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I'll answer as soon as I get a definition of "near north side." According to Realtor.com, it's North Avenue. To my thinking, I'd probably split the difference between Madison and Howard and set it around Addison or Irving Park...

Me? I live in Boystown, a.k.a. East Lakeview.

North Center which, despite claiming that it is the center of North actually lies North of Near North which itself is North of the Loop which as it is North of the South Loop should be called the North Loop which would in turn make Near North simply North and North Center Far North.

60613.

LOGAN SQUARE (logan blvd)

i live in the logan sq/humboldt park area.

The Loop... There aren't many of us in the Loop, but I will do my best to represent.

What's the difference for Northside(near)and (far)? For far, are we talking about the northern suburbs? Or within the city (Roger's Park, etc.)?

West Lakeview

I live in Oak Park, so I marked "suburbs", but I like to pretend it's not REALLY the suburbs. I'm four blocks from an El stop! I can get to the loop in 19 minutes! So is it REALLY the suburbs? It is? Boo.

Edgewater

gold coast, y'all

i've said it before and i'll say it again:
logan square!

(which does not really fit into north side, or west side...)

Albany Park - NorthWEST side

ukraninan village.

Buena Park...what I think is actually the mid-North. I think.

logan square.

This survey needs to be divided into actual neighborhoods as opposed to general areas to make it more interesting to me.
Wicker Park, Logan Square, gold coast, etc.

I am representing Pilsen by the way.

Uhh, the Lyndale neighborhood in Minneapolis...

I'm up here in Evanston.

ukranian village

Boystown.

University City...St. Louis

(an attempt at a little clarification)

katie:
far northside in city, not suburbs.

cara:
we were daunted by the dozens and dozens of neighborhoods, and our survey only holds 10 choices, so we divided it up generally with the hopes that you all would fill in the specifics. which you did!

NorthWEST side, too...Alb-Irv-any Park.

Buena Park. Which is technically Uptown because it's north of Irving Park road. But, as a Reader article wrote a few years ago, "the difference between Buena Park and Uptown is whether or not your building's been rehabbed." :)

Me too for Albany Park (northwest)

Portage Park...way on the Northwest side.

Don't forget the Southwest Side, people there would rather die that say they're from the "West" side.

In that little area that's not quite the East Village, not quite the West Loop or River West, not quite Noble Square ... though they've put up West Town flags all over Chicago Ave, which is just a few blocks north ... The realtor called it the East Village, and a bartender at Hugo's refers to it as "the Patch."

A little help? It's the 1400 block of W. Ohio ... WHERE DO I LIVE????

I'm in the Southwest Loop neighborhood of Pilsen. I just went ahead and chose South Loop since that is what most people call this area....

60608
312 area code

Ravenswood

Saint Paul, MN

Uptown.

I live right on the border between wicker park and humboldt park...but since im one block east of western...most of the delivery people will still come to my block HA!

I have been SERIOUSLY loving the south loop though lately...like nearish to printer's row. I will most likely move in with my boyfriend in a little over a year, and this is where I would very much like to move to.

Does anyone live in this area? Is everything condos....i REALLY would love to find a unique non-condo loft type space. Do these even exist in this neighborhood?

V

Veronica,
By "non-condo loft type space" do you mean, not a typical condo development or a free-standing space? Or do you just mean a rental?

Veronica, There are rental loft apartments on South Dearborn in the heart of Printers Row.

I too am in love with the nabe. There is a lot of activity going on with housing, especially on the west side of Clark between Roosevelt and Harrison. It may be vacant land now, but as long as the economy doesn't completely fall to crap, there will be new homes, shops, theaters, and more coming in the next few years.

Wicker Park

K-
By non-condo I suppose I mean two things...rental for sure as I dont think I would be prepared/able to buy anything in the next few years....

But I also mean untraditional...as in not newly rehabbed cookie cutter "Fake loft" like i see so much of in wicker park where i live now being built....ideally id love to basically get a warehouse type space or raw loft space...seems like there are a lot of buildings that at least from the outside, seem to fit this bill...not sure if they are inhabitable etc though ha!

technically we're in Wrigleyville. However, since we're neither young enough or (more accurately) frat enough to say we live in wrigley, I am trying to change the name of our little section of the city in honor of our most Famous resident Joan Cusack.

If I had my way, the little tophat section of Wrigleyville would be known as Joan's-town.

currently in the Lakeview area, but as of October i'll be in Logan Square! sad i'll be leaving my area (won't miss the frat lifestyle that runs rampant throught the area though), but excited about Logan Sqaure, already been scouting it out and finding my local grocery store and wine shop.

Bucktown.

Moving to the South Loop / Pilsen area in February, provided my condo is complete by then.

Veronica,

I work in Printer's Row (Harrison/LaSalle) and love the area. Consider it my second home. The building we work in is an open loft(or partial now). Absolutely love it and would love a condo just like it.

Keep looking around. It's my impression that most buildings in the area are like this. Good luck.

South Andersonville

Representing for North/Northwest Side -- Lincoln Square/Northcenter:)

Oh and Dave, you live in "the Patch", which means a lot to an Italian-American like me, but not as much to everyone else in Chicago.

albany park

edgewater

wicker park

Albany Park

Rogers Park!

Veronica,
You might try www.urbanspan.com for rentals. This site does a pretty good job of consolidating both "for sale" and "for rent" loft spaces. I used this site to research buildings when I was looking to buy.
Good luck!
Kathryn

Its strange that the survey shows most readers are from the Near Northside, but a quick scan of the comments show that Near Northside is only represented by one reader (two including me) and no mention of lincoln park..... doesn't near northside cover only gold coast, river north, lincoln park, streeterville and lincoln park?

Thanks, Anglic Doctor! Can you elaborate why it would mean something to an Italian-American (like you ... and me)?

Hyde Park!

Little Village

Dave:

"The Patch" is an old Italian immigrant neighborhood --- many of the italian_Americans of the Northwest and West Sides and Western Suburbs have their origins there. Also famously (and infamously) Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo and other members of the Chicago Outfit were from there.

I live north of Irving Park Road, but south of Buena, so I guess Uptown.

The publishing company I work for is in the Donohue Building on Printer's Row. The office is actually a condo, so there's a clawfoot tub in the storage room. I want to live there!

I've been looking to buy, but my price range is so limited it makes it hard and I don't know anything about Edgewater or Rogers Park. Tell me where to stay away from!

Dave,

The 1400 block of Ohio, (I'll bet I know you as I lived in the area for close to 10 years and on that block for 5) is called Grand and Ogden. Period.

Sarah

if you turned a bit to the right in that picture of the damen stop... you could probably see my house.