Total time (3 discs) 215:03. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have created clear lines of division between racial groups. Many immigrants were fleeing poverty and war, with many others coming to Chicago in pursuit of economic prosperity. The Robert Taylor Homes, located between 39th and 54th streets, had more than half of those apartments. Chicago Burnside Bums