[TABLE 6]

RETAIL SALES IN SELECTED SOUTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY AREAS, 1948
Stores, sales, and share of city sales and population

Archer Corridor:

			Armour	Bridge-	McKin.	Brtn.	Archer	Garfield
	Statistic	Square	port	Park	Park	Heights	Ridge
	----------	------	------	------	------	------	--------
	1. Ttl.
	stores		  250	  753	  279	  609	   86	   97

	2. Ttl.
	sales		 10.8	117.3	 14.6	 30.7	  4.0	  6.2

	3. % of
	city sales	  0.3	  3.3	  0.4	  0.9	  0.1	  0.2

	4. % of	
	city pop.	  0.6	  1.3	  0.5	  1.1	  0.2	  0.4

	5. Ttl.
	popul'n		23294	46070	18813	41345	8675	12900

	6. Sq.
	mileage		1.003	2.113	1.647	2.894	2.195	4.218


South/southwest:

			Fuller	New	Engle-	Chicago	Gage
	Statistic	Square	City	wood	Lawn	Park
	------------	------	-----	-----	------	-----
	1. Ttl.
	stores		  178	 1179	 1079	  568	  319

	2. Ttl.
	sales		  9.9	 70.3	150.2	 69.2	 16.8

	3. % of
	city sales	  0.3	  2.0	  4.2	  1.9	  0.5

	4. % of
	city pop.	  0.5	  2.1	  2.6	  1.4	  0.8

	5. Ttl.
	popul'n		17174	75917	94134	50211	30149

	6. Sq.
	mileage		0.723	4.981	3.068	3.528	2.201

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Notes:

Expansion of category abbreviations:
 1. Total number of stores, 1948.
 2. Total retail sales in millions of dollars, 1948.
 3. Percent of city's retail sales outside of the Loop, 1948.
 4. Percent of city's population, 1950.
 5. Total population of community area, 1950.
 6. Square mileage of community area.

Source: Local Community Fact book for Chicago, 1950. Community areas 34,
 37, 56-61, 66, 68. See bibliography for publication information.