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Ukrainian Village, like neighboring East Village, began as farmland. German immigrants who arrived mostly in the mid-19th century formed the largest early ethnic group, but with new waves of immigration starting in the late 19th century the area was largely Slavic by the turn of the century. Ukrainians settled here partly because of their familiarity with the Poles of the surrounding Polish Downtown, and dense settlement was spurred by the 1895 construction of an elevated train line along Paulina Avenue, which gave residents access to workplaces before it was decommissioned in 1964. The neighborhood grew into the commercial and spiritual center of Chicago's Ukrainian community, gaining three major Ukrainian churches, Ukrainian-owned financial institutions, a Ukrainian-language grammar school, the Ukrainian National Museum, a Ukrainian Cultural Center, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral was the first of the area's two Ukrainian Greek Catholic churches, with its property purchased in 1913 and the present church completed in 1915, its thirteen domes representing Christ and the Twelve Apostles.

Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Parish was founded in 1968 after a split within the St. Nicholas parish, and it follows the Julian Calendar. The neighborhood also holds Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral, the first Eastern European Russian Orthodox church in what was then called the Slavic Village, designed by architect Louis Sullivan. On December 4, 2002, the Ukrainian Village District, centered on Haddon Avenue, Thomas Street, and Cortez Street between Damen and Leavitt Avenues, was designated a Chicago Landmark District, with extensions added in 2005 and 2007. Over the past half century the area has remained a neighborhood with deep Eastern European roots, though the broader gentrification of the West Town community area has steadily reshaped it into a trendier, more mixed area.