Chicago Guide
Rogers Park and the North Shore
Nearly ten miles north of the Loop at the northeast corner of the city, the tree-lined, residential neighbourhood of Rogers Park is Chicago's most diverse enclave, with more than eighty languages spoken among the area's sixty thousand-odd residents. Home to the Jesuit-affiliated Loyola University, active Indian and Pakistani communities and an increasing number of young professionals claiming condos along the city's last stretch of affordable lakeside housing, this neighbourhood welcomes a hodge-podge of ethnic and economic backgrounds – though not many visitors, as there is little for tourists to see or do.
Cross north over Juneway Terrace and you've entered the entirely different world of the North Shore, a series of affluent lakeside suburbs that are home to a mix of CEOs, college professors and wealthy financiers. From the college town Evanston (home of Northwestern University) to picturesque Wilmette with its breathtaking Baha'í Temple, the streets of these idyllic suburbs are lined with beautiful houses surrounded by manicured lawns.