What Lakeview is actually like to live in. Courtyard six-flats, the Wrigley Field effect on daily life, why so many people arrive for one year and stay for nine, and the late-August week when the whole neighborhood turns over at once.

Covers ZIP codes 60613 and 60657.

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What Lincoln Park is actually like to live in. Over 1,200 acres of lakefront park with a free zoo, the DePaul calendar that drives the whole neighborhood every August and May, and a housing stock that runs from narrow brownstone walk-ups to high-rises on the Drive.

Covers ZIP code 60614.

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The Gold Coast is the one Chicago neighborhood where your move date isn't entirely your decision. Freight elevator windows that exclude weekends, limestone mansions on Astor with staircases built for a different era of furniture, and why January through March is the clearest stretch of the year here.

Covers ZIP codes 60610 and 60611.

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What Old Town is actually like to live in. Carriage houses hidden behind main-street addresses, 1870s two-flats sitting next to 1990s townhomes on the same block, the split personality of Wells Street versus the side streets, and alleys that vary from truck-friendly to impassable.

Covers ZIP codes 60610 and 60614.

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What Andersonville is actually like to live in. Swedish roots and a ninety-year-old tavern, the Clark Street farmers market that owns Saturday mornings from June through October, and century-old pine stairs with risers steeper than anything built since.

Covers ZIP code 60640.

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Charlie Chaplin made films at Essanay Studios on Argyle before Hollywood was Hollywood, and the Green Mill has been running since 1907. Plus the pre-war courtyard complexes so large the walk from truck to front door is the part nobody plans for.

Covers ZIP code 60640.

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Walk three blocks in Edgewater and go from a twelve-story tower with a freight elevator to a brick two-flat with a gangway. Two housing markets side by side, and which one you land in changes everything about your first day.

Covers ZIP code 60660.

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The Brown Line runs elevated straight through the middle of Ravenswood, so train noise is part of the deal. In exchange you get one of the easiest neighborhoods in the city to move in and out of, plus loft conversions in the old industrial corridor.

Covers ZIP codes 60613 and 60625.

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