Englewood is a neighbourhood of Chicagos skyline at day Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 US Census. It is the fourth largest city in North America and the seventh largest in... Chicago, Illinois with some 3,000 inhabitants. The original inhabitants of Englewood were Mascoutin Indians. In 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January 3 - One of the predecessor papers to the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded by George Cavanaugh. January 10 - Uniform penny postage introduced in the UK. January 19 - Captain... 1840, Englewood was officially documented as habital land to the United States Government Land Office in Chicago. In the Events and Trends Crimean war (1854 - 1856) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict takes place around Crimea, on the northern coasts of the Black Sea. World Leaders... 1850s and 60's as chicago was becoming a city of railroad tracks and an economic powerplant, Englewood was just another supporting neighborhood. In 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events January - April January 18 - The member-states of the North German Confederation unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of... 1871, when the Geat Chicago fire destroyed a large portion of Chicago, residents moved to the outskirts and Englewood was filling with people. From then until now Englewood has gone through the suffering from the The Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in 1929 and bottomed in 1933. However, most of the remainder of the 1930s was spent recovering from the contraction, and it would be well after World War II when such indicators as industrial production, share prices and global GDP... Great Depression and An African-American drinks out of a water fountain marked for colored in 1939 at a street car terminal in Oklahoma City. Racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human capacities, that a certain race is inherently superior or inferior to others, and/or that individuals... racial discrimination. Today, Englewood is a vacant town with buildings falling apart and 43% percent of the residents living below the poverty line. Over 700 murders have occurred there in only 10 years. Englewood is slowly This once impoverished part of Jersey Citys historic downtown is quickly becoming gentrified. Gentrification refers to the physical, social, economic, and cultural phenomenon whereby working-class and/or inner-city neighbourhoods are converted into more affluent middle-class communities, as by remodelling buildings, resulting in increased property values and... gentrifying.