August 22, 2022

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There are few sacred spaces in the city, few areas that draw everybody, few spots that have literal oral histories written about them, but the corner of Clark & Belmont probably qualifies, despite its acting as stand-in for the precise sort of urban change that we all hate. It’s four blocks south of Wrigley Field, adjacent to the center of Boystown, on your way from the Red Line to Broadway and the lake, and so if you live anywhere around East Lakeview you are absolutely going to walk through this intersection multiple times a day. It is on the cusp of four different micro-neighborhoods. Three major bus routes run through or near it.