Lakeview
Community area
Community Area 6 - Lakeview
Looking across Belmont Harbor toward Lakeview
Nickname:  Little Michigan
Location within the city ofChicago
Coordinates:41°56.61′N87°39.25′W / 41.94350°N 87.65417°W /41.94350; -87.65417
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Cook
City	Chicago
Named after	Lake Michigan
Neighborhoods	List Boystown Graceland West Lakeview Lakeview East North Halsted South East Ravenswood Wrigleyville
Area
• Total	3.13 sq mi (8.10 km2)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	103,050
• Density	33,000/sq mi (12,700/km2)
Demographics 2021[1]
• White	75.6%
• Black	4.3%
• Hispanic	9.1%
• Asian	7.2%
• Other	3.8%
Educational Attainment (2021)[1]
• High School Diploma or Higher	98.2%
• Bachelor's Degree or Higher	83.3%
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	parts of 60613, 60657
Area code	ZIP Codes
Median household income (2021)	$95,173[1]
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services[clarification needed]

Lakeview orLake View is one of the 77community areas of Chicago,Illinois. Lakeview is located on the city's North Side and is bordered byWest Diversey Parkway on the south, West Irving Park Road andWest Montrose Ave on the north, North Ravenswood Avenue on the west, and the shore ofLake Michigan on the east. TheUptown community area is to Lakeview's north,Lincoln Square to its northwest,North Center to its west, andLincoln Park to its south. The 2020 population of Lakeview was 103,050 residents, making it the second-largest Chicago community area by population.^[1]

West Lakeview is composed of smaller neighborhood enclaves such as Lincoln Hub and Southport Corridor. Lakeview East, also known as the Greater Lakeview area, hosts the Central Lakeview Business District, Sheridan Station Corridor,Wrigleyville, Broadway Corridor and North Halsted. It is famous for its largeLGBT population and holds apride parade each June andNorthalsted Market Days. Wrigleyville surroundsWrigley Field, the home of theChicago Cubs. Lakeview is home to the Belmont Theater District, showcasing over 20 theaters and live performance venues located near theBelmont‘L’ station.^[2]

Lakeview was used as a camp and trail path for theMiami,Ottawa, andWinnebagoNative American tribes. In 1837, Conrad Sulzer ofWinterthur,Zürich,Switzerland, became the first known European settler to live in the area. In 1853, one of the first permanent structures was built by James Rees and Elisha Hundley on the corner where present-day West Byron Street (or West Sheridan Road) meets North Lake Shore Drive. It was called the Hotel Lakeview, named for thehotel's unobstructed view of the shore ofLake Michigan.^[4] It gained what was characterized as a resort atmosphere.

The early settlement continued to grow amongst theEnglish settlers, assisted by increased immigration of farming families fromGermany,Luxembourg, andSweden.^[5][4] Lakeview experienced a population boom as Chicago suffered a deadly and devastatingcholera outbreak. The Hotel Lakeview served as a refuge for many Chicagoans but became filled to capacity. Homestead lands were sold, and housing was built. Access to the new community was provided by a wooden plank road connected to present-day West Fullerton Parkway, which was called Lakeview Plank Road and is present-day NorthBroadway. With infrastructure and a growing population, residents realized it was time to organize formal governance to provide essential public services.

According to the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce,^[6] Lakeview was an incorporated Illinoiscivil township with acharter granted by theIllinois General Assembly, independent of neighboring Chicago. Lakeview's first townshipelection was held in 1857. The main building was Town Hall at the intersection of present-day West Addison and North Halsted streets. A building still bearing that name stands today as the former headquarters of theChicago Police Department's 23rd District. Lakeview Township included all land east of Western Avenue, betweenDevon Avenue andNorth Avenue,^[7] generally encompassing the community areas ofEdgewater,Uptown, Lakeview andLincoln Park, as well as the eastern sections of what are now the community areas ofNorth Center andLincoln Square.

