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Lincoln Square Neighborhood HistoryRyan WallenfangLong before the intersection at Lawrence Avenue and Western Avenue was called the Lincoln Square Neighborhood, the area was mostly tranquil hardwood forest and lush green pasture land. Horse-drawn carts carried sleepy workers up a sandy path that was Western Avenue. It was the outskirts of Chicago where people would camp in the forest as immigrants found work in pickle and onion fields or tended livestock on the farms. After the Chicago fire, strict building codes forbade the construction of wood-frame homes within the city limits. So, people moved to the less congested, green acreage North and West of the city’s center. Many of them German immigrants, they built less expensive wood structures in what became the Budlong Woods Neighborhood, and the Ravenswood Neighborhood.
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Look down. No really, look down at these two very similar blue houses. They both are blue for starters; in fact they both are ’starters.’ One is on a tract of land that is 33×50 (feet that is), the other is on a half acre. Both have basements. Both are described as ‘Peaceful’ and both are located in Midwest states –the heartland of America, if you will.
