NEAR WEST SIDE/UNIVERSITY VILLAGE

North Boundary: 1200 S Roosevelt
South Boundary: 600 S Harrison
East Boundary: 800 W Halsted
West Boundary: 1600 W Ashland

Includes:
EAST PILSEN
FULTON RIVER DISTRICT (SOUTH)
GREEKTOWN
HEART OF CHICAGO (NORTH)
ILLINOIS MEDICAL DISTRICT
LITTLE ITALY
NEAR WEST SIDE
TRI-TAYLOR
UNIVERSITY VILLAGE
WEST LOOP
WEST LOOP GATE
WEST TOWN (SOUTH)

Get to Know University Village
University Village, on the Near West Side, is undergoing an exciting period of development and rejuvenation. The ongoing, positive influence of University of Illinois at Chicago has dramatically changed the face of the area.
Today, urban dwellers who want to live and play close to work are converging on the area, attracted by its amazing location and excellent opportunity for growth. It has becoming a dynamic and desirable residential district, complete with a beautiful, park-like environment.

What to do in University Village
As University Village brushes up against Little Italy and Greektown, it is full of multi-cultural, artistic, family-owned restaurants and shops. Additionally, many cosmopolitan wine bars, restaurants and boutiques are sprouting up to add Chicago’s brand of chic to the area.
University Village is an easy 10-minute commute or drive to Chicago’s Loop, giving excellent access to Chicago’s financial district, world-class restaurants, theaters and shops.
Just as other communities of the city are being renewed, nearby Maxwell Street is being reborn. The famous street market now has a more permanent home with indoor/outdoor market stalls and ample parking.
University Village’s Distinctive Housing
University Village is where luxury townhomes and loft conversions intermix with renovated vintage rowhouses and two-flats. As it is growing in popularity, many consider it to be an excellent place to live and invest.

In recent years, areas west of the Loop have experienced a boom of activity fueled by a new generation of urban dwellers who want to live and play close to work. Older neighborhoods have been revitalized and new neighborhoods created from former industrial parks and warehouse districts. Luxury townhomes and loft conversions now intermix with renovated vintage rowhouses and two-flats. Stretching from the Chicago River to Western Avenue, the Near West Side offers a patchwork of small, diverse neighborhoods, where trendy boutiques and eateries blend with second- and third-generation family-owned shops and ethnic restaurants.

The West Loop, in particular has been the focus of hundreds of millions of dollars in new high-rise office buildings and residential towers that co-exist with colorful open-air produce markets and the lively Greek restaurants and nightclubs along Halsted Street. The high-rise complexes offer a full range of conveniences from shopping to private health clubs.

Nearby is West Loop Gate, an area once home to Chicago’s textile mill industry. Today, the area offers hundreds of warehouse-style buildings converted to office and residential lofts, often with upscale restaurants and boutiques at street level. Residents can walk to the Loop and are five minutes from all major expressways circling the city.

Farther south is University Village. It draws its name from the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, which in the late 1960s was carved out of an area west of the Loop and south of the Eisenhower Expressway. The neighborhood occupies the area between the campus and the city’s West Side medical complexes. Flush with new townhouse developments and renovated rowhouses, brownstones and turn-of-the-century mansions, the neighborhood is home to university professors and medical researchers, local shopkeepers and urban professionals--all of whom enjoy the low-density living, excellent schools and nearby rapid transit service.

Due west of University Village is Tri-Taylor. Awarded landmark status by the city to preserve its essential old-world flavor, this charming European-style community is characterized by tree-lined streets of restored 19th-century rowhouses and two- and three-flats, as well as new townhouses and single-family homes. Walking distance from the medical complex, this neighborhood also adjoins one of the city’s high-tech research parks.