During the Civil War, the present-day bustling intersection of North Broadway, North Clark Street and West Diversey Parkway was home to Camp Fry. When the camp opened in May 1864, it served as a training facility for the volunteer132nd and134th Illinois Infantry regiments. Shortly after their deployment toColumbus, Kentucky, the camp was converted to a prison forConfederate soldiers, where conditions were markedly different from those of many otherprisoner-of-war camps. The few residents of the area known as Lakeview Township often complained ofrebelsing-alongs held in the camp from time to time.

Lakeview's early industry was farming, especially crops ofcelery, and at the time it was considered a celery-growing capital. From 1870 to 1887, the population of the township grew from 2,000 citizens to 45,000. As a result, there was growing need of more public-service access, and Lakeview was absorbed into Chicago in 1889 as a way of meeting those demands.^[8] In 1889, areal estate boom became a major economic stimulant. According to the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce, over forty percent of the neighborhood's present-day buildings were constructed during that time.

West Addison Street was named afterThomas Addison, an English doctor who first describedAddison's disease.^[10]West Barry Avenue was named after the commander of theContinental Navy shipLexington during theRevolutionary War,John Barry. West Belmont Avenue was named after theAmerican Civil War'sBattle of Belmont on November 7, 1861, inMississippi County,Missouri. North Broadway, which used to be called Evanston Avenue after the nearby municipality ofEvanston, Illinois, was renamed after Broadway inNew York City. North Clark Street was named after the legendary frontier explorerGeorge Rogers Clark. West Diversey Parkway was named after beer brewerMichael Diversey.William Butler Ogden, the first mayor of Chicago, named North Halsted Street after financiers William H. and Caleb Halsted. It was formerly called Dyer Street, in honor ofThomas Dyer,mayor of Chicago. West Irving Park Road was named after the authorWashington Irving.^[11]

Philip Sheridan features prominently on the corner of West Belmont Avenue and North Lake Shore Drive, memorialized as a towering statue depicting Sheridan on horseback. TheU.S. Armygeneral is the namesake of NorthSheridan Road, which heads north toRacine, Wisconsin. In 1871, he brought troops to Chicago in the aftermath of theGreat Chicago Fire and was authorized by MayorJoseph Medill to take control of the city undermartial law. He was later made commanding general of the U.S. Army byPresidentChester A. Arthur.

• John Peter Altgeld (1847–1902), 20th Illinois Governor and significant progressive era politician. He resided at theBrewster Apartments at 500 W. Diversey after leaving the governorship in 1897.^[12][13]
• Dean Baker (born 1958),macroeconomist
• Charlie Chaplin, the silent film comedian, lived at theBrewster Apartments when he was filming movies withEssanay Studios in 1915.^[12]
• Lucy Flower, the social reformer who was instrumental in establishingCook County's juvenile court system, lived at 1920 W. Wellington.^[13]
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), the famous inventor, lived at 429 W. Belmont^[14] and had his studio at 729 W. Belmont.^[13]
• John Gunther (1901–1970), journalist and writer. He was a childhood resident of Lake View.^[15]
• Pearl M. Hart (1890–1975), Chicago criminal defense attorney known for representing homosexuals, juveniles, and others, lived at 2821 N. Pine Grove.^[13]
• Paul Harvey (1918–2009), radio broadcaster forABC News Radio notable for hisThe Rest of the Story segments. He resided at 3400 North Lake Shore Drive in the 1950s.^[16]
• Cody Keenan, Director of Speechwriting for PresidentBarack Obama from 2013 to 2017. He was a childhood resident of Lake View until his family moved toEvanston, Illinois.^[17]
• Robert S. Kennemore (1920–1989), recipient of theMedal of Honor for conduct at theBattle of Chosin Reservoir. He resided at 746 West California Terrace prior to his enlistment in theUnited States Marine Corps in 1940.^[18][19]
• Scott MacArthur (born 1979), actor and writer. He was a childhood resident of Wrigleyville.^[20]
• Minnie Miñoso, the firstAfro-Cuban player inMajor League Baseball andfirst Black player to play for theChicago White Sox. He lived in Wrigleyville after his retirement from baseball.^[21]
• Mike Nussbaum (1923–2023), actor and director of stage and screen. Lived at 3800 North Lake Shore Drive.
• Andy Richter actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer, rented an apartment in the Graceland West neighborhood.^[22]
• Mike Royko (1932–1997), author andPulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist. He lived in Lake View from 1981 to 1985 during his self-describedCondo-Man period.^[23]
• Steven Schiff (1947–1998), member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew Mexico's 1st congressional district (1989–1998). He was a childhood resident of Lake View, living at 1022 West Belmont Avenue.^[24]
• Michael Silverstein (1945–2020), linguist,MacArthur Fellow, and pioneering professor of linguistics,anthropology, and sociology at theUniversity of Chicago. He resided at 3800 North Lake Shore Drive.
• Art Telcser (1932–1999), 64thSpeaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Telcser was a resident of Lake View during his legislative career including his two-day stint as Speaker.^[25]
• Elizabeth Wood, the first executive director of theChicago Housing Authority, lived at 3145 North Cambridge Avenue.^[13]

