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Bookmark or Share- West Garfield Park - Encyclopedia of ChicagoWest Garfield Park. Community Area 26, 5 miles W of the Loop. Before 1873, most people who saw the farms scattered on the square mile west of the future Garfield Park were on their way somewhere else. The Barry Point Road (Fifth Avenue) headed southwest to Lyons.
- West Garfield Park, past and present - WBEZ ChicagoWest Garfield Park, past and present. The colorful story of a West Side community that’s “only five miles from the Loop.” By John R. Schmidt. Jun 17, 2013, 3:00am PST. In 1869 the West Side...
- It’s time to write a new story for West Garfield Park - Chicago Sun-TimesTwo miles of Madison Street between East and West Garfield Park went up in flames within hours of King’s murder, claiming at least 100 commercial and residential buildings and leaving scores of vacant lots that are still there today.
- ‘Chicago Tonight’ in Your Neighborhood: West Garfield ParkSix miles west of the Loop sits West Garfield Park, which is separated from its eastern counterpart by the Garfield Park Conservatory. It’s a community, historically disinvested, facing food insecurity, poverty, violence — and now a pandemic and fallout from looting during the summer’s civil unrest.
- What it's like to live in Chicago's most violent neighborhood, West ...The square-mile neighborhood, just west of one of the largest botanical conservatories in the country, has seen nearly 1,000 shootings over the last five years — roughly one every other day. The population of West Garfield Park has fallen steadily since the 1950s, dwindling to 17,000 people today.
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