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LGBTQ neighborhood will no longer be marketed as 'Boystown'

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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago's Boystown neighborhood will soon have a new name.


After an online survey by the local chamber of commerce, business leaders will no longer market the area as Boystown, following complaints that the 30-year-old name excludes women and gender nonbinary people.

It will now be called Northalsted and promoted as "Chicago's Proudest Neighborhood," according to a statement released Wednesday by the Northalsted Business Alliance, the local chamber of commerce.

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The Northalsted Business Alliance began that survey in the wake of a change.org petition calling for a name change that now has over 1,400 signatures

A rival "Keep Boystown!" petition has over 2,000 signatures. The "Keep Boystown!" petition said the name isn't intended to be racist or sexist.

The Northalsted Business Alliance can't make a formal name change; that decision lies with city planners, mapmakers and aldermen, according to the Tribune.

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