[Magdalen] Chicago neighborhoods

[Judy Fleener]

And the University of Chicago helps to maintain a vibrant and integrated
neighborhoods in Hyde park and Kenwood.


On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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>
> 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.
>
>
>


-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan