is the role of the "L" train on the growth and development of the community.
		In December of 1994 an Empowerment Zone was established for the portion of Woodlawn that lies west of Dorchester and north of 63rd Street.
	www2.uic.edu /~tlentn1/woodlawn/profile.htm (2315 words)

	Woodlawn \| Best Chicago Neighborhoods
		Woodlawn is south of Hyde Park, delineated by 60th Street, Midway Plaisance Park, 67th Street, Cottage Grove, Stoney Island Avenue, and Jackson Park.
		Woodlawn’s next task is improving schools and education in the area and raising test scores and improving students’ performance.
		Woodlawn is poised to return itself to its former level of prosperity.
	www.bestchicagoneighborhoods.com /woodlawn (227 words)

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		Geographer Chauncy Harris often argued that Chicago in the first half of the 20th century was the most studied city in the world.
		It is arguable that, at the moment of their creation, the Chicago School maps made up the most wide-ranging cartographic portrait of an urban area that had ever been compiled.
		[Chicago : University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology?, 193-?].
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/maps/chisoc (1721 words)

	Woodlawn, University partners in education through Charter School
		As the teachers and 160 students of the newly opened Woodlawn High School marched into the auditorium of this University-operated charter school Tuesday, Sept. 26, an audience of University leaders, Woodlawn residents and other community members was on hand to applaud the group.
		For the dedication of the third campus of the University of Chicago Charter School and its first charter high school, President Zimmer spoke at the event with remarks of praise for the launch of the new school: “Nothing we do as a society is more important than educating our children.
		Open to students throughout the city, the school is intended to serve Woodlawn in particular; 43 percent of the campus’ students reside in the school’s attendance zone.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /061005/woodlawn.shtml (761 words)

	Woodlawn, Chicago \| A fresh look at neighborhood news and housing
		My understanding is that he is the former director of the New Communities Project and was with the Chicago Police Department for 25+ years.
		Woodlawn is sorely lacking in foodservice options, so having a coffee house in our neighborhood will be a treat.
		I see the students walking through Woodlawn to their parked cars parked all the time – it'd be nice if they wanted to live here instead of just parking their cars here.
	yochicago.com /neighborhoods/woodlawn (2255 words)

	Pratt Center: The Woodlawn Organization (TWO), Chicago, IL
		Because they were systematically excluded from Chicago's firmly entrenched political machine, African Americans found it very difficult to use existing political channels to demand accountability from their local elected officials.
		Throughout the early 1960s, TWO mobilized Woodlawn's residents to pressure merchants, landlords, city bureaucrats and others who were responsible for the neighborhood's blighted conditions to respond to their demands for change.
		Because it had established itself as the legitimate voice of the residents of Woodlawn, and had the power of people to back it, TWO became recognized as a major political force in Chicago.
	www.prattcenter.net /cdc-two.php (2107 words)

	Chicago Park District: Woodlawn Playlot Park
		In 1950, the City of Chicago purchased land at 74th Street and South Woodlawn Avenue in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood for park development.
		Woodlawn Avenue takes its name from Chicago's Woodlawn community, developed by the South Side Realty Association and annexed to Chicago in 1889.
		Woodlawn experienced dramatic growth in anticipation of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in nearby Jackson Park.
	www.chicagoparkdistrict.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/D91535DB-AA14-4662-9BE1-212B7A4D7B1B.cfm (157 words)

	Schools
		The focus of the GEAR UP program is to get middle and high school kids and their parents ready for college.
		GEAR UP programs are located all across the country with 9 clusters in Chicago - consisting of middle schools and high schools.
		Roosevelt University is partner to the Woodlawn neighborhood schools.
	www.gearupchicago.org /Networks/NEWoodlawn.html (63 words)

