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Bronzeville

The appeal
Join a cultural renaissance: The neighborhood is dedicated to re-establishing its position as a cultural hub of Chicago. Buyers here can expect a wealth of music, art and culinary hot spots to grow up around them.

The inside scoop
According to Tawnya McVicker, a real-estate agent with the McVicker Group, Bronzeville is one of Chicago’s fastest-growing neighborhoods. “Whereas other neighborhoods are saturated, Bronzeville is a clean canvas because there are so many vacant lots,” she says. “Here you can have a really beautiful house and still have proximity to the city [center].”

Once the stomping grounds of the African-American elite, including Langston Hughes and Miles Davis, Bronzeville is building toward becoming a cultural mecca again. In the past five years, several new establishments have broken ground in Bronzeville, including the Second City Training Center, swanky restaurant/jazz bar Blu 47 and the Negro League Café, a museum-restaurant hybrid honoring the African-American baseball league.

What $250K will get you
Buyers can find a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home at that price. New housing developments are cropping up everywhere, including Lakeview Club, a 240-unit condo project with an adjacent 70-acre park, and the Oakwood Shores project, a 90-acre megadevelopment of nearly 3,000 condos, townhouses and single-family homes.

HOT PROPERTY

Grove Place, 37th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue: $179,900–$329,900

The first stage in the Oakwood Shores project, this 83-unit condo-townhouse development rests footsteps from the lake. Each of these one-, two- or three-bedroom units features track lighting, marble or granite countertops and hardwood floors, as well as access to on-site fitness facilities, storage units, private garage and outdoor terraces. 773-538-0001; thearchesatoakwoodshores.com.