Roscoe Village
Transportation Pick up the Brown Line at Lincoln Avenue, a few blocks east of the neighborhood; the Kennedy Expressway is about two miles west.
Schools Test scores at Audubon Elementary surpass the city average by 15 points.
Shopping Funky shops and restaurants line Roscoe Street, selling everything from healthy meals to hip baby clothes. Plus: Retro on Roscoe, the annual two-day fest that shows off the neighborhood, starts August 7th.
On their usual circuit through the neighborhood, Kristen and Victor Ramirez and their two small children have a lot to do. They need to get their feet wet in the swimming pool at Hamlin Park; stop to see the penguin statue outside Suckers Candy; drop in at Glam to Go and a couple of other Roscoe Street boutiques; and finish with some sugar cookies from the old-timey Rudy’s Bakery. The family’s list of stops around their Roscoe Village neighborhood is testament to how a onetime tavern strip whose trolley line led into the legendary Riverview amusement park has been transformed into a cheery, magnetic neighborhood for young urban families.
Schools Test scores at Audubon Elementary surpass the city average by 15 points.
Shopping Funky shops and restaurants line Roscoe Street, selling everything from healthy meals to hip baby clothes. Plus: Retro on Roscoe, the annual two-day fest that shows off the neighborhood, starts August 7th.
On their usual circuit through the neighborhood, Kristen and Victor Ramirez and their two small children have a lot to do. They need to get their feet wet in the swimming pool at Hamlin Park; stop to see the penguin statue outside Suckers Candy; drop in at Glam to Go and a couple of other Roscoe Street boutiques; and finish with some sugar cookies from the old-timey Rudy’s Bakery. The family’s list of stops around their Roscoe Village neighborhood is testament to how a onetime tavern strip whose trolley line led into the legendary Riverview amusement park has been transformed into a cheery, magnetic neighborhood for young urban families.