Englewood, Chicago - Definition

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Englewood, Chicago, Illinois

Englewood is much more of a historic city than a city of today and the modern world. With only a five minute drive from the chicago loop you can arrive in Englewood and visit the 3,000 inhabitants. The original ihabitants of Englewood were Mascoutin indians. In 1840, Englewood was officially documented as habital land to the United States Government Land Office in Chicago. In the 1850's and 60's as chicago was becoming a city of railroad tracks and an economic powerplant, Englewood was just another supporting neighborhood. In 1871, when the Geat Chicago fire destroyed 28 miles of chicago residents moved to the outskirts and Englewood was filling with people. From then until now Englewood has gone through the suffering from the great depression and racial discrimination. Nowadays, Englewood is a vacant town with buildings falling apart and 43% percent of the residents living below the poverty line. Over 700 murders have occured there in only 10 years. Englewood is slowly gentrifying. Englewood is likely to have a recovery from it's current state. The future of Englewood looks bright.