After Mrs. O’Leary’s cow started the Great Chicago Fire and burned a good portion of the city down (or however that fire started), they rebuilt the city so that it’d be easy to find your way around.  All the Chicago neighborhoods are divided up into their own regions and there’s trains and highways running between them, making them all distinct and connected to each other, even if you have to go through another few neighborhoods to get to one.  The distinctions between neighborhoods aren’t always that great or even necessary.  For example, Bucktown and Wicker Park are basically the same neighborhood.  Nowadays, I’d even lump the East Village or maybe even the Ukrainian Village in there with them.  They say that the Ukrainian Village (or maybe it’s the East Village, I’m always getting the two confused) is the new Wicker Park.  They mean it’s the home for artists and trendsetters.  Of course there’s people like that over in Bucktown as well and the neighborhoods are all close enough that they should be one.  I think it’s just a matter of city zoning or drawing up maps.  For whatever reason, people need all these little neighborhoods instead of bigger ones.  But, if it helps with directions, they should do it.