ROSCOE VILLAGE

JORDAN PHILLIPS

COLLEEN MURRAY

DYLAN ZERNICH

HISTORY• Land originally bought to

build the “World’s largest amusement park” which opened in 1903

• Restaurants and bars were built to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of visitors

(Hadley)

HISTORY• 1977 – crime became a problem

with a series of garage fires

• A group was formed to improve the safety of the community, it was successful

• The neighborhood was restored (Hadley)

FACTS

Things to do…o Parko Restaurantso Beat Kitcheno Clothing storeso Barso More Bars

LOCATION OF ROSCOE VILLAGE • The neighborhood boundaries are Addison Street to the north,

Ravenswood Avenue to the east, Belmont Avenue

to the south, and the Chicago River to the west• The streets had a lot of trees growing along it• There were a lot of playgrounds on every other block• The houses were cute too! • How to get there?? Take the Red Line to the Belmont

stop and take the bus to the intersection Belmont

and Leavitt

DEMOGRAPHICS• Overall, Roscoe Village takes up .925 square miles• The total population is 16,244 people*• The racial diversity is 56% white, 26% Hispanic, 11.4% African

American, 4% Asian, 2% mixed and .6% other*• 10.4% of the people are attending college at this time*• Median income is $92,000*• The percent below the poverty line is 8.7% (all from the US

Census, website: city-data.com) * As of 2011