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Why did artists and writers move to Greenwich Village and Chicagos south side in the 1920s?

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Why did artists and writers move to Greenwich Village and Chicagos south side in the 1920s?

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Artists and writers are generally broke, so they probably moved to these places on account of cheap rents. Over time an artistic community formed (this would include all the arts) and in both NYC and Chicago all kinds of new poets flourished, as did jazz.