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The Uptown neighborhood has for decades been a true melting pot comprised of nearly every ethnic group. This cultural diversity adds a special flavor to the area as traditions and ethnic mores are clearly on display on nearly every street corner.
Uptown is also renowned for its social activism. Many groups are present within the neighborhood, and their aim is to improve the daily lives of many disadvantaged and displaced individuals. As with most other Lakefront neighborhoods, Lake Michigan and the park surrounding its shores are alive with activities such as jogging, bike and roller-blading paths, tennis courts and lots of greenery.
The restaurants, bars, delis and shops clearly reflect the aforementioned ethnic diversity, and diners from outside Uptown often venture there to sample the cuisine of distant lands. Today, Uptown is a truly cosmopolitan place.
The housing is Uptown consists mainly of highrises on the lakefront, single family homes on large lots, vintage apartment buildings and a vast array of new construction condominiums, single family home and town homes.
An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, correctly, on a single level without a stair. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex, flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. In Scotland, it is called a block of flats or, if it is a traditional sandstone building, a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier, by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).In some parts of the world, the word apartment refers to a new purpose-built self-contained residential unit in a building, whereas the word flat means a converted self-contained unit in an older building. An industrial, warehouse, or commercial space converted to an apartment is commonly called a loft, although some modern lofts are built by design. An apartment consisting of the top floor of a high-rise apartment building can be called a penthouse.Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/