| Number and Percent of land uses (a) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type use | Number | Percent |
| Purely Residential | 5177 | 69.9 |
| Residential with business | 1103 | 14.9 |
| All Residential (b) | 6820 | 84.8 |
| Purely Commercial (c) | 258 | 3.5 |
| Temporary Business uses | 19 | 0.3 |
| Purely Industrial | 773 | 10.4 |
| Mixed Industrial and commercial | 2 | * |
| Public and Institutional | 75 | 1.0 |
| Total land uses (excepting vacant) | 7407 | 100.0 |
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Notes:
*. Figure of less than one-tenth of one percent.
a. This is strictly in terms of the number of land uses and does not take
land area into account.
b. Does not include the residential with business category.
c. All residential includes residential and residential with business
categories; this particular category must be removed to reach 100
percent useage figures.
Source:
Works Project Administration, Housing in Chicago Communities
(1940), vol. 60, p.9. See bibliography for publication information.