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Kensington is a neighborhood in the Far South Side of Chicago. Founded as the town of Calumet Junction in 1852, it began as a small community of rail-workers servicing the junction of the Illinois Central and Michigan Central railroads. It was nicknamed "Bumtown" by neighbors, though the origin is unclear. When the Pullman Sleeping Car Company established itself nearby, Kensington swelled with workers that could not or would not live in the Pullman company town. The commercial district around Kensington station boomed as Pullman residents escaped the company run stores: the saloons along Front Avenue found particular success in serving the dry town's denizens. The 1894 Pullman strike was headquartered in a Kensington clubhouse. As the Far South Side developed and immigrants came seeking work, Italians moved into Kensington. They were soon the majority, and the neighborhood remained a vibrant Italian enclave until the 1970s. Today, Kensington is a Hispanic enclave centered around a smaller commercial district, and the Front Avenue saloons are gone.[1]
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Kensington is a neighborhood in the Far South Side of Chicago. Founded as the town of Calumet Junction in 1852, it began as a small community of rail-workers servicing the junction of the Illinois Central and Michigan Central railroads. It was nicknamed "Bumtown" by neighbors, though the origin is unclear. When the Pullman Sleeping Car Company established itself nearby, Kensington swelled with workers that could not or would not live in the Pullman company town. The commercial district around Kensington station boomed as Pullman residents escaped the company run stores: the saloons along Front Avenue found particular success in serving the dry town's denizens. The 1894 Pullman strike was headquartered in a Kensington clubhouse. As the Far South Side developed and immigrants came seeking work, Italians moved into Kensington. They were soon the majority, and the neighborhood remained a vibrant Italian enclave until the 1970s. Today, Kensington is a Hispanic enclave centered around a smaller commercial district, and the Front Avenue saloons are gone.
West Pullman is a neighborhood located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago. The neighborhood was initially inhabited by workers of the Pullman Train Company looking to escape the grip of the company town, but soon swelled with industrial workers of all stripes. The commercial corridor of Kensington/115th Street was one of many Italian communities within Chicago, and now hosts a Hispanic enclave. It is bounded on the north by 115th Street, on the east by the former Illinois Central Railroad, on the south by the Calumet River and Riverdale, on the west by Calumet Park, Blue Island and Ashland Avenue.
115th Street/Kensington is a commuter rail station on the far south side of Chicago that serves the Metra Electric District north to Millennium Station and south to University Park and Blue Island. The station is located at 115th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in the Pullman & West Pullman neighborhoods. It is the last station for Blue Island Branch trains before those split off of the main line for Blue Island. As of 2018, the station is the 37th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,136 weekday boardings. The South Shore Line diverges to Indiana immediately south of this station. It had previously stopped at this station prior to February 15, 2012, with the reconfiguration of the junction to minimize congestion. In 1991, an advocacy group formed to press Metra to make necessary cosmetic and safety upgrades to this station, one of the busiest on the Metra Electric District. Dubbed "Operation Restore Kensington," the group pressured railroad officials to work closely with the city to upgrade parking, enhance station lighting, landscaping and security, and persuade local vendors to open concession stands in the station. For its efforts, O.R.K. monitored the railroad's efforts to build a brand new station and assisted with the railroad's efforts to increase station parking facilities. O.R.K. was disbanded in the 1990s. The station was also served by Illinois Central intercity-trains from Chicago to points south. A station typology adopted by the Chicago Plan Commission on October 16, 2014, assigns the 115th Street/Kensington station a typology of Local Activity Center. A Local Activity Center typology is primarily characterized by the Metra station being the central focus of a built-up and identifiable neighborhood.
Kensington Park may refer to: Australia Kensington Park, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide Canada Kensington Park (Burnaby), a park in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia Jamaica Kensington Park (Kingston), a cricket ground in Kingston New Zealand Kensington Park, Orewa, a subdivision the northern town of Orewa United Kingdom Kensington Park, Bristol, a district Kensington Park, London, a 19th-century designation for a London residential district now known as the Ladbroke Estate in Notting Hill, London Kensington Park School, an independent school in London United States Kensington Park, California Kensington Park, a park in Chicago, Illinois Kensington Park, former name of Kensington, California Kensington Park, Florida, a census-designated place Kensington Metropark, Michigan
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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