Lincoln Park & DePaul Community

Lincoln Park/DePaul

Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is named after the largest public park in Chicago and the neighborhood’s namesake. Bounded by North Avenue, Diversey Parkway, Ashland Avenue and Lake Michigan, the Chicago neighborhood of Lincoln Park is one of the city’s most trendy areas. The neighborhood is like a miniature city in itself, boasting almost every imaginable type of shop, restaurant, or entertainment form one can picture. In the last few years there has been an explosion of development on the southern side, with colossal upscale shopping centers opening along North Ave. between Halsted and Ashland.

Once related with modish young up-and-coming singles, Lincoln Park is now gaining a reputation as the ideal Chicago neighborhood to raise a family. Many homes in Lincoln Park are brownstones and graystones, with a significant number that have been turned into condominiums. Many single family homes that were converted into multiple-housing buildings for students and young professionals years ago are now being transformed back to their original states. Plus the streets of Lincoln Park are among the greenest in the city, with a plethora of trees and foliage to give this neighborhood a suburban feel. Real estate prices range from near-Gold-Coast level to unexpectedly reasonable, depending on the style of property and particular area of the community.

DePaul

Situated in a pocket of Chicago’s sought-after Lincoln Park neighborhood is the small enclave of DePaul, which rests just to the east of the DePaul University campus. This neighborhood boasts of grand housing values and exquisite residential architecture comparable to that of its big sister neighborhood. New construction condos and rehabs of old townhomes are a familiar sight in DePaul; however, the community is immersed in graceful traces of the Victorian era with stately brownstone walkups and towering hundred-year-old trees. DePaul’s presence in the community guarantees a steady and interesting blend of students, as well as a higher-than-average ratio of diverse business opportunities that cater to students and locals alike.

Ah, Lincoln Park, there should be enough there to keep you busy for a couple of hours, or perhaps for a lifetime.

Community Features:

• Lincoln Park, the park itself contains lakeside beaches, a bird sanctuary, botanical gardens, playgrounds, golf courses, tennis courts, boating facilities, and open areas for football, baseball, soccer, horseback riding, and much more. Within just a few blocks of each other one can spend a day at the Lincoln Park Zoo, frolic with the kids at Oz Park, then visit the Lincoln Park Branch of the Chicago Public Library.
• Lincoln Park is home to numerous legendary theaters.
• The well-known Second City Theatre is known as the world-famous birthplace of countless comedy legends.
• There is also the equally famed Steppenwolf Theater, home to some of the most respected actors on stage or screen.
• Then there’s Chicago’s notorious Biograph Theater, allegedly where John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI.
• The Greenhouse Theater performs high-octane material on Lincoln Avenue.
• The New Leaf Theater holds premiers and the occasional classic in an intimate space within the historic Lincoln Park Cultural Center.
• Theater on the Lake, at Fullerton Beach, presents a summertime series of crowd-pleasers since 1942.