[TABLE 9]

BRIDGEPORT: RETAIL STORES, PRINCIPAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, 1958

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 retail		4
	Jewelry stores		1


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		   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 suc Chicago centers in 1939,
    eight 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.