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Encyclopedia > Gage Park, Chicago

Gage Park is a neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side. Gage Park's population is largely working-class, and its housing stock is mostly bungalows. For generations, the neighborhood was Eastern European, but today it has a growing Latino community.

Gage Park (Chicago, Illinois)
Community Area 63 - Gage Park

Location within the city of Chicago
Neighborhoods
  • Gage Park
ZIP Code parts of 60609, 60629, 60632, 60636
Population (2000) 39,193 (up 45.39% from 1990)
Demographics White
Black
Hispanic
Asian

Median income $36,463
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services

 


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Chicago Park District: Gage Park (291 words)
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Although in 1905 the South Park Commission had pioneered the development of the nation's earliest fieldhouses, by the 1920s, Gage Park still did not have one.
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