Lakeview is divided into Lakeview East and Lakeview West, with Lakeview East having distinctive areas that include Wrigleyville and Northalsted, formerly known as Boystown, the city's gay village.^[26] The boundaries of Lakeview are 1800 west to the west, Montrose to the north and Clark to the east north of Irving Park, but the rest is of Irving Park to the north,Lake Michigan to the east, and Diversey to the south.

Lakeview East is considered part of the Greater Lakeview area. Lakeview East expanded its boundaries in 2017 to include the Central Lakeview area which is home toWrigley Field. Lakeview East boundaries are defined as: Lake Shore Drive on the East, Racine on the West, Diversey Parkway on the South and Irving Park on the north.^[27] Lakeview East area consists of two of the largest entertainment districts in Chicago,Boystown and Wrigleyville.^[28] Lakeview East is notable for its Jewish population and has Four synagogues,Chabad of East LakeviewAnshe Sholom B'nai Israel (Modern Orthodox),Anshe Emet Synagogue (Conservative), andTemple Sholom (Reform and largest synagogue in the Chicago area).

Lakeview, especially along the Lake Shore Drive and Broadway corridors, consists of upscalecondominiums and higher-rentmid-rise apartments andlofts. Small businesses,boutiques, restaurants and community institutions are found along North Broadway and North Halsted Street.

Gentrification, diversification and population shift have changed Lakeview, with new developments and new businesses such asMariano's andTarget. Historic churches remain preserved as integral parts of the community, such as LakeviewPresbyterian Church andSaint Peter'sEpiscopal Church.Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is the residence of anepiscopal vicar andauxiliary bishop of theRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.^[29] It is also themother church of the localvicariate and the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach, controversially created by CardinalJoseph Bernardin, which is one of the largest of the few gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholicwelcoming congregations created and authorized by adiocese in the United States.^[30]

TheLakeview Historic District, which is listed on theNational Register of Historic Places, is in southeastern Lakeview,^[31] as is the Newport Avenue District, which spans Newport Avenue between Halsted Avenue and Clark Street^[32] and includes the historicVautravers Building.

Formerly a working-class neighborhood, Wrigleyville is the nickname of the neighborhood directly surrounding Wrigley Field.Wrigley Field is the home of theChicago Cubs. Within Lakeview East, its borders run from north to south, Grace Street to Cornelia Avenue and from east to west, Wilton Avenue to Racine Avenue.

Wrigleyville features low-rise brick buildings and houses, some with rooftopbleachers colloquially calledWrigley Rooftops where people can purchase seats to watch baseball games or concerts that, while generally more expensive than tickets for seats within the park itself, come with all you can eat and drink service. Proprietors are able to do so under special agreements with the Cubs organization. Many Wrigleyville bars and restaurants (particularly on North Clark Street) feature sports-oriented themes. Bars such as Sluggers, Murphy's Bleachers, Casey Moran's, Merkle's, Sports Corner andThe Cubby Bear host the Cubs crowds near the Wrigley Field intersection of North Clark Street and West Addison Street.

