A Chicago Jewish neighborhood's birth, decline and rebirth
The Jewish population boomed in West Rogers Park in the 1930s as people moved from older and more crowded Jewish neighborhoods to the south and west.
The Jewish Neighborhood Development Council has pushed through a number of urban renewal projects in West Rogers Park, such as turning an abandoned parking lot, left, into a park.(photo credit: JTA/COURTESY OF HOWARD RIEGER)ByBEN SALES/JTA
