The Lakeview Historic District is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

on the north side of the city of

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. The district was listed on the U.S.

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on September 15, 1977. The district, which is in southeastern Lakeview Township about north of the

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, is primarily in the Lake View community but also includes a small part of the

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to the south. A boundary expansion on May 16, 1986, added a one-block section on the south side of

Belmont Avenue Belmont Avenue (3200 N) is a major east–west street in Chicago and several of its suburbs. It begins in the east near Belmont Harbor and is a key commercial street in Lakeview. West of the North Branch of the Chicago River, it passes throug ...

, between Orchard and

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s. Land use in the historic district is primarily multi-family residential. Streets are laid out on a rectangular grid that is broken by the short jogs in some of the streets and crossed on the diagonal by Clark Street.

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Historic districts in Chicago North Side, Chicago Chicago Landmarks Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois {{Chicago-geo-stub