The Boystown section of Lakeview holds the distinction of being the nation's first gay village officially recognized by a big city government.^[33] In 1998, thenMayorRichard M. Daley endeavored to create a $3.2 million restoration of the North Halsted Street corridor, and the city erected rainbow pylon landmarks along the route. In 2012, the Legacy Project began the ongoing process of installing plaques on the pylons that commemorate important people and milestones in LGBT history.^[34] It is also the cultural center of one of the largestlesbian,gay,bisexual, andtransgender (LGBT) communities in thenation.^[35] Boystown has grown into a cultural center for the LGBT residents living within theChicago metropolitan area.^[36][37]

The area caters to Chicago nightlife, featuring more than 60 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender bars, restaurants and nightclubs. It is now home toCenter on Halsted, an LGBT community center that hosts an array of public programs open to the public that provide fun, educational and enlightening opportunities for members of the LGBT community and allies.

The area is host to theChicago Pride Parade, one of the largestgay prideparades in the nation, which takes place in Lakeview on the last Sunday of each June. The community area has also been host to several other major events: In 2006 it played host to an internationalsports andcultural festival,Gay Games VII, with its closing ceremonies held at Wrigley Field and headlined byCyndi Lauper. The area also holds theNorthalsted Market Days, an annual two-day festival event geared toward the LGBT community. Northalsted also includes some ofChicago's off-Loop theater, specialty restaurants,greystone andbrownstone walk-up buildings and other historic architecture, trendy fashion outlets, wine boutiques, chain stores, and independent shops.

The district's informal boundaries, overlapping with Lakeview East, areIrving Park Road on the north, Broadway on the east, Wellington Avenue on the south, andSheffield Avenue on the west. TheCenter on Halsted, an LGBT community center, is also located in this area.

In November 2020, theChicago Reader, analternative newspaper, published an article criticizing the area for focusing on "gay men." This resulted in the Boystown name being dropped by some businesses and some community organizations in exchange for "Northalsted", a more neutral name styled by the area business association in 2021.^[38] Despite the renaming efforts, the area is still colloquially called Boystown.^[39] Some residents have voiced concern that the name change will dilute the neighborhood's history as a haven for the gay community.^[40]

West Lakeview is located along the border of theRoscoe Village community area. West Lakeview Neighbors, a residential organization, defines West Lakeview as the area bounded by West Addison Street on the north, West Diversey Parkway on the south, North Southport Avenue on the east and North Ravenswood Avenue on the west.^[41] Affordable real estate and popular culture, such as that found along busy Southport Avenue, draws young adults from all over the city for quiet living or casual dining. A historic destination that opened just north of West Lakeview^[42] on August 22, 1929, is theMusic Box Theatre, which opened as a new technology sound film venue.^[43] The theater brands itself today as "Chicago's year-round film festival".^[44] Dinkel's Bakery, which was located in West Lakeview near Lincoln and Roscoe, operated in the neighborhood for a century (1922–2022).

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Sheridan Road, from Irving Park Road to the North and Byron/W. Sheridan Street to the South, is the home of the CTA'sSheridan station. The neighborhood name, although only comprising a small area, helps to differentiate this particular Sheridan Road from the other parts of Sheridan Road in Lakeview, Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park (and into the North Shore suburbs). This area was once known colloquially as "Restaurant Row". The strip itself has been located at various times in either the 44th or 46th ward. It is distinguished by the Sheridan "L" Station as well as its proximity to Wrigley Field. Neither technically East, West or Central Lakeview, it is seen as the gateway between Uptown to the North and Lakeview to the South. The residential neighborhood organization is Lakeview East Neighbors Association and the business district has recently been enveloped by Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce.

