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| Community Area 29 - North Lawndale Location within the city of Chicago | ||
| Latitude Longitude | 41°51.6′N, 87°42.6′W | |
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| ZIP Code | parts of 60608, 60623 and 60624 | |
| Area | 8.29 km² (3.20 mi²) | |
| Population (2000) Density | 41,768 (down 11.69% from 1990) 5,039.6 /km² | |
| Demographics | White Black Hispanic Asian Other | 0.92% 93.8% 4.54% 0.13% 0.65% |
| Median income | $18,342 | |
| Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services | ||
North Lawndale (also known simply as "Lawndale") located on the west side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of official community areas in city of Chicago.
According to Charles Leeks, director of NHS, North Lawndale has the greatest concentration of graystones in the city. The City of Chicago has enacted The Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative. From about 1900 to 1950, Jews, overwhelmingly of Russian and Eastern European extraction, dominated the neighborhood, starting in North Lawndale and moving northward as they became more prosperous. In the 1950s, blacks moved in and "unscrupulous real-estate dealers" all but evacuated the white population, which dropped from 87,000 in 1950 to 11,000 in 1960.
According to the Steans Family Foundation, in the decades following the 1960s
Jonathan Kozol devotes a chapter of Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools to North Lawndale, which he says a local resident called "an industrial slum without the industry." At the time, it had "one bank, one supermarket, 48 state lottery agents ... and 99 licensed bars." and that, according to the 1980 census, 58 percent of men and women 17 and older had no jobs.
In 1986 the Steans Family Foundation was founded; it describes itself as "a small family foundation" that "concentrates its grantmaking and programs in North Lawndale" and "by dedicating time, money, and skills... works in partnership with local residents and institutions to build and enhance the North Lawndale community".
In the 1990s, the foundation sees some signs of revitalization, "including a new shopping plaza and some new housing," stabilization of the declining population, and a rise in the number Hispanic residents, currently constituting 4.5% of the population.