The Rogers Park Manor Historic District is located on the north side of Chicago within W. Lunt Ave. and W. Farwell Ave. to the north and south, and N. Western Ave. and N. California Ave. to the east and west. Built between 1923 and 1930, the bungalows of Rogers Park Manor were built one at a time or in small groups of no more than five by various architects and builders, giving the neighborhood a greater sense of diversity than most other bungalow districts. Architects and builders in the early 1920s followed a simplified, economical formula for bungalows in Rogers Park Manor. Then, in the late 1920s, the form of the Chicago bungalow underwent a dramatic transformation as more white-collar households took an interest in the area and housing prices rose. These later bungalows featured rounded or polygonal front bays, corner or side entrances, and more costly details like art glass windows and ceramic tile roofs. Of all the historic Chicago bungalow districts, nowhere is this trend more evident than in Rogers Park Manor, where the early form of the practical but understated bungalow giving way to large and elaborate homes that challenged the accepted idea of the Chicago bungalow.

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The South Shore Bungalow Historic District is located in the south side of Chicago roughly within 75th St. and 78th St. to the south and north, and Chappel Ave. and Oglesby Ave. to the east and west. The district includes 229 Chicago bungalows built between 1911 and 1930. Proximity to the lakeshore and Jackson Park, the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, made South Shore a prime area for residential development. With about half of the homes in the district dating to before 1920, the South Shore community developed significantly earlier than most areas within Chicago's bungalow belt. Like the Rogers Park Manor District, homes were built one at a time or in small groups by over 35 different architects and builders, but the bungalows of the South Shore District maintained a stronger sense of uniformity than the diverse bungalows of Rogers Park Manor. European Protestants were the initial inhabitants, but the population began to change in the 1920s as Irish Catholics, Germans, and Russians moved to the neighborhood from nearby Washington Park. In the 1950s, African American families began moving to South Shore and the neighborhood has become a destination for families looking to live in a middle-class community on Chicago's South Side ever since.

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