Rogers Park, Illinois: A Community Assessment.
             This is a summary of the findings of a community assessment of Rogers Park. The
             purpose of this assessment is to determine the actual and potential health needs of the
             community. Conclusions related to real and potential health problems were drawn based
             on an analysis of the physical environment, and social facilities, communication,
             educational facilities, shopping facilities, and the local health care facilities of Rogers Park.
             Data was collected by tour around the neighborhood, personal observations, assessment of
             local publications, and by an analysis of selected statistical and demographic data. Specific
             statistical data included age distribution, annual family income by race, highest level of
             income completed, infant mortality rates, reportable
             illnesses, and the leading causes of death for the Rogers Park Community.
             A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF ROGERS PARK.
             Rogers Park is a small community that is located approximately ten mile north of
             Chicago's Loop, at the northeast city limits. The Pottawattomie Indians first ceded the
             land in 1821. The first white settler to arrive was an Irish immigrant named Phillip Rogers,
             whom the community in now named after. The development of Rogers Park began with a
             glacier that created the ridge that now gives Ridge Avenue its name (Chicago Sun-Times,
             2000). The ridge was a raised shelf of land that extended west from the lakeshore. Ridge
             Road was the only route available at this time that permitted travel north or south through
             the Roger Park area. Ridge Road provided routes for mail delivery, trade travel, and
             stagecoach travels (Local Community Fact Book, 1990). The
             combination of the elevated marshy land, and easy access to textiles and other goods,
             encouraged Irish, Scottish, German, and English farmers to settle in along Ridge Road to
             After Phillip Rogers's death in 1856, a substantial amount ...