Shortly after I moved to the South Loop from Edgewater, someone asked me how it felt to not live in a neighborhood anymore.
The question came back to me as I read about the Chicago Neighborhood Project. The University of Chicago initiative invites people to draw their neighborhood borders as they perceive them. There are no right or wrong answers, reflecting the fluid nature of boundaries here, but the researchers are hoping to find more consensus about neighborhoods. You have until December 31 to take the survey at https://chicago-neighborhoods.com.