Rogers Park, Chicago facts for kids

Rogers Park is one of the 77 Chicago community areas on the far north side of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois and is also the name of the Chicago neighborhood that constitutes most of the community area.

Rogers Park is located nine miles north of the Cook County Courthouse in downtown Chicago. It is bounded by the city of Evanston along Juneway Terrace and Howard Street to the north, Ridge Boulevard to the west, Devon Avenue and the Edgewater neighborhood to the south, and Lake Michigan to the east.

The neighborhood just to the west, West Ridge, was part of Rogers Park until the 1890s.

Images for kids

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  Chicago Public Library, Rogers Park Branch

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  North Sheridan corridor by Loyola University

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  The Emil Bach House (1915), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.