Community Walk 1

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Assignment

By:

Jackie Dodds

Kyriako Anastasiadis

Housing Types

Businesses History of Austin Crime Rates Community Resources
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Welcome to Howe School of

Excellence!

df Located inChicagos Northwest Austin

community

Largest (by population) ofthe city's 77 officially

defined community areas

Address

Howe School of Excellence

720 North Lorel Avenue

Chicago, IL 60644

Phone

773-534-6060
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Back to School

CommunityBBQ at Howe!


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Housing


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Housing Information

With Austin's population boom in the early 20thcentury, the architectural landscape completely

changed. Large frame homes were the norm in Austin

in the late 19th century, but they would soon be

surrounded by brick two-flats, small frame housesand ubiquitous brick story-and-a-half bungalows

(north Austin) and rowhouses, corner apartment

blocks, and brick three-flats and courtyard apartment

buildings (south Austin).

Many students enrolled at Howe School of Excellenceare currently living with their families in one of the

homeless shelters located near the school.


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Businesses


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Business Information

Designed as a residential neighborhood, there are not alarge number of stores in the Austin area

Many of the small, family-run stores that did exist leftthe South Austin area during the time of the "whiteflight" in the 1960s and 1970s. However, along the

North Avenue at the western edge of Austin (adjacent to

suburban Oak Park), there is a small shopping area

with mainly clothing retailers.

The major industries in North Austin are education,health, social services, manufacturing, and retail trade.


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Austin's History:

Austin grew rapidly in the early 20th century, attractinga variety of European immigrants, including Germans,

Scandinavians, Irish, Italians and Greeks.

Austin was nearly an all-white community (99.8%) upuntil the 1960s when riots, "blockbusting" and otherevents began to change the neighborhood's

demographics.

By the year 2000, African-Americans made up 90.2% of

Austin's population. Currently, Austin is recognized as

one of the most crime-ridden areas in Chicago. The

neighborhood is plagued by illegal drug markets.


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Austin's Crime Rates:

Currently, Austin is recognized as one of the most crime-ridden areas in

Chicago.

-Drug trafficking drives the area's crime: attracts drug buyers from the

suburbs, Wisconsin and Indiana. Battles over drug territory lead to gang

violence

-8 of the 80 murders in Chicago this year have been in Austin

-300 residents return to Austin from prison each month

Demographics:

Black 89.7%

White 4.82%

Hispanic 4.12%

Asian 0.55%

Other 0.88%


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Community

Resources

Austin Town Hall and Park

Rhema Wood Church


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Austin's Community Resources:

* North Austin Public Library: Austin Health

Center:

-Features reading garden and new renovations -Walk in services available

-Runs mainly on donations

Interfaith House:

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Nonprofit Organization

-Homeless shelter

that teaches

healthy living and

lifestyle tips

New Mom's Center


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So...why does this information

affect us at teachers?

* Developing an awareness of our school's community willhelp us become more aware of our student's cultural

identities; cultural identities of students are

constructed from their experiences and where they

come from!

*By knowing the poverty and crime rates of North Austin-

we are able to gauge a better understanding of what

our students go through on a daily basis and the factors

that may affect their learning.

*More than 24% of Austin residents lived below the poverty

line, so it it critical as teachers that we are aware of

what our student's living conditions are like.


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Sources

http://www.uicni.org/page.php?section=neigh

borhoods&subsection=austin

http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages

/93.html

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Pratt-Johnson-CrossCultural.html
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