^ However, I have in the past described all of the gentrified part of the city west of the Kennedy (so Wicker Park, Bucktown, Ukrainian Village, Logan Square, etc) as “Chicago’s Brooklyn”.
That was like 10-15 years ago when all of that was gentrifying, and gentrification was spreading out along the Blue line like it followed the subways in Brooklyn. It did feel like a pretty distinct area from the less trendy, but traditionally affluent, stretch of the city along the lake (which would of course be the equivalent to Manhattan).
Obviously it’s much smaller, but Chicago is much smaller.
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