Ukrainian Village District

The district encompasses the oldest part of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, which was developed beginning in the 1880s and lasting into the 1920s.

In 1886, near the corner of Haddon Street and Damen Avenue, a group of distinctive brick workers cottages were begun by William D. Kerfoot (the first real estate developer to reestablish his business after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871).

It contains an uninterrupted collection of solidly built workers cottages, single-family homes, and two- and three-flat residential buildings.

[3] A second Ukrainian Village District Extension was designated on April 11, 2007 with two distinct areas.

Notably, although the congregation of the Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral at 2238 West Rice Street consented to the proposed designation, the congregation of Saint Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral at 2252–2258 West Cortez Street did not; as a result the church building at the northeast corner of Cortez and Oakley, constructed ca.