A: Store types in the 35th and Halsted business district Types and number of stores according to department of commerce (SIC) codes (a) | |||
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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 |
B: South side business district comparison Bridgeport business district compared with those of New City and Englewood (b) | ||||
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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.