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Andersonville is a neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, about five miles (8 k m) north- northwest of the city's downtown. It was once a heavily Swedish neighborhood. Today, it has a large gay and lesbian population.
The approximate street boundaries of Andersonville are North Glenwood Avenue to the east, North Ravenswood Avenue to the west, West Winnemac Avenue to the southSouth is one of the four cardinal or compass directions. It is the opposite of north and at right angles to east and west. True south is the direction towards the southern end of the axis about which the earth rotates, called the South Pole. The South Pol, and North Ridge Avenue to the north.
The main shopping street is North Clark Street, which runs roughly north-south. The stretch of North Clark Street south of West Foster Avenue is undergoing some gentle development and is sometimes called South Foster, or even more ironically SoFo.