|
A: Store types in the 35th and Halsted business district Types and number of stores according to department of commerce (SIC) codes (a) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting/bookkeeping | 1 | Library | 1 |
| Archit./eng.services | 1 | Liquor stores | 4 |
| Banks | 1 | Meat markets | 1 |
| Barbers | 3 | Men's/boys' clothing | 5 |
| Children/infant's wear | 4 | Millinary stores | 1 |
| Cigar shops | 1 | Movie houses | 1 |
| Cobblers/repair | 2 | Optomotrists | 3 |
| Confectionery | 1 | Power launderies | 3 |
| Corset and lingerie | 2 | Real estate | 2 |
| Currency handlers | 1 | Retail bakeries | 1 |
| Department stores | 3 | Shoe stores | 6 |
| Drug and proprietary | 1 | Supermarkets | 2 |
| Eateries | 6 | Taverns | 3 |
| Furniture stores | 1 | Vacant | 9 |
| Gift/novelty stores | 3 | Variety stores | 4 |
| Hardware stores | 1 | Women's wear | 5 |
| Hosiery | 1 | Other | 4 |
| Jewelry stores | 1 | ||
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B: South side business district comparison Bridgeport business district compared with those of New City and Englewood (b) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistic | Bridgeport | New City | Englewood | |
| Sales ($ Millions) | 20.0 | 32.8 | 88.3 | |
| Community sales share | 52% | 44% | 63% | |
| Payroll ($ Millions) | 2.0 | 4.3 | 12.1 | |
| Employees | 369 | 1579 | 4034 | |
| Number of SIC types | 38 | 38 | 61 | |
| Establishments | 91 | 88 | 253 | |
| Frontage (feet) | 2450 | 2940 | 8055 | |
| Floor area (1000 sq.ft) | 205 | 317 | 799 | |
| Shopping trips | 9672 | 10239 | 27095 | |
| Shopping goods | population served | 213000 | 133570 | 353220 |
| trade area served (sq.mi.) | 6.3 | 8.0 | 15.5 | |
| Convenience goods | population served | 3500 | 31600 | 69720 |
| trade area served (sq.mi.) | 2.0 | 1.6 | 2.1 | |
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Notes:
a. Standard Industrial Classification code categories; common names used
here may differ.
b. Districts are: Bridgeport--35th/Halsted; New City--47th/Ashland;
Englewood--63rd/Halsted. As a point of reference, New City's business
(or 'shopping center') ranked sixth of such Chicago centers in 1939,
eighth in 1945, and eighteenth (of sixty) in 1948.
Source:
Chicago Commercial Reference Handbook (1963), pp. 2-3, 42-3, 62-3.
See bibliography for publication information.