Surprise! I’m talking about 60707, which is part Elmwood Park and part Chicago! Not every zip code in Chicago starts with 606, but it used to when it started out. Also, there were a lot fewer zips, and they were far more numerically clustered. It’s kind of like when I was growing up, the (312) area code was for all of Chicago’s phone numbers and several suburbs – even as far north as in Antioch on the Illinois/Wisconsin border! (Am I showing my age yet?)
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And too, part of 60635 mentioned in the old PSA above became 60707, but it’s not as weird as you think.
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Here’s another piece of trivia:
As I mentioned, the zip codes aren’t the only definers that have gone through many changes over the years. Our phone numbers have, too!
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And now you’ll know even more interesting info from my neighborhood snapshot below! Check out and compare some of these facts and figures below from areas I know well, harvested from MRED (Midwest Real Estate Data) on May 13th, 2020. With 77 official neighborhoods in Chicago, plus dozens, if not hundreds, of surrounding suburbs (depending on who you ask), there’s a whole lot more info readily available.
In you have any questions on the information provided below, or you would like to learn about an another area, city or suburbs, please give me a call! 773-697-4474
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
Data harvested from MRED on May 13, 2020
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Lori Dake, an Illinois Licensed Broker
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