We appeared on WGN radio in Chicago last November, discussing our book Building Chicagos Subways on the Dave Plier Show. At the end of Shameless, Lip has decided to sell the Gallagher house for a mere $75,000 a far cry from the $250,000 he was offered by a developer before he pushed too hard and lost that deal. 4:45 Car 5727, January 16, 1954 You can find those pages on the Newberry Library's Chicago Ancestors website.. Photo 516 is not at Halsted and Waveland, it is a half a block north at the streetcar layover area wedged between Halsted and Broadway (Hence the Route 8 destination sign!). The comments about the photo at Division and Crosby are confirmed by the street sign at left showing that street to be Burling Street. It appears that the street has already been made a one-way, which did not happen until November 16, 1953. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4101 is westbound on Madison, but where did it cross the Chicago & North Western? Poor neighborhoods were razed and replaced. Located in what used to a Buick showroom, it features a large taproom with a BYOF policy that encourages delivery. Where to begin? The deadliest tornado hit on April 21, 1967, traveling through Oak Lawn and the South Side of Chicago, killing 33 and injuring 500. . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 7271 is northbound on Clark at Roosevelt. A few include: the first Black President, Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, the first Black female Senator, Carol Moseley Braun, and the first Black presidential candidate to win a primary, Jesse Jackson. The YMCA Hotel, seen in the background, opened in 1916 and closed in 1979. Type in the name of your neighborhood or select one from the list below. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7788385,-87.6447587,3a,75y,3.14h,91.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYcGafc7OK9fQ0w712doa2A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192, 63rd and Halsted in 1939 when this Sears store was 6 years old. 03. These segregated communities maintained a tense coexistence until 1919, when racist white hostility bubbled over. The first order to build rapid transit cars from PCC streetcars was in June 1953 for 150 cars; followed by a 100 car order in Feb. 1954, a 20 car order in Dec. 1954, an 80 car order in June 1955 and a 50 car order in Dec. 1955. In its aftermath, white flight from Chicago accelerated. 07. Interesting to look at photos 591 & 565 which show the same area on Western. 11. Mexicans and Mexican Americans account for the vast majority of the 819,518 Latinx residents currently living in Chicago and continue to live in or right next to polluted industrial corridors on the Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest sides. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4020 on Western at 73rd during track work on June 26, 1955. By the 1960s, Black residents had moved into grade B (blue) communities in the South Side, such as Roseland and Beverly. The Gallagher House is the home of the Gallagher Family. 5:17 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4050 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. As a field interviewer I had to look for displaced residents from the projects. In 1991 the Chicago White Sox began to play in a new Comiskey Park across the street from the old stadium. (Wien-Criss Archive), Here, a CTA Pullman PCC is northbound on Clark at Roosevelt Road. The only way to get there (still with usable tracks and live trolley wires) was along 69th St. to Wentworth (200 W.), south to 73rd St. at Vincennes, then southwest on Vincennes to the barn at 77th. One comment, the photo of CTA 687 is at Division and Crosby, not Larrabee. Chicago Hoods: West Side. 4 Board of Trustees/Directors minutes May 1952-Oct 1956 draft copy. The Civic Opera House is to the left. Western Ave. cars had used the carbarn at 69th and Ashland until it closed. The stores from left to right are: S S Kresge, on the southwest corner; The Ace department store on the northwest corner; and Sears Roebuck, the huge building on the northeast corner (with a Hillmans grocery in the basement). 4:04 Close to a third of Chicago neighborhoods were given a D grade and marked red on a mapthus, redlined. These areas, all of which were predominantly Black communities, were deemed undesirable, and residents from these neighborhoods were usually denied bank loans and insurance, severely limiting their housing prospects and mobility. Wayne Miller Three Teenagers in a Kitchenette Apartment, from the "Chicago's South Side" Series c.1946 Wayne Miller, Magnum Photography Great 1918-2013 Ave atque Vale. Photo 513 has a pet peeve caption as far as I am concerned. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic544.jpg The YMCA Hotel was on the west side of the street; the car is northbound, as evidenced by the Downtown head sign. After its peak in the 1950s, a variety of changes influenced the direction the Outfit took. ca. Altoona & Logan Valley: (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7123 on Western at 66th on July 9, 1950. First, a nit: I think this picture is at 107th rather than 105th. [Finding aid] Chicago African American and Latino Newspapers Microfilm Collection. The African-American population in Chicago now makes up 25 percent of the city, but racial segregation is high, and much of the South and West sides have become densely populated, marginalized, low-income areas. Halsted cars ended their runs at 63rd. (Wien-Criss Archive). ?etc (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4389 is southbound on Western near Leland Avenue, having just passed under the Ravenswood L (todays Brown Line), where a train of wooden cars are in the station. The plan was ostensibly intended to decentralize Black poverty and relocate residents to mixed-income housing in integrated neighborhoods. A cropped version of this photo ran in one of our earlier posts, but this was scanned from the original negative. Up until the 1940s, Black residents were confined to this corridor, better known as the Black Belt, which ran along State Street roughly between Roosevelt Road (12th Street) and 79th Street. The southeast corner building was nondescript, although at one point it was a Stineway drug store. 09. But when industrial employment dried up in the 1950s and '60s, it descended into poverty and crime. The growing Black population eventually formed settlements farther south and up north in isolated and undeveloped areas along the Kinzie rail lines, Roosevelt, and the North Branch of the Chicago River. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4008 is southbound on Wabash at about 900 South. Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7156, sporting unusual yellow numbers, is on Western at Van Buren on August 13, 1954. 12:40 Car #202 (ex-1202), between Springfield and Decatur, February 1955 It was converted to apartments in 1985. This picture was taken from the eastbound platform of the Englewood L station spanning Halsted St. At that time, Halsted was still a very busy business district; in fact, I read somewhere that Englewood was the busiest business district outside the Loop. A 2017 fair housing study looked into six community areas that had the most reported complaints of racial and income discrimination against renters: Jefferson Park, the Near North Side, Bridgeport, Hyde Park, Clearing, and Mount Greenwood. During the 1950s, Puerto Ricans began to arrive in the city of Chicago. Last Run of the Hagerstown & Frederick: South Side Chicago - (grist.org) In 1980, the community suffered as South Works, a company in the area, laid off employees and closed more of its facilities in the neighborhood. Western/Berwyn canopies lasted a long time, into late 80s, before they rusted off at the ground! Public housing was intended to house a mix of working-class and poor families and was welcomed and enjoyed by new residents, according to early testimonies. The Union Stock Yard finally closed its doors on August 1, 1971, after nearly 106 years of operation. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 687 is at Division and Larrabee on May 17, 1954. Tenants were promised a right to return to soon-to-be-built housing on the sites and placed on voucher waiting lists, but many residents struggled to meet the bureaucratic requirements to be considered. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic556.jpg CHICAGO Perched along a quiet, tree-lined street on this city's South Side, the worn brick and concrete building on South Champlain Avenue is hard to miss.The tall structure stands out among . This corresponds to the white on dark green format of the 54 Illinois plates. 10. Constructed over alleys through the South side, the Alley "'L" opened for regular service on June 6, 1892. . https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic512.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic530.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic534.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic535.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic544.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic555.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic558.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic556.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic566.jpg, https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic568.jpg, https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7788385,-87.6447587,3a,75y,3.14h,91.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYcGafc7OK9fQ0w712doa2A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192, https://chicagology.com/wp-content/themes/revolution-20/century/194063rdhalsted.jpg. If youre ever in the neighborhood, the TV house is located at 2119 South Homan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60623. All rights reserved.. Espaol: Gua de recursos COVID-19 en el sur de Chicago, The Geography of Fear: Policing a Segregated Chicago. Tens of thousands of Black residents are also leaving their traditional South and West side neighborhoods in recent years, as has been extensively reported, in what some are calling an outmigration or a reverse migration. The citys Black population peaked in the mid-twentieth century and is now at its lowest level since then, with 787,551 Black residents as of 2020. Subways Since 1960 06. The River Tunnels Railroad Record Club North Shore Line Rarities 1955-1963 (Wien-Criss Archive), Riverview Park at Western and Roscoe on June 10, 1956. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4028 is on Western at 27th on November 20, 1955. 3:45 Box motor #5 At a beach near 29th Street, a white man began throwing rocks at Black boys who were swimming at a perceived whites-only beach, drowning seventeen-year-old Eugene Williams. If there was one impresario of the South Side during that period, it was Johnny Robinson, also known as Johnny Pepper, who operated three successive clubs from the late 1950s through the early . 4:56 Car 5706, January 16, 1954 From the beginning, Chicagos demographic makeup was segregated by race and ethnicity along neighborhood boundaries and the physical features of the built and natural environment. People wait for a streetcar in downtown Chicago. One day I got off at Damen and walked under the tracks to see where they went. The PCC is going to go northbound on Route 22 Clark-Wentworth. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4102, a Pullman PCC, is heading west at about 500 W. Madison, operating on the Madison-Fifth branch of Route 20. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4108 is northbound at Kinzie Street. Title Building Chicagos Subways Open in Google Maps. South Side Chicago. The station was closed in 1952, probably just a few months before this picture was taken. Chance The Rapper Will Host 'Saturday Night Live' Next Month, How To Look Like Svengoolie: Sven Shows You How To Do The Makeup (VIDEO). African Americans were also denied access to white areas by means less violent, but no less destructive. Where is Rembrandt in The Night Watch painting? The Freight Tunnels The State Street Subway The ease of getting around that city is amazing. Why not mention that the Panama Ltd and the City of Miami operated there on the tracks nearest to Cottage Grove; not to mention IC freight activity and such trackage rights New York Central trains as the James Whitcomb Riley and the Twilight Ltd? (Wien-Criss Archive), An unidentified CTA red car is on Halsted at 63rd Street on September 16, 1953. The bulk of the items are from the 1920s-1950s. 1957: Civil Rights Act of 1957 is responsible for enforcing the civil rights laws passed. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic512.jpg From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicagos South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. 17:25 (Car 187, Brighton Car House, December 13, 1951 regular service abandoned April 29, 1951) (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4375 is at 69th and Hamilton on November 5, 1954. Prior to its more official naming, the media referred to the Bronzeville neighborhood and adjacent areas using derisive names such as the "Black Belt," "Black Ghetto," and even more appalling names such as "Darkie Town." Join us in looking back on three swanky nightclubs from the '60s. Bibliographic information: (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4402 on Western at 21st on June 17, 1954. $5 from the sale of each set will go to Kenneth Gear, who has invested thousands of dollars to purchase all the remaining artifacts relating to William A. Steventons Railroad Record Club of Hawkins, WI. Todays photos have two things in common. Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1s: Immigrants typically lived in inadequate housing near railroads and industryin bunk houses, boxcars, and section houses. The big building on other side is the old Madison carbarn. Chicago's South Side Building new lives in the 'Black Belt' by Alex Q. Arbuckle Image: Library of Congress In the early decades of the 20th century, millions of African-Americans began leaving. 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