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Boystown, Chicago Lakeview, also spelled Lake View, is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. Lakeview is located in the city's North Side. It is bordered by West Diversey Parkway on the south, West Irving Park Road on the north, North Ravenswood A ...
, a gay village in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA * Boystown, County Wicklow, a civil parish in County Wicklow, Ireland *
Boys Town, Nebraska Boys Town is a village in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 410 at the 2020 census. Boys Town is an enclave and a suburb of Omaha. The village of Boys Town was established in 1917 as the headquarters of Father Flanaga ...
, a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, USA, and the headquarters of the Boys Town organization *
Boy's Town (prostitution) Boy's Town, (or "La Zona" (en: the Zone) as it is known in Spanish), is a commercial district in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving primarily as a "zone of tolerance" in the city for legal prostitution, and also a variety ...
, a district in a Mexican border city that is formally designated for legalized prostitution *
Boyztown Boyztown is a gay red-light district in Pattaya, Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , ...
, a gay red-light district in Pattaya, Thailand * Boy's Town, Wayanad, India


Schools

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Boys' Town (Engadine) --> , motto_translation= , city= Engadine, Sydney , state= New South Wales , country= Australia , coordinates= , schooltype= Non-denominational special school, selective, single-sex secondary school , religious_affiliation = Roman C ...
, a residential school for boys with behavioural issues in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia *
Boys Town Jerusalem Boys Town Jerusalem ( he, קרית נוער ירושלים, ''Kiryat Noar Yerushalayim'') is an Orthodox Jewish educational institution in Jerusalem. Founded in 1949, it houses over 850 boys aged 12 to 20 on its Bayit Vegan campus, and provides o ...
, an Orthodox Jewish orphanage and educational institution in Jerusalem, Israel


Sports

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Boys' Town F.C. Boys' Town Football Club is a Jamaican football club based in Kingston, which currently plays in the Jamaica National Premier League. The team is based in Kingston, Jamaica, with their home ground at the Collie Smith Drive Sporting Complex, w ...
, a Jamaican football club. *
Boys' Town Cricket Club Boys' Town Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the Trenchtown neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica. The club developed from the Boys' Town institution, a community organisation founded by Hugh Sherlock, a Methodist minister and writer of the Jam ...
, a Jamaican football club in the capital Kingston.


Media

* ''Boys Town'' (film), a 1938 film about Father Flanagan and his work, starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, with Henry Hull and Leslie Fenton * ''Boystown'' (film), an unrelated 2007 Spanish comedy film


Organizations and commerce

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Boys Town (organization) Boys Town, officially Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, is a non-profit organization based in Boys Town, Nebraska, dedicated to caring for children and families. History Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, as an orphanage for boys. Origin ...
, an organization dedicated to the housing and education of at-risk children, founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan * Boystown (website), an illegal child pornography website


See also

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Girls Town (disambiguation) Girls Town may refer to: * ''Girls Town'' (1959 film), American film * ''Girls Town'' (1996 film), American film {{disamb ...
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