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Chicago's southwest side. Morgan Park is Community Area 75 of the 77 on the city's official list.
It encompasses the area bounded by 119th St to 115th St, from I-57 to Western Ave (2400 W). From 115th St to 107th St the east - west boundaries are Halsted St (800 W) to California Ave (2800 W). Morgan Park's sub-neighborhoods include Beverly Woods, Kennedy Park and West Morgan Park.
ZIP code: 60643.
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This weekend marks the 42nd Annual Beverly Hills / Morgan Park Home Tour. Six private homes and a historic church will be open for viewing Sunday, May 20, from 11 to 5. Tickets for the tour are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. From 1 to 3 on Sunday you can meet artist ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 18, 2012
Five years ago YoChicago headed south to Beverly and Morgan Park for an week-long look at the neighborhoods, most of which are treated as one by the Beverly Area Planning Association (BAPA). In keeping with its mission to preserve and promote the “Beverly Hills and Morgan Park community” as a culturally diverse “Village in the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 26, 2012
If you want to lock in extremely low housing costs in a decent area you might consider a close look at parts of Morgan Park. A 2-bedroom, 2-bath condo at 2014 W 111th St, a half block from the Metra station pictured above, is being offered for $29,500 under the Fannie Mae HomePath program, an ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 16, 2012
The April issue of This Old House magazine singles out Beverly as one of the nation’s “best old house neighborhoods” for 2012. This Old House, surprisingly for a national publication doing a nationwide story, gets much of what it writes about Beverly right. It does get some important things wrong, including the notion that Beverly’s ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 24, 2012
Morgan Park saw 151 sales of single-family homes between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, according to Chicago Magazine. That’s on par with North Center, and just four sales below Lincoln Park. Granted, the average price of a single-family in Morgan Park is hundreds of thousands less than in either of those neighborhoods, but ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on September 30, 2010
Now that you’ve seen all of my Beverly / Morgan Park drive-around with Marcia Walsh, let’s look at some of the homes for sale in both neighborhoods. Metra’s Rock Island District line runs southwest through Beverly and Morgan Park on its way from the Loop to Joliet. Eight of the neighborhoods’ stations are located along ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on December 10, 2009
The final segment of my Beverly and Morgan Park drive-around features the homes of Griffin Place (formerly 103rd Place), site of the largest concentration of small Prairie-style houses in Chicago. Many of the homes on this street were designed by Walter Burley Griffin, who worked in Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio as a young architect and ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on December 10, 2009
Part 4 of my driving tour through Beverly and Morgan Park with Marcia Walsh showcases the variety of home styles that line the neighborhoods’ streets, ranging from tight rows of bungalows to Queen Anne, Prairie School, and Renaissance Revival homes overlooking Longwood Drive.
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Posted by Joseph Askins on December 9, 2009
Plant a newcomer down amidst the winding roads and rolling lawns of Beverly, and she’d have a hard time identifying the neighborhood as a part of Chicago. In the third segment from my video tour of this South Side neighborhood with Marcia Walsh of the Beverly Area Planning Association, we check out the homes near ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on December 8, 2009
In the second segment from my video tour of Beverly and Morgan Park, I ride along with Marcia Walsh of the Beverly Area Planning Association down one of the main commercial corridors of both neighborhoods: the stretch of Western Avenue running between 95th and 115th streets.
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Posted by Joseph Askins on December 7, 2009
Two years ago, Joe Zekas shared footage of a leisurely Saturday drive through North Beverly on our YouTube channel. YoChicago hasn’t paid many visits to Beverly or its neighbor to the south, Morgan Park, since that time. I remedied that yesterday morning when I met up with Marcia Walsh, the coordinator of economic development at ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on December 3, 2009
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