[Magdalen] Chicago neighborhoods

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/18/2015 10:09:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
scottknitter at gmail.com writes:

The Loop  is now one of the nation's largest college campuses in terms of
student  residents. State Street has come alive again in the past 15  
years.>>>>>>>>>>>
 
That's good to hear.  I recall, with the supremacy of  upper  Michigan
Avenue as THE place to shop in the Loop, that State Street ("that  great
street") was getting a little seedy.
 
I spent all eight Thanksgivings I was at UW-Madison with my Aunt  Helen
in Chicago, and I remember the thrill of cruising around the big  stores
on State Street on Thanksgiving evening to see the animated windows
that opened at that time for the season.  Then the mobs downtown  on
Black Friday!  It was an adventure.  Chicago is the real Capital  of the
Midwest - The City that Works.
 
Here in both Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, the several  colleges/universities
have also revitalized the otherwise dying downtowns.  There are 
Marywood and U. Scranton in that city, and King's College (run by the
same Order as Notre Dame) and Wilkes-University in Wilkes-Barre. 
These schools are gradually rebuilding much of the downtown areas.
 
Both cities have Penn State branches, and various other small  colleges
(such as College Misericordia) in the suburbs as well.  
 
Without these institutions of higher learning, the downtowns would  be
down and out.
 
 
 
David Strang.