Logan Square announced its arrival on the cocktail and dining maps a decade ago and has been consolidating ever since. Palmer Square Boulevard — a formal, tree-lined median radiating from the Illinois Centennial Monument — gives the neighbourhood an architectural dignity that its Scandinavian immigrant founders built and its current residents inherited. The greystone mansions along the boulevard are some of the handsomest residential buildings on the Northwest Side.
Milwaukee Avenue, running diagonally through the grid, is the commercial strip: Scofflaw, The Whistler, Revolution Brewing, Gaslight Coffee, and a density of restaurants that has made Logan Square the Northwest Side's answer to the West Loop. The Logan Square Farmers Market on Sundays fills the boulevard with local produce and prepared food. The 606 trail's western terminus is here, connecting Logan Square to Wicker Park and Bucktown along the elevated rail corridor.
The neighbourhood is gentrifying rapidly, and the longtime Latino residents who gave Logan Square its working-class character are being displaced by the same forces that the cocktail bars and restaurants represent.