Golden Ghetto

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Golden Ghetto is an informal name for a neighborhood north and south of Devon Avenue on the North Side of Chicago stretching from about 2200 west to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at about 3200 west. It is bounded on the north by Warren Park and Pratt Avenue and on the south by Peterson Avenue. It acquired its name from the thriving Jewish community there from about 1930 to the mid-1970s. That community began to drift into the suburbs in the 1960s, and the neighborhood began to be home to South Asians and Russian Jews from about that time. The heyday of the area is the topic of Adam Langer's Crossing California, told from the perspective of the second-generation residents during their middle school and teenage years.