Rogers Park Community Council

Rogers Park Community Council

Rogers Park

Rogers Park is one of the most culturally and economically diverse neighborhoods in Chicago and the nation. Located in the far northeast corner of the city, more than 80 languages are spoken among the community's 63,000 residents. In Rogers Park, people celebrate diversity and value harmonious living. Residents of differing incomes and ages live side-by-side and work together to build a community where everyone, can live, work and succeed. "In a city made famous for an accepted and often enforced cultural and socio-economic homogeneity within neighborhoods," says the Chicago Tribune, "Rogers Park stands almost alone as an exception."

FACT: Rogers Park is a Chicago neighborhood located on the far northeast corner of the city and is located between Lake Michigan (east), Ridge Boulevard (west), the Evanston / Chicago city limits (north) and Devon Avenue (south). 60,378 people call Rogers Park
home. Rogers Park is census "Community Area 1" for Chicago.

West Ridge (also known as West Rogers Park or Nortown) is "Community Area 2" for census information and is the area west of Ridge Boulevard to Kedzie Avenue. 65,374 people call West Ridge home.