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 CHA admitted they lost track of thousands of displaced people as they moved to other Black neighborhoods. Third Avenue El (New York City): The City of Chicago broke ground on what would become the Initial System of Subways during the Great Depression and finished 20 years later. 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. While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. This was later the end of the line for the Wentworth half of the line, between 1957 and 1958, when buses replaced streetcars north of here. . There is no shoo-fly yet, meaning construction had not yet started on the Western Avenue bridge that would eventually go over the Congress Expressway. The YMCA Hotel was on the west side of the street; the car is northbound, as evidenced by the Downtown head sign. PCC 7113 would be powered into the crossover while the conductor pulls the pole from the rear window, as the car then coasts onto the parallel track. I would always give my out of town Chicago racist tour: Take kedzie ave towards Humboldt Park -puertoricans, keep going south African Americans than come Mexicans,turn by Taylor you got Italians,get on Devon ave to see Indian community, Lincoln -Mckormick Jewish. And we thank you for sharing this helpful bit of history! 4:17 Car 306 (ex-AE&FRE), September 27, 1953 The Trolley Dodger On the Air 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. 5:17 1454 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605. #535 looks north on Halsted from the L station, this was the main crossroads of the Englewood shopping district. 2023 2022 South Side Weekly. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7042, in the distance, is about to clear a temporary switch so that the car on the right can cross over to that side during track work. 13. The State Street Subway 4. Check out these old photos of Illinois from the 1940s. At one point, Chicago boasted the largest Irish population and the second-largest Polish population of any city in the world. Much of the promised housing failed to materialize, and its uncertain whether the CHA will ever build new housing for the 40,000 families currently on their waiting lists. 04. Queensboro Bridge Company (New York City): Length 128 pages The address is 2119 N Wallace St, Chicago, Illinois 60609. African Americans were also denied access to white areas by means less violent, but no less destructive. All copies purchased through The Trolley Dodger will be signed by the author. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic535.jpg Disc Three In 1961, it was renamed after Dan Ryan Jr., the former president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and a strong proponent of. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 453 and 190 are on Halsted at 63rd Place on May 21, 1954. # of Discs- 3 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. Subways and Superhighways Their numbers fell off during the Depression amid intensified immigration crackdowns, according to researchers. 5:09 Passenger interurban #9 Subways Since 1960 05. Great Photo Set! Since 1950, there have been 271 tornadoes recorded across . The southeast corner building was nondescript, although at one point it was a Stineway drug store. Southside of Chicago Capital of Black America By Carla Punla Suffered its first postindustrial crisis as the meatpacking industries began to close Robert Taylor Homes was known to be the largest housing project. I lived in Portland, OR for 6 years and they still have street cars. There were 679 murders and . https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic544.jpg HOUSING SEGREGATION IN 1950S SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO Already experiencing a population boom after Reconstruction, Chicago was a popular destination for African Americans moving from the South to the North in the early 20th century. 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? Chicagos suburbs, Indiana, and other Midwestern states are popular destinations for Black residents. [/caption], RRC-OMTT Photos depict intersections, streets, bridges, snow removal and other traffic features in the city, mainly along major streets. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7123 at Western and 69th on January 28, 1954. 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. Price: $15.99 16:26 sounds recorded on board a PCC (early 1950s) Chicago's South Side in black & white May 12, 2016 SJNN By Alden Loury Looking West down 79th Street at Western Ave, Chicago, IL. In the 1960s, for instance, the advent of "free love" took a significant bite out of the . 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. In the mid-1950s Chicago faced its first postindustrial crisis as the major meatpacking companies began to close their production facilities. I trust that the Trolley Dodger blog will continue as it is regardless of the future of ChicagoTransit. Perhaps there was a parade on State Street that day (between 1939 and 1949 there was no State Street bridge, and this would have been the regular route for 36 then). 04. During its heyday, there was Soft Sheen Products, a $100 million-a-year. 04. People wait for a streetcar in downtown Chicago. They were not all taken at the same time, however. Total time 73:14 4:35 August 27, 1954 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. It was converted to apartments in 1985. White flight caused redlining as the community was now at almost 90% black by 1960. History. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic556.jpg https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic558.jpg 2008- University of Michigan launch a study Moving Towards Opportunity. I have produced some comments about your most recent photo group (Chicago in the 1950s). 4:34 PCCs #1708, 1752, 1727, 1739, December 6, 1953 17:34 Car #172, February 20, 1954 as broadcast on WJEJ, February 21, 1954, with host Carroll James, Sr. 143 followers . The original Little Joes Pizzeria on 63rd Street & Richmond, The original 1960's era White Castle restaurant at South Archer and Kedzie Avenues, in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4238 is southbound on Wabash, crossing the Chicago River. 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. Visit the website (wttw.com/firsthand) to explore the elements of the project. Another fantastic series of photos. 1950s The Neighbourhood Siding Universe T Tom Dudones My Chicago - I grew up on the South Side in the 1950s & sixties. Baltimore Transit: 07. Though most of the series is shot on a sound stage at Warner Bros. Studios in California, the exterior shots in Shameless are filmed on-location in Chicago. Riverdale. A 2017 study by the Metropolitan Planning Council and the Urban Institute looked at Latinx/white segregation, finding considerable disparities in educational attainment, upward mobility, and generational wealth between these groups. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7238 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on April 22, 1955. To date, we have received over 559,000 page views, for which we are very grateful. 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. But folks are also going back to the South, citing a lack of well-paying jobs and resources, as well as steady gun violence and a rising cost of living, as their main reasons for leaving the city. After that, the streetcars had to use the 77th and Vincennes barn. The tracks going to the right were for the 67th/69th/71st line, which used Western to travel between 69th and 71st. We appeared on WGN radio in Chicago last November, discussing our book Building Chicagos Subways on the Dave Plier Show. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4060 is on Western at the Logan Square L on June 8, 1956. ), Now Available On Compact Disc PCC 7151 is a two-man car, and passengers are boarding at the rear. You can see the streetcar trackage reverting to street running headed south. The construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the 60s further othered the Street State corridor. Racially restrictive covenants were also common in the Chicago area, as in the rest of the country. 1. In the Windy City, jazz started out in small local clubs on the South Side. 02. Building Chicagos Subways is in stock and now available for immediate shipment. They lived around Halsted ave. (David Sadowski Photo). The light green paint originally used on these cars faded badly and was hard to match. They turned east on 63rd to Union Ave. (700 W.), then south to 63rd Place, then west to alongside (south of) the Halsted L station, then back north on Halsted. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4208 is southbound on State Street at 64th, just a few blocks south of where car 7078 was involved in a horrific crash with a truck on May 25, 1950. 2. This is now the outdoor seating area for a restaurant. Potomac Edison (Hagerstown & Frederick), Capital Transit, Altoona & Logan Valley, Shaker Heights Rapid Transit, Pennsylvania Railroad, Illinois Terminal, Baltimore Transit, Niagara St. Catharines & Toronto, St. Louis Public Transit, Queensboro Bridge, Third Avenue El, Southern Iowa Railway, IND Subway (NYC), Johnstown Traction, Cincinnati Street Railway, and the Toledo & Eastern The big building on other side is the old Madison carbarn. There are different types of segregation beyond the Black-white binary that normally, and rightfully, comes to mind. Chance The Rapper Will Host 'Saturday Night Live' Next Month, How To Look Like Svengoolie: Sven Shows You How To Do The Makeup (VIDEO). 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. Technology advances enter the classroom and Chicago schools now have projectors, microscopes and early computer kits. PCCs were taken off Madison on December 13, 1953. The suburban bus company had two routes into Englewood one north along Western, then east on 63rd (this was the Harvey bus), the other north along Halsted St. from the south (this was the Chicago Heights bus). https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic534.jpg Last Run of the Hagerstown & Frederick: There are miscellanous directories available for later yearsbusiness directories and . 03. You can also see trolley bus wires, used on North Avenue. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7038 is on Western at Van Buren on June 11, 1956. 14. Total time: 79:30 The cross street is 63rd St. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7044 is on Western at Leland on June 10, 1956. What was South Side Chicago like in the 1950s? Andre Kristopans says it is Crossing under CNW and PRR at Rockwell. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7284 is on Western at the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on October 8, 1953. I can remember the screeching noises and sparks from when the connectors hit the wires. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic530.jpg But the largest group of projects was the Street State corridor in the former Bronzeville Black Belt, which had a total of 7,938 units. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7189 is passing through an area where tracks are being worked on at Western and Cermak on October 15, 1954. It appears that the street has already been made a one-way, which did not happen until November 16, 1953. By the 1960s, Black residents had moved into "grade B" (blue) communities in the South Side, such as Roseland and Beverly. 09. In Chicago, most of the South and West sides have 40 to 60 percent of residents living below the poverty level. Some southbound For a few months, Madison-Fifth continued as a shuttle operation between Madison and Pulaski, using older red streetcars. First time I came across it and Im barely 23! (Wein-Criss Archive), Northbound CTA PCC 7206 is on Western Avenue, passing a two-car train of PCC rapid transit cars on the Garfield Park temporary trackage in Van Buren Street. The PCC is going to go northbound on Route 22 Clark-Wentworth. 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. 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. 01. To commemorate these anniversaries, we have written a new book, Building Chicagos Subways. The ease of getting around that city is amazing. CHICAGO If you think your neighborhood has changed since you first moved in, you should see what it looked like 60 years ago. There are 223,867 residents in South Side Chicago, with a median age of 36. All Rights Reserved. . 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. Look at the bottom of the photo. After its peak in the 1950s, a variety of changes influenced the direction the Outfit took. Maps of Chicagos early ethnic composition show that immigrants and their descendants lived in clusters. During the 1950s, Puerto Ricans began to arrive in the city of Chicago. 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 . Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. Once a separate community, South Chicago began as a series of scattered Native American settlements before becoming a village. While Chicago Housing Authority was right on target for claiming the programs of urban redevelopment, urban renewal and public housing which . Extending trolly lines is much easier and economical than L tracks. As he led a march through Marquette Park on the Southwest Side, he was attacked with bricks by a racist white mob. The Southeast Side is a description that the city itself continues to resist, including this neighborhood with all of Chicago's South Side communities. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4096 is westbound on Madison, crossing over the Chicago River. 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. Not quite CSL sold it in 1920s, but amazingly close! Rockwell is 2600 West. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4050 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. 1.5k Views. Photos 534, 535 & 536 Englewood, at 63rd & Halsted was one of Chicagos largest and most important commercial shopping districts outside of the loop. 03. Effectively acting as sundown towns, suburbs such as Cicero utilized police and mob violence to draw a line in the concrete. Redone tile at the Monroe and Dearborn CTA Blue Line subway station, showing how an original sign was incorporated into a newer design, May 25, 2018. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4154 is at Waveland and Halsted, the north end of Route 8. Toledo & Eastern: Chicago Southside 1950's 95 square miles of the 228 square miles were considered the "south side". The first waves of Black migrants fleeing the Jim Crow South were relegated to a vertical strip of land near Lake Michigan. Is BCD Travel a good company to work for. South Side Chicago Chicago School Al Capone Al Capone's Chicago home, old Prairie avenue home, 7244 South Prairie Avenue. (312 . All rights reserved.. Espaol: Gua de recursos COVID-19 en el sur de Chicago, The Geography of Fear: Policing a Segregated Chicago. The original objective was to treat basic illness and to train nurses and interns. Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Disc Two Recorded between 1955 and 1963 on the Skokie Valley Route and Mundelein branch. What Time is Halloween Trick-or-Treating in Chicago? (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 687 is at Division and Larrabee on May 17, 1954. 5:02 Streamliner #300, northward from Edwardsville, February 14, 1955 This picture is the reverse direction, looking north from the westbound platform of the Englewood L at Halsted. The purpose was to find residents that were given Section 8 vouchers vs those who did not receive them. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. Martee Kelso Lost Stores in Chicago Chicago Loop Evanston Illinois Chicago Christmas Sears Tower KROCH'S & BRENTANO'S Chicago Street Clark Street Chicago Art Street Art Old Town Art Fair Colors along with a sign alerting northbound motorists to stay left of the open running tracks. In those days, the fastest way from the south side to the Loop was the Englewood L, which ended at 63rd Place and Loomis (1400 W.) And of course the Englewood business district was very prosperous. 05. Author David Sadowski The neighborhood surrounding the East 63rd Street L lost more than 83 percent of its population over the next 30 years. Immigrants typically lived in inadequate housing near railroads and industryin bunk houses, boxcars, and section houses. 5:20 #80, October 1954 In the twenty years from 1890 to 1910, Chicago's African-American population increased from 15,000 to approximately (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4108 is westbound on Madison at the Chicago River, running on the Madison-Fifth branch of Route 20. Many immigrants were fleeing poverty and war, with many others coming to Chicago in pursuit of economic prosperity. 17:25 (Car 187, Brighton Car House, December 13, 1951 regular service abandoned April 29, 1951) (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4008 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. It truly is a phenomenal resource, not only for those interested in transit history, but also for anyone researching Chicago or Twentieth Century urban life. 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.
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