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CHICAGO—This city boasts a diverse composition of groups that have made the town their home since its incorporation in 1837, one migration wave after another. The changing locales from one generation of ethnic enclaves to another intrigue me as I wonder how my particular neighborhood will fare in the future...
...relived my high school commute, my original eye-opener to the segregated variety within Chicago, each morning this summer that I traveled to my internship downtown. Out of my bus window I see the change in the urban landscape and wonder how some neighborhoods change more than others. I wonder if all neighborhoods change, or—if they do—if it is always a positive change. Retracing the 60 route made me feel that the more I think about Chicago, the less I know the city...
...railways that engulfed the Near West Side. The early Czech settlers in Little Village honored the Old Country by naming the church Blessed Agnes of Bohemia. Now, the church serves the largest concentration of people of Mexican-descent in the Midwest. I doubt that many parishioners or congregants wonder about the church’s remote name. As more Mexicans arrive and are born in Chicago (Latinos now compromise about 25 percent of the city’s total three million population), it becomes easier to forget the legacy of old neighborhoods...
...circle campus; what is left is demarcated by a few restaurants and a statue of Joe DiMaggio. Greektown is a collection of lively eateries, a few Greek columns, bakeries, and an increasingly young, professional population inhabiting lofts. As the 60 route takes me through each of these neighborhoods, I wonder about the permanence of other establishments I take for granted, especially my own neighborhood...
...tombs and mural art. The Koguryo kingdom was once a leading power in northeast Asia, able to defy even the mighty Chinese Tang dynasty for a while. Contemporary Koreans?from both the North and South?take pride in Koguryo as a precursor of their own modern states. They wonder how Korean history might have been had the kingdom withstood the 7th century advances of a lethal alliance between the Tang and the Silla kingdom, a rival neighbor to Koguryo's south...