1454 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605. The introduction to Polk's Chicago Directory 1923 provides a brief history of Chicago directories and a list of published volumes. Chicago Loop. 01. Black communities protested, and the strife culminated in five days of violence that left thirty-eight deadtwenty-three Black and fifteen white Chicagoans. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7118 is southbound on Western at Van Buren on November 3, 1954, with a train of wooden L cars about to cross Western on the temporary right of way for the Garfield Park L during expressway construction. ?etc The southeast corner building was nondescript, although at one point it was a Stineway drug store. 15. While in the South Side Chicago hoods along 83rd, 87th, and 95th streets the Black P. Stones have had a dominant presence since the 1970s. During street car years, the Illinois Central RR owned the entire embankment. Railroad Record Club North Shore Line Rarities 1955-1963 #1 Looking south on State Street, 1964 6 Points Upvote Downvote * #2 Randolph Street theaters, 1967 5 Points Upvote Downvote In 1961, it was renamed after Dan Ryan Jr., the former president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and a strong proponent of. The restaurant was now known as "Vito and Nick's," The pizza soon became a southside Chicago sensation. Nob-Hill Club 5228 Lake Park Avenue 1950's Lefty Bates CD Oct. 10, 1953; Ben Webster and Miles Davis CD Dec. 5, 1953 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago 1156 E 59th Street Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts, CD Sept. 25, 1967 St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 55th and Kimbark Count Basie, CD Jan. 22, 1975 The rest of Madison was bussed. Despite the high-stakes campaign led by the Young Lords and the Rainbow Coalition against the Citys urban renewal plan, they were priced out and pushed to Humboldt Park and Hermosa, and in recent years they have been partially displaced again by new development. Length 128 pages . But the most creative period for the city was the 1950s, when rivals Chess and Vee Jay battled for supremacy in the rhythm-and-blues market. Hollstein School was a one-room schoolhouse in Tinley Park. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7240 is at 69th and Morgan on October 25, 1954. South Side Weekly partnered with WTTW and the Invisible Institute to co-publish text and visual reporting and analysis covering the impact racial divisions have on individuals, the city, and our region. The cars have 1953 license plates. Chicago nightlife history is full of fun and fascinating stories. Your caption says this streetcar is on 77th St. No, it is on Vincennes Ave., in front of the 77th St. barn, heading north. Many were pushed to industry-heavy Pilsen, which for almost a century was an immigrant point of entry, but is now one of the most expensive gentrifying neighborhoods on the South Side. 1. The interactive map shows that by the 1950s, Black residents had started to trickle into "grade C" or "yellow-lined" European immigrant neighborhoods on the West and Southeast sides. 4:56 Car 5706, January 16, 1954 4. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 248 is at Crosby and Larrabee on May 17, 1954. But CHA maintenance began to fall off quickly, and by the 1980s the War on Drugs and mass incarceration created crises of crime and concentrated poverty in the densely populated towers of the Robert Taylor Homes, adjacent Stateway Gardens, and Cabrini-Green. 17:25 (Car 187, Brighton Car House, December 13, 1951 regular service abandoned April 29, 1951) Puerto Rican people are the second-largest Latinx group in Chicago. Streetcars were on rails, so they could maintain such clearances. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4053 at Western and Leland on June 10, 1956. We thank him for his generosity. Why does every recent description and photo caption of the segment of the Cottage Grove line south of 95th St. talk about it paralleling the Metra Electric? They were in various neighborhood, suburbs. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western-Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. The photographer who took the black-and-whites is not known, but it seems possible it was someone who did not live in this area, but came to visit. The Southeast Side is a description that the city itself continues to resist, including this neighborhood with all of Chicago's South Side communities. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. (Source: A. (1) The red-and-white bus in the background belonged to the South Suburban Safeway Lines. The streetcars shown here were Western Ave. cars, running east on 69th St. to get to the Vincennes / 77th St. barn. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic534.jpg Note the circa 1953 Cadillac at left. The expressway was originally called the South Route. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7037 is on Western at the Chicago River on June 10, 1956. With a location just south of the ever-expanding University of Chicago in Hyde Park, however . Greektown, the south side's Chinatown, South Asians on Devon Street, Pilsen's Mexican Americans, and the Polish Triangle are just a handful of the vibrant communities in Chicago - famously. 7113 crossing back to the right-hand track would have involved the same procedure unless there was a common, wired, trailing crossover a couple of blocks further. The South Side experienced a population shift during the move to suburbs following World War II. To date, we have received over 559,000 page views, for which we are very grateful. People wait for a streetcar in downtown Chicago. This story was produced for WTTWS FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION, an award-winning FIRSTHAND multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago. The light green paint originally used on these cars faded badly and was hard to match. The price of $23.99 includes shipping within the United States. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4227 is on the turnback loop at Clark and Howard, the north end of Route 22. $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. Chicago, city, seat of Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. With a population hovering near three million, Chicago is the state's largest and the country's third most populous city. You would be forgiven for not recognizing this location, but thats the Western Avenue station on the Humboldt Park L, just north of North Avenue. along with a sign alerting northbound motorists to stay left of the open running tracks. 01. 07. Beautiful Vintage Postcards of Chicago's Restaurants from the 1950s and 1960s. We look forward to hearing from you. Dr. Martin Luther Kings visit to Chicago during the Freedom Movement campaign for fair housing made headlines in 1966. The first waves of Black migrants fleeing the Jim Crow South were relegated to a vertical strip of land near Lake Michigan. Author David Sadowski (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7123 at Western and 69th on January 28, 1954. 06. Another treasure trove of photos thanks to the Wien-Criss Archive. 5:07 December 31. As he led a march through Marquette Park on the Southwest Side, he was attacked with bricks by a racist white mob. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4027 (at left) passes a postwar car on Western at 24th on June 7, 1956. So, my best guess is this picture was taken during the summer of 1954. #534 looks south on Halsted from the (A line) L station, note the curved pull-offs of the overhead which is well defined along with the curves corresponding track which converges into the south bound track in view #536. Chicago, Illinois, December 17, 1938 Secretary Harold Ickes, left, and Mayor Edward J. Kelly turn the first spadeful of earth to start the new $40,000,000 subway project. Two things in this picture: A bit of detail on photos (pic571.jpg & pic572.jpg) at 71st & Western, the temporary facing crossover was installed without a corresponding crossover overhead wire. Between 1950 and 1960, most white residents in Chicago's south side Woodlawn neighborhood fled as poor blacks moved in. Photo 504 shows car 4108 turning off of northbound Dearborn St. to westbound Kinzie St. before continuing north on Clark St. Photo 506 is certainly plausible. 3:45 Box motor #5 The streetcar in the photo is headed northbound, with the Rock Island Main Line to its right and Vincennes Ave to its left. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7038 is on Western at Van Buren on June 11, 1956. But when industrial employment dried up in the 1950s and '60s, it descended into poverty and crime. 4 Board of Trustees/Directors minutes May 1952-Oct 1956 draft copy. You can find those pages on the Newberry Library's Chicago Ancestors website.. Take a look at these stunning historical photos of Chicago in the 1960s that shows the street, roads, transport, nightlife, and everyday life. In addition, the greater Chicagoland areawhich encompasses northeastern Illinois and extends into southeastern Wisconsin and northwestern Indianais the country's third largest metropolitan area and . This bar is well-known by DePaul University students who frequent here on the weekends, and god knows also the weeknights. [/caption], RRC-OMTT But by then, the Pullman PCCs were systematically being retired and shipped to St. Louis, where they were scrapped and parts were reused in rapid transit cars. Children listen attentively at Hollstein School in 1952. At this time, the temporary Van Buren trackage was still under construction, and this picture was taken from the Garfield Park L station, then still in use. In the twenty years from 1890 to 1910, Chicago's African-American population increased . 4:17 Car 306 (ex-AE&FRE), September 27, 1953 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." Notice 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. This gigantic construction project, a part of the New Deal, would overcome many obstacles while tunneling through Chicagos soft blue clay, under congested downtown streets, and even beneath the mighty Chicago River. Chicago, though arguably racially diverse overall, is considered by researchers to be the nation's most racially segregated city. 09. Railroad Record Club North Shore Line Rarities 1955-1963 st jerome croatian catholic church - celebtates 104th year. National Archives Stateway Gardens, a housing project on Chicago's South Side, housed nearly 7,000 people in 1973. (312 . To reach Englewood, this bus line ran east on 95th to Vincennes, north to 87th, west to Morgan, north to 63rd, then east to the Englewood L. As we have said before, If you buy here, we will be here.. 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. The station was closed in 1952, probably just a few months before this picture was taken. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 6154 is southbound at Halsted and Congress on October 5, 1953. These were stipulations written into deeds of sale that prohibited Black residents and non-whites from buying, leasing, or inhabiting property in a determined parcel. Wandering the streets of the 'Black Belt.' 1941. That would be the old Paulina L that ran to Logan Square and Humboldt Park from 1895 to 1951. 12:40 Car #202 (ex-1202), between Springfield and Decatur, February 1955 Order your copy today! https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic512.jpg Copyright 2009-2018, New York Public Radio. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7012 at Western and Congress, crossing over the new expressway, on June 11, 1956. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4408 on Western at 66th on July 16, 1951. And this photo is at 69th and Western, showing a northbound Western car turning east on 69th to head to the 77th St. barn. Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. While the Census doesnt follow traditional Chicago neighborhood boundaries, areas of Englewood, Park Manor and Woodlawn have poverty rates above 60 percent. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western and Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. Andre Kristopans says it is Crossing under CNW and PRR at Rockwell. Cheryl Johnson and Peggy Salazar, lifelong residents of Chicago's South Side, grew up in some of the city's most polluted neighborhoods, in the shadow of dirty industries, including steel. It would have made Chicago a much more commuter friendly city. In the mid-1950's Chicago suffered its first post industrial crisis as the major meatpacking companies began to close their production facilities. Todays photos have two things in common. These have been digitized, and we are now offering over three hours of 1950s traction audio recordings that have not been heard in 60 years. Those canopies were short-lived after the end of streetcar service, as buses eventually ran into them. In the early years of the twentieth century, Chicago was the fastest-growing city in the U.S. Early 1960s: Unequal learning opportunities lead parents in Chicago's South Side to protest public school . In order to continue giving you the kinds of historic railroad images that you have come to expect from The Trolley Dodger, we need your help and support. 06. This pattern ran from 107th St. north to the Rock Island suburban line viaduct at 89th St., at which point the streetcar tracks rejoined Vincennes Ave. to go under the viaduct. Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. The South Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Geographically, it is the largest of the three sections of the city, with the other two being the North Side and the West Side.It radiates and lies south of the city's downtown area, the Chicago Loop.. Much of the South Side came from the city's annexation of townships such as Hyde Park. Native American tribesthe Potawatomi, Odawa, Sauk, Ojibwe, Illinois, Kickapoo, Miami, Mascouten, Wea, Delaware, Winnebago, Menominee, and Mesquakiewere forced out of what is now Chicago by early French and British settlers. Chicago 's historic South Side neighborhood is a largely residential community defined by its red brick houses and tree-shaded sidewalks. 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. To replace workers at local factories, business brought in w. According to 2009 American Community Survey data, of Chicago's 77 community areas, 68 are home to a population of which at least 50 percent identify with a single racial group. Thank you. 1. When I got to Western they ended and I recall seeing a few feet of track bent down from the last support. The Gallagher House is the home of the Gallagher Family. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCCs 4103 and 4076 pass each other while crossing the Chicago River on Madison Street. The University of Illinois at Chicago's digital photo collections archive has about2,300 black-and-white scans of photos of various intersections and notable outdoor areas throughout the city from the 1920s-50s. Your financial contributions help make this web site better, and are greatly appreciated. Another clue that helps pinpoint the date is the light lettering on dark background seen on license plates in this image. It grew to encompass the State Street, Dearborn-Milwaukee, and West Side Subways, with the latter modernizing the old Garfield Park L into the median of Chicagos first expressway. 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? One of my enduring childhood memories, growing up in the 1970s and 1980s on Chicago's South Side, was something I called the "boundary." Amazing! 13. And we thank you for sharing this helpful bit of history! In the Windy City, jazz started out in small local clubs on the South Side. Western/Berwyn canopies lasted a long time, into late 80s, before they rusted off at the ground! 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). Black families in Chicago lost between $3 billion and $4 billion in wealth because of predatory housing contracts during the 1950s and 1960s, according to a new report released Thursday. In the 1960s, then-Mayor Richard J. Daleys administration began to address the dilapidated housing conditions of the citys poorest and signed off on the construction of 165 high-rises managed by the Chicago Housing Authority that would house mainly Black Chicagoans. Yusay beer stands out on a lot of the photos. Here we see the curved track from 63rd place along with the nicely highlighted companion overhead wire. 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 . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4020 on Western at 73rd during track work on June 26, 1955. Cincinnati Street Railway: During the 1950s, Puerto Ricans began to arrive in the city of Chicago. 4:51 According to a reliable website called HeyJackass!, during 2017, someone in Chicago was shot every 2 hours and 27 minutes and murdered every 12 hours and 59 minutes. View of artists and attendees discussing one of the exhibited pieces during a show at the Southside Community Arts Center, in Chicago, Illinois, 1967. 1.5k Views. 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. First time I came across it and Im barely 23! From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicagos South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. ), Now Available On Compact Disc But future waves of immigration in the mid-twentieth century and, later, in the 1980s and 90s bolstered their numbers in the city. 07. 4:13 Loco #12 by Eddie from Chicago, via Flickr, Gage Park High School undermined by budget cuts, constant attacks. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4262 is on 77th, by the car barn at 77th and Vincennes. 4:53 Engine whistle signals, loco #12, January 17, 1954 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4096 is westbound on Madison, crossing over the Chicago River. Later, this hotbed of activity attracted rural migrant workers from places such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the southern United Statesfrom which racist discrimination and violence drove more than 500,000 Black Americans to Chicago. Make No Little Plans Open in Google Maps. Discriminatory housing policies meant that the majority of African American families lived like the Youngers, in kitchenette apartments - larger apartments were broken up into several smaller homes, with a very small kitchen and one bedroom. Mexican residents of the area around Jane Addamss Hull House settlement housetodays University Villagehad a similar fate as the Puerto Ricans. Your email address will not be published. Copyright 2009-2018, DNAinfo. Built between 1949 and 1961 at a cost of $183 million, the Eisenhower Expressway displaced an estimated 13,000 people and forced out more than 400 businesses in Chicago alone. Looking back at Chicago in the 1960s and the racial tensions that divided Blacks and Whites, I decided to write a book about that experience. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7156, sporting unusual yellow numbers, is on Western at Van Buren on August 13, 1954. Technology advances enter the classroom and Chicago schools now have projectors, microscopes and early computer kits. All Rights Reserved. What is the South Side of Chicago called? (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4402 on Western at 21st on June 17, 1954. Appearing to rise above the L platform is the corner tower of the Sears Building, looking carefully on the enlarged view, the SEARS name can be seen. The postwar relocation of urban whites, known as white flight, was facilitated by the new expressways that connected them to the developing suburbs west of the city limits, where Black, Latinx, and the growing Asian population were kept out. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4008 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4039 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. Nowadays, transit agencies have style manuals, used to maintain consistency, but such was not the case in the early 1950s. By the 1960s, Black residents had moved into "grade B" (blue) communities in the South Side, such as Roseland and Beverly. 08. Geographically, it is the largest of the three Sides of the city that radiate from downtown-the other Sides of the city being the North Side and the West Side.South Side, Chicago. We are donating $5 from the sale of each disc to Kenneth Gear, who saved these and many other original Railroad Record Club master tapes from oblivion. Not quite CSL sold it in 1920s, but amazingly close! Rockwell is 2600 West. Interesting to look at photos 591 & 565 which show the same area on Western. 01. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7236 is at Archer and Western on November 17, 1954. The PCC is going to go northbound on Route 22 Clark-Wentworth. Disc Three The Robert Taylor Homes, located between 39th and 54th streets, had more than half of those apartments. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7123 on Western at 66th on July 9, 1950. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 640 is running under the L on Halsted at 63rd Place on May 25, 1954. Re: pic508, car 4008 on Wabash Avenue. I can remember the screeching noises and sparks from when the connectors hit the wires.
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