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Homes for Sale in the Wicker Park Neighborhood Chicago, IL
 
 
Wicker Park Chicago Yesteryear ...      
On October 8, 1871, one-third of Chicago's 300,000 resident lost their homes, and at least 300 perished in the Great Chicago Fire.
 
This influenced the architecture of Wicker Park Chicago. Having witnessed the vulnerability of wood construction, many Wicker Park residents built large mansions made almost entirely of brick and stone.
 
By the 1890s, the area transformed into a showplace of Victorian Gothic and Italianate architecture. Many of the houses circled the four-acre park of which the community got its name.
 
By 1930, Wicker Park Chicago, began to undergo a dramatic ethnic and class transition. This change coincided with a post-World War II housing shortage, and many of the mansions were divided into multifamily units and rooming houses. By the 1960s and 1970s, Wicker Park was a predominately poor and working-class neighborhood.
 
Wicker Park Chicago Today ... 
Efforts to revitalize Wicker Park Chicago, in the early 1980s initiated another wave of changes to the neighborhood. Young professionals bought many of the old houses and restored them to single-family residences. Gentrification stirred ethnic and class tension, as it displaced many of the area's poor.
 
By the 1990s, however, Wicker Park Chicago had achieved a level of cultural and ethnic heterogeneity. With commercial development ... more

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