welcome to chicago
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wow oh you looks so cool
i'm dried drink that you just think this is kind of falling apart because someone ate the bottom
ricker park a landmark district and historic place in chicago home to 26 000 residents and a medium
home price of 550 000 nowadays it is filled with luxury boutique stores that means expensive and
it's famous for the movie wicker park which was actually filmed in montreal named after charles
wicker you saw his statue in the park he developed the neighborhood in 1870 and growth was spurred by
the chicago fire of 1871. around this time wealthy northern europeans the germans and the norwegians
came in and they built mansions the polish soon followed suit throughout the 20th century up to
world war ii poles flooded the area and you could hear polish spoken in many shops in the 1950s
famous author nelson elgren wrote about this time and not so favorably the streets were a little bit
flooded with some problem people in the 1960s and 70s displaced by other developments in the cities
puerto ricans began to move in nearby in humboldt park the latin kings famous gang was founded
and the young lords led civil rights protests the 70s were a terminus time in wicker park when many
places were due to arson for insurance purposes after the decline of the 70s the 80s saw a flood
of artists move into the neighborhood fueled by jeep real estate this culminated in the around
the coyote festival in 1989 which became looptopia in 2008. this led to its reputation as a hipster
artist enclave in 2012 forbes mentioned it as the fourth hippest hipster neighborhood in the usa in
2001 real world popular mtv show was filmed in the neighborhood and that led to many protests as well
people didn't want to see the gentrification of the neighborhood nowadays the neighborhood is
fully gentrified with many stores such as adidas champion yeti i think free people and you gotta
have a lot of money in wicker park the restaurants aren't cheap the homes aren't cheap crazy place
now here's a very hipster place it's here for a limited time only and they have artisanal food
products they gotta feed the vegans so they have a variety of vegan cheeses and oat milks i don't
even know what this stuff is magic mind it sounds like something i should take though
and here's plant-based pate and some fancy sausages for all you meat eaters out there
just an example of what's going on in wicker park in this day and age check
out the beautiful architecture i love it i hope you enjoyed our short tour
of the neighborhood and a quick history lesson if you made it to this point definitely subscribe
drop a comment where we should go next and we'll see you next time
i think he's living the best life
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