{"id":19987,"date":"2022-05-06T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/?p=19987"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:07:40","slug":"a-brief-history-of-chicagos-avondale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/a-brief-history-of-chicagos-avondale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Chicago’s Avondale"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2017, Avondale was named <\/span>one of the hottest neighborhoods in the US<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s been described with words like urban, authentic, and vibrant. The neighborhood is home to <\/span>St. Hyacinth Basilica,<\/span><\/a> one of only three basilicas in Chicago, and is often referred to as \u201c<\/span>the neighborhood that built Chicago<\/span><\/a>.\u201d <\/span>But, like any other neighborhood, Avondale has taken years to become what it is today. Let\u2019s step back in time to take a brief walk through the history of Avondale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first European settler in Avondale was Abraham Harris who settled the area three years after its 1850 incorporation into\u00a0Jefferson Township<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0In 1869, Avondale was incorporated as a village. It has been speculated that developer and Pennsylvania native John Lewis Cochran named the village in honor of the miners and rescue workers who died in the\u00a0Avondale coal mine fire<\/a>. Atypical for the time, Avondale was racially integrated in the nineteenth century with twenty\u00a0African American<\/a>\u00a0families moving to the area and building Avondale’s first church in the 1880s.[2]<\/a><\/sup> Avondale, along with the rest of Jefferson Township, was annexed by the City of Chicago in 1889. This group swelled to 70 by 1880, but by 1920, only one African American family remained; the rest had moved to Bronzeville.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Factories and other industries sprang up around the start of the 20th century due to the\u00a0Chicago River<\/a>\u00a0and Avondale’s dense network of transportation corridors that were built in the 1870s and improved after its annexation into Chicago including replacement of\u00a0cable cars<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0electric powered streetcars<\/a>. The resulting jobs in the area were responsible for drawing the initial wave of European immigrants. <\/sup>The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe<\/a>\u00a0witnessed an influx of\u00a0Eastern European<\/a>\u00a0immigrants such as\u00a0Czechs<\/a>,\u00a0Slovaks<\/a>,\u00a0Ukrainians<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Belarusians<\/a>, particularly alongside Poles in the “Polish Village”. A strong\u00a0Filipino<\/a> community became present in Avondale as well, thanks to Chicago’s Filipino TV outlet.[10]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Latino<\/a>\u00a0settlement beginning in the 1980s led to an increase in Avondale’s Hispanic population from 37.6% in 1990 to 62.0% in 2000, with increased numbers of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Central American immigrants.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Due to gentrification<\/a>, the last decade has seen a reversal of this trend, as the non-Hispanic white population has been expanding faster than the Hispanic population. <\/sup>Today, Avondale offers the feeling of a tight-knit community along with a wide variety of dining and entertainment options, making it the perfect place to call home! Many of the burgeoning hot spots are also popping up in this neighborhood, along with top Chicago breweries. All this was concluded to Avondale being named one of the top up and coming neighborhoods in the Nation, according to Lonely Planet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2017, Avondale was named one of the hottest neighborhoods in the US. It\u2019s been described with words like urban, authentic, and vibrant. The neighborhood is home to St. Hyacinth Basilica, one of only three basilicas in Chicago, and is often referred to as \u201cthe neighborhood that built Chicago.\u201d But, like any other neighborhood, Avondale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99745542,"featured_media":19991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1518248],"tags":[691669655,1518248],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/229-1908-milwaukee-40-gresham.jpg?fit=582%2C388&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbBC5T-5cn","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99745542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19994,"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987\/revisions\/19994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fultongrace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}