Yuppie (1981)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:15:23 EDT, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>_Chicago:  City on the brink; The social fallout of economic crisis
>Parts of city have  become economic wastelands _
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>R C Longworth.  Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file). Chicago, Ill.: May
>13, 1981. p. 1 (2 pages)
>First page:
>It's almost a cliche to say that Chicago is a collection of
>neighborhoods. Some are rich and healthy--Beverly with its mostly white
>population, Pill Hill with its mostly black professionals, Lincoln Park
>with its Yuppies (Young Urban Professionals).

Looks like Lincoln Park was the original yuppie epicenter...

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Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1982, p. B4/2
A North Side resident and jogger, Berger aims her act at the Lincoln Park
"yuppie" [young urban professional] set, seeming to delight them with
isn't-it-true observations on life near the lake.
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Local alternative weeklies like the Chicago Reader might have further
antedatings. (The Reader was founded in 1971, but the online archive only
goes back to 1988.)


--Ben Zimmer