	History
		The Woodlawn Community School, one of a number of schools authorized by the Chicago Public Schools System in 1996, was founded by the
		These WDA board members believed that if their efforts were successful, the children, as they grew would in turn begin to develop a strong sense of community, and would contribute to the growth and improvement of the quality of life not only in Woodlawn but thoughout the city of Chicago.
		A steering committee of interested members was formed and community meetings were held where parents and others were intvited to talk about their concerns about education and encouraged to envision the kind of school they would like for their children.
	cuip.uchicago.edu /schools/woodlawn/10_history.html (378 words)

	Woodlawn, Chicago \| The Woodlawn Simmer
		Alison suggests that Woodlawn might be the next hot spot for appreciation.
		University of Chicago is opening a Woodlawn Charter High School.
		Woodlawn was home to Chicago’s first street gang, the Blackstone Rangers.
	yochicago.com /neighborhoods/woodlawn/neighborhood-journals/the-woodlawn-simmer_9 (567 words)

	Woodlawn Real Estate: condos, lofts, homes for sale in Chicago
		Though Woodlawn was once the site of Chicago's most prolific gang (the Black P Stone Rangers), the Southside neighborhood has been the site of city-sponsored revitalization projects aimed at improving infrastructure, schools, education and addressing the lack economic growth.
		Located to the south of Hyde Park, Woodlawn is bounded by 60th Street, Midway Plaisance Park, 67th Street, Cottage Grove, Stoney Island Avenue and Jackson Park.
		By reducing illegal activity and providing a better educational environment, Woodlawn is poising themselves to return their neighborhood to the level of prosperity it once enjoyed.
	www.dreamtown.com /neighborhoods/woodlawn.html (245 words)

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	Jazz Age Chicago--Woodlawn
		Although Woodlawn first boomed during the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, it was not until the 1920s that the neighborhood around 63rd and Cottage Grove reached residential and commercial maturity.
		Woodlawn proved an appealing retail and amusement district in large part due to its convenient transportation connections and close proximity to dense concentrations of affordable housing in lakeside apartment buildings.
		During the 1920s, as African-Americans looked to move out of the overcrowded slums to the north, Woodlawn residents, in an attempt to keep their neighborhood all-white, established restrictive covenants and engaged in rogue violence against those seeking to move in.
	chicago.urban-history.org /dist/woodlawn/woodlawn.shtml (221 words)

	Woodlawn site approved for U of C charter school (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Woodlawn High School campus will be located in the Wadsworth facility at 6420 South University Avenue.
		The approval of the Wadsworth facility solidifies the expansion and continuation of the initiative in the Woodlawn community.
		Priority was given to residents of the Woodlawn community, siblings of students currently enrolled in the other two U of C charter school campuses, and students enrolled in eighth grade at the North Kenwood/Oakland Charter School, which is another University charter school campus.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /news/articles/2006/04/04/woodlawn_site_approv.php (761 words)

	Organizations seek to revitalize Woodlawn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As Woodlawn, the community to the immediate south of the University, becomes more economically and racially contiguous with Hyde Park, residents there and members of the University community are struggling to make sense of the new geographic reality.
		Since moving to Woodlawn, Nimocks has become the director of the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) and chairman of the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation (WPIC), an organization dedicated to community improvement that is the lead agency behind the Woodlawn New Communities Program (NCP).
		Woodlawn NCP is backed by three organizations: WPIC, the University of Chicago, and The Woodlawn Organization (TWO).
	maroon.uchicago.edu /news/articles/2005/11/15/organizations_seek_t.php (1341 words)

	Apartment Ratings \| Woodlawn House Ratings and Reviews
		From -Anonymous-: Iand#39;ve been living at Woodlawn House for 1 year and a half and they have made such an incredible improvement.They just fixed the laundry room and every time I have a maintenance request their In my apartmet in minutes.I coulnand#39;t ask for a better management company.
		From -Anonymous-: Iand#39;m very dissatisfied with this rental company. There are definitely rodents in the buildingand#44; even if you keep your apartment clean. There is new management now but I am suffering from the poor management priorand#44; and the new management has done nothing to make up for that.
		They been renovating for the past several months with new carpet in the hallways the building is real nice I can catch the bus outside the door.
	www.apartmentratings.com /rss/IL-Chicago-Woodlawn-House.rss (245 words)

	Robie House : FREE with the Go Chicago Card
		Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House near the University of Chicago is the most famous of example of his Prairie School design, which was inspired by the sweeping horizons of the Midwest.
		The Robie House is on the corner of 58th Street and Woodlawn.
		The Robie House is at the corner of Woodlawn Avenue and 58th Street.
	www.gochicagocard.com /attractions/Robie-House.html (315 words)

	Robie House
		Robie soon met Lora Hieronymus at a University of Chicago dance, and the couple was married in 1902.
		He purchased a narrow lot at the corner of 58th Street and Woodlawn, a site that was likely influenced by Lora, who had graduated from the University in 1900 and was still interested in campus life.
		The Robie House served as a private residence until 1926, when it was sold with all of its furnishings to the Chicago Theological Seminary, which used it as a dormitory.
	ah.phpwebhosting.com /a/OUTofBFLO/chi/robie/index.html (575 words)

	Mt. Carmel hangs tough in Woodlawn Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		Father Jordan got on the PA system one day and announced that school would be letting out 15 minutes early because of the "incident" the night before at 64th Street and Stony Island.
		In Woodlawn, Mount Carmel is known as "The Miracle on 64th Street." They've been here for 102 years, educating young men in a community that has changed more times than David Bowie.
		The Carmelite presence in Woodlawn is the anchor of the neighborhood.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_200206/ai_n12458814 (736 words)

	Alinsky/TWO: 1960s Organizing in an African-American Community
		Randy asks whether Alinsky's failure to achieve his goal of gradual racial integration in a white working class Chicago neighborhood in the early 1960s was due to an absence of theory, a failure to identify the structural forces that made segregation so appealing to the working classes.
		They made their way through the middle class sections of Woodlawn that already contained block clubs, and through the East Woodlawn area, which was considered a disorganized disaster (von Hoffman: "Anyone who claims to have anything remotely resembling a representative organization in East Woodlawn is either a liar or a fool.
		Fish was (and is) a resident of Chicago's Hyde Park (directly north of Woodlawn), and at the time was a seminary student (BLACK POWER/WHITE CONTROL is a published version of his dissertation).
	comm-org.wisc.edu /papers96/alinsky/woodlawn.html (2631 words)

	Woodlawn, Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clayton and Drake described the anxieties and clashes that took place at the edge of the ghetto in Black Metropolis, and Lorraine Hansberry whose family was one of the first to move in, based Raisin in the Sun on her parents' experience.
		Between 60th and 61st Streets (with Dorchester Street to the east and Cottage Grove Avenue to the west) are several of the University's South Campus buildings including: University of Chicago Press.
		The Black P. Stone Nation (AKA the Moes), whose territory is in between the Stone streets (i.e., Blackstone and Stoney Island), are still a very strong force in the Woodlawn Community and often at war with the Gangsta Disciples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodlawn,_Chicago (2105 words)

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	Razing 'L' Would Hurt Woodlawn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The City of Chicago and the Chicago Transit Authority have a unique plan.
		The 16 blocks of Woodlawn bordered by 61st and 67th Streets and Dorchester and Woodlawn Avenues lost 72 percent of their housing units and more than 83 percent of their population between 1960 and 1990.
		However, disinvestment in this area and throughout Woodlawn was not caused by the "L" and the "L" has not prolonged it.
	www.chicago-l.org /articles/woodlawn2.html (494 words)

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		Turn right (north) onto Woodlawn Avenue and continue past the stop sign at 59th street.
		Once past downtown Chicago, exit to I-55 north and follow the signs to Lake Shore Drive south.
		Valet parking is available at the main entrance of the Hyde Park Center, at the corner of 58th and Woodlawn.
	chicagogsb.edu /pricetheory/location.aspx (143 words)

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