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Lakeview belongs to fourChicago City Council wards, electing fouraldermen as representatives of these wards. Business ownerThomas Tunney represents the 44th Ward. Social workerJames Cappleman represents the 46th Ward andScott Waguespack represents the 32nd Ward. A small portion of the Lakeview community (which includes Lakeview H.S., the Graceland West neighborhood and a small part of the Southport Neighbors Association) is represented byMatt Martin of the 47th Ward.^[45] Tunney is the first openly gay alderman to serve in the Chicago City Council.^[46]

Lakeview residents are represented in theIllinois Senate bySara Feigenholtz of the state's 6th District.^[47] The residents also elect members of theIllinois House of Representatives:Ann Williams of the 11th District,Yoni Pizer of the 12th District andGreg Harris of the 34th District.^[48]

Lakeview is represented in theUnited States Congress by former Cook County CommissionerMike Quigley, elected from the 5th Congressional District, and by a former consumer rights advocate,Jan Schakowsky, elected from the 9th Congressional District.^[49]

Thirteen independent neighborhood organizations made up of residents serve as vehicles for direct neighborhood involvement and provide input to municipal and commercial leaders. The Lakeview Citizens' Council was formed in 1952 and is composed of: Belmont Harbor Neighbors, Central Lakeview Neighbors, East Lakeview Neighbors, Hamlin Park Neighbors, Hawthorne Neighbors, Sheil Park Neighbors, South East Lakeview Neighbors, South Lakeview Neighbors, Southport Neighbors Association, Triangle Neighbors, West DePaul Neighborhood Association and West Lakeview Association.^[50]

Two of these organizations do not all fall in the Lakeview Community Area. West DePaul Neighborhood Association is in the Lincoln Park Community Area and Hamlin Park Neighbors is in the North Center Community Area. All others fall within Lakeview's boundaries.

Another community group, the Lakeview Action Coalition, is composed of 44 institutional members. They include religious congregations of various denominations, social service agencies, banks, and merchants.^[51]

The Lake View community area has supported theDemocratic Party in the past several presidential elections. In the2016 presidential election, Lake View cast 40,357 votes forHillary Clinton and cast 5,646 votes forDonald Trump (82.75% to 11.58%).^[52] In the2012 presidential election, Lake View cast 32,004 votes forBarack Obama and cast 10,172 votes forMitt Romney (73.89% to 23.49%).^[53]

• Anshe Emet Synagogue
• Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation
• Broadway United Methodist Church
• Chabad of Lakeview
• Chicagoland Community Church
• Cornelia Avenue Baptist Church
• Destination Church Chicago
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Luke
• Grace Chicago Church
• Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
• Lakeview Lutheran Church
• Lakeview Presbyterian Church
• Messianic Congregation of Chicago
• Missio Dei
• New Life Community Church
• North-side Islamic Mosque of Chicago, Roscoe Masjid.
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church
• Resurrection Lutheran Church
• Saint Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church
• Saint Andrew Roman Catholic Church
• Saint Bonaventure Catholic Oratory (closed in 2024)^[54]
• Saint Peter's Episcopal Church
• Salvation Army^[55]
• Second Unitarian Church
• Temple Sholom
• Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ

Lakeview is an important area of the city for health and medicine as it is home to several hospitals and other related institutions. Despite the comparative affluence of the community area, Lakeview social services are also geared toward those needing affordable care, such as displaced youth living on the streets.

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center^[56] and Saint Joseph Hospital^[57] ofResurrection Health Care^[58] serve residents throughout Chicago and its suburbs.

TheHoward Brown Health Center, with several branch locations throughout Lakeview, provides health services for the gay, lesbian and transgender communities as well as for the poor. It offers specialized assistance inHIV,AIDS, domestic violence, therapy and various youth services such as the Broadway Youth Center and the PATH Program for HIV+ Youth.^[59]

Center on Halsted, formerly Horizons Community Services, is also a major source of comprehensive social services for the gay and lesbian community. TheIllinois Department of Public Health contracts the services of Center on Halsted for a telephone hotline for HIV, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.^[60]

Automobile parking is at a premium in Lakeview, especially during special events such asChicago Cubs home games atWrigley Field. Special residential parking permits are required for parking on some Lakeview streets; in commercial areas, limited metered parking is available. High-priced public parking lots are available for visitors and baseball fans but are hard to come by. Lakeview residents on blocks with parking restrictions may purchase temporary parking permit slips, available at aldermanic constituent offices, for guests invited to private residences.^[61]

A majority of Lakeview'spublic transportation needs are met by theChicago Transit Authority, which provides resident and visitor access to theRed Line,Purple Line andBrown Line services of theChicago Elevatedrailwayrapid transit. Lakeview is served by six L stations:Addison (Red Line),Belmont (Red, Brown, Purple Lines),Paulina (Brown Line),Sheridan (Red Line),Southport (Brown Line), andWellington (Brown and Purple Lines).^[62]

The Chicago Transit Authority also operates numerous bus routes in Lakeview, the busiest being those running along North Lake Shore Drive with express services to downtown Chicago, includingthe Loop, via NorthMichigan Avenue and itsMagnificent Mile. Bus routes entering and leaving Lakeview are 8 Halsted, 9 Ashland, 22 Clark, 36 Broadway, 77 Belmont, 134 Stockton–LaSalle Express, 135 Clarendon–LaSalle Express, 136 Sheridan–LaSalle Express, 143 Stockton–Michigan Express, 146 Inner Drive Express, 147 Outer Drive Express, 148 Clarendon–Michigan Express, 151 Sheridan, 152 Addison, and 156 LaSalle.^[63]

Private entities also offer many transportation services.I-GO andZipcar have several locations in Lakeview. Private companies offer trolley and bus services to certain destinations in the city from Lakeview.Taxi andlimousine services are plentiful in the Lakeview area, as well as non-traditional modes of transportation.Bicyclerickshaws can be found especially near Wrigley Field.Bike paths are becoming more and more available on some major streets as well as on some smaller side-streets as part of the City and 44th Ward's "greenway" bike path initiative.^[64] For those who prefer to walk or run, manicured walking and running paths are found throughout the community area, with a special path designed for Chicago Marathon training along the lakefront.

The Chicago Marathon training path curves around the Belmont Harbor marina, belonging to the Chicago Park District and managed by contracted companies. There are ten transient slips, several stalls, and finger dock, star dock, and other mooring facilities^[65] whereboats andyachts can be kept.^[66] It is the home of the Belmont Yacht Club.

• Theaters

Alamo Draft House

Athenaeum Theatre

Annoyance Theatre

ComedySportz

Briar Street Theater

The Music Box Theatre

The Playground Theater

Saint Sebastian Players

Stage 773

Theatre Wit

Under the Gun Theater

• Music venues

Metro Chicago

Vic Theatre

• Sports

Wrigley Field

Colleges and Universities

The Salvation Army - College for Officer Training^[67]

Residents are served byChicago Public Schools.^[68]

ZonedK-8 schools serving the area include Agassiz, Greeley, Hamilton, Ravenswood,Nettelhorst, Blaine, and Burley.^[69]

Most residents are zoned toLake View High School while some are zoned toLincoln Park High School.^[70]

The magnet schoolsInter-American Magnet School (IAMS) and Hawthorne Scholastic Academy are in Lakeview.^[71]

As one of the most populated community areas in the city of Chicago, Lakeview has many outlets for education. The John Merlo Branch^[72] of theChicago Public Library (CPL) houses one of the city's largest collections of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literature and large collections called the African American Heritage Collection, Chicago History Collection, Judaica Collection, and Large Print Collection. The Chicago Public Library classifies Merlo's Drama and Theatre Collection as very large in size compared to other branches.^[73] Although not in Lakeview proper, theConrad Sulzer Regional Library is host to a special Ravenswood–Lakeview Historical Collection.^[74] CPL also states that the Uptown Branch in Uptown provides services to people in Lake View.^[75]

In the Lakeview section ofLincoln Park, overlooking the intersection of North Lake Shore Drive, and West Addison Street is atotem pole ofKwanusila, theThunderbird of theKwagu'łNative American tribe. A plaque below the totem pole reads:

Kwanusila the Thunderbird, is an authenticKwagu'ł totem pole, carved in Red Cedar by Tony Hunt of Fort Rupert,British Columbia. The crests carved upon the totem pole represent Kwanusila the Thunderbird, a whale with a man on its back, and a sea monster. Many people do not realize that totem poles were only regionally used by First Nations along the coastal areas of British Columbia. Kwanusila is an exact replica of the original Kraft Lincoln Park totem pole, which was donated to the City of Chicago byJames L. Kraft on June 20, 1929, and which stood on the spot until October 9, 1985. It was discovered some years before the pole was moved, that a pole of this type did not exist in the types at the Provincial British Columbia Museum located in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Arrangements were made for a duplicate of the Chicago original to be made by the same Amerindian tribe that made the original. A request was made and approved by the Chicago Park District for the original totem pole which existed here to be presented back to British Columbia. Kwanusila is dedicated to the school children of Chicago, and was presented to the City of Chicago byKraft, Inc. on May 21, 1986.

Prominently visible fromLake Shore Drive, the totem pole is highlighted on Chicagocity maps as a place of interest, visited by residents and tourists alike. The totem pole stands in front of theJarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

A major portion of theBank of America (formerlyLaSalle Bank)Chicago Marathon, one of the largest road races in the world, winds through Lakeview East.^[76] Themarathon packs spectators onto the sidewalks of Lakeview to cheer race competitors. The route of the annualBike the Drive noncompetitivebicycle event, which allows participants to bike on Lake Shore Drive, also travel through Lakeview East.^[77]

Lakeview hosts many art events. Each spring, the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce supports gallery tour groups, taking participants through several area art galleries. September brings visitors to the Lakeview East Festival of the Arts on North Broadway between West Belmont Avenue and West Roscoe Street. More than 150 juried artists exhibit their works along with live entertainment, fine food and a variety of performers.

Paramount among Lakeview's events, drawing the largest crowds, is the annual Chicago Gay Pride Parade held on the last Sunday of each June along North Broadway, North Halsted Street, and West Diversey Parkway. In addition, for one weekend each August, the North Halsted Street corridor is closed off to automobile traffic for Northalsted Market Days, a popular street fair featuring nationally prominent bands and other entertainment. Food and merchandise booths line the temporary pedestrian thoroughfare.

Lakeview hosts a solemn vigil and march each October, gathering at the intersection of West Roscoe and North Halsted streets, in honor ofMatthew Shepard.^[78] Each year at the Matthew Shepard March Against Anti-Gay Hate, participants focus on several activist themes. In the past, they have marched against hate crimes and anti-gay social policy or have offered support for gay youth. As the event reflects its socially liberal agendas, political organizations such as theGreen Party andDemocratic Party have shown an increased presence. Socially liberalRepublicans also participate to a smaller degree.

Small but popular Lakeview events take place throughout the year. Each July, the Lakeview Garden Walk takes visitors on trolley tours and walks throughout the neighborhood to over eighty garden exhibits.^[79] Each exhibit is prepared and presented by individual residents of Lakeview. Once an event that focused on West Lakeview gardens, the exhibits now span the entire Lakeview area. Families with children are drawn to Nettelhorst Elementary School onEaster weekend for anegg hunt and visit with theEaster bunny. They return onHalloween weekend for a costume parade and story-telling.

Halloween is also the time for a major costume competition that takes place on North Halsted, from Belmont to Cornelia, with an annual theme and categories from children and pets to adult groups from humorous to scary.

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  Lake View Presbyterian Church serves the Presbyterian community.
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  Temple Sholom at North Lake Shore Drive and West Cornelia Avenue is a historic Jewish place of worship.
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  The landmark Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church serves as mother church of the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach.
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  Century Shopping Centre, converted from a movie theater in Lakeview East, is the largest retail center in the neighborhood.
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  Former 23rd District Chicago Police headquarters.
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  Lake View Lutheran Church serves the Lutheran community.
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  The Chicago Gay Pride Parade is held each June.
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  Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce advertises itself as home of Gay Games VII.
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  Lake View State Bank Building, home to the LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
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  Gerald Farinas Cornelia Avenue Bars

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