Ukrainian Village, Chicago

The Ukrainian Village is west of the center (Downtown) -city suburb of Chicago, which is bounded by the streets of Division Street to the north, Grand Avenue on the south, Western Avenue on the west and ladies Avenue to the east. It belongs to the district municipality of West Town and is under the administration of the 32nd Ward.

The Ukrainian Village had developed in recent decades to a safe residential area of the middle class. Despite socioeconomic changes in the south and west adjacent predominantly industrial districts, kept the Ukrainian residential development, also due to the strong positions of the Orthodox churches in the district, their character. Although Chicago's neighborhoods are changing constantly, especially the neighboring districts like Wicker Park or Bucktown were heavily gentrified in the last decade, significant still more than 10,000 Ukrainians, Poles and other Eastern European populations, the Ukrainian Village home.

In the Ukrainian district alongside representatives of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and the Ukrainian National Museum and the Ukrainian Cultural Center.

Other attractions are the Catholic churches Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian as well as the Cathedral of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. Also worth seeing is the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral.

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• District ( Chicago)
• Culture ( Ukraine)