Wicker Park is a long-established neighborhood community located in Chicago with historic boundaries running from Bloomingdale Street to the north, Division Street to the south, Ashland Avenue to the east, and Western Avenue to the west.

Wicker Park includes The Wicker Park District which is a historic district in the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is the neighborhood bounded by Bell Avenue, Caton Street, Leavitt Street, Potomac Avenue and Chicago 'L' tracks. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 12, 1991.

A 2009 Chicago Tribune description of Wicker Park:

“The newest immigrants to Wicker Park are diverse by occupation, mixed by levels of education and ethnicity, single or married, but almost always young. As were the Germans then Poles, Puerto Ricans then Mexicans that settled the ‘suburb within the city’ throughout the 20th Century.”

“Historic homes from the German beer barons of the 1890s are still occupied on Hoyne and Pierce, just southwest of North and Damen. Some cottages and bungalows remain on the side streets, but it is the mid-rise developments and townhouses that lure today's home buyers.”

Here’s what another writer has said about Wicker Park:

“Throughout its long existence, Wicker Park has managed to do something remarkable for an urban neighborhood. It has changed with the times, but still remains the same.”

“Pride is one of the principal factors in Wicker Park's long-term endurance. Whether it was a modest worker's cottage or a thundering brick mansion, the distinctive older buildings of the community were always given something extra by the people who built them - whether it was an ornamental turret, a profusion of wooden scrollwork, or ornamental iron railings.”

“Another factor is respect. Wicker Park has shown amazing restraint in resisting the temptation to change its unique identity.”

“Anybody visiting Wicker Park cannot help but be impressed by its tree-lined streets and picturesque buildings. But to people in the know, the essence of Wicker Park is in the people who have called it, and continue to call it, HOME.”

Timothy J. Samuelson, Cultural Historian
City of Chicago

from Wicker Park From 1673 Thru 1929 and Walking Tour Guide