Truly a piece of history. These types of urban YMCA's provided housing opportunities for single adult males - a valuable, affordable, and vanishing commodity both in Chicago and across the nation. The fate of the Ravenswood YMCA & Residence is sadly similar to that of the Oak Park YMCA, LaGrange YMCA, Division Street YMCA, Roseland YMCA, Washington Park YMCA, Wabash YMCA, Homan YMCA, Loop YMCA and others. It is truly regratable that the YMCA organization is absondoning their housing mission and instead focusing on fitness centers aimed at up-scale or well-off community residents. As a not-for-profit, this places them in direct competition against taxable commercial ventures such as Bally's, Crunch, XSport, Lakeshore, East Bank, Golds, Lincoln Park AC and others.
Wilson Avenue Dept. Chicago Y.M.C.A., 1725 Wilson Avenue
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Truly a piece of history. These types of urban YMCA's provided housing opportunities for single adult males - a valuable, affordable, and vanishing commodity both in Chicago and across the nation. The fate of the Ravenswood YMCA & Residence is sadly similar to that of the Oak Park YMCA, LaGrange YMCA, Division Street YMCA, Roseland YMCA, Washington Park YMCA, Wabash YMCA, Homan YMCA, Loop YMCA and others.
It is truly regratable that the YMCA organization is absondoning their housing mission and instead focusing on fitness centers aimed at up-scale or well-off community residents. As a not-for-profit, this places them in direct competition against taxable commercial ventures such as Bally's, Crunch, XSport, Lakeshore, East Bank, Golds, Lincoln Park AC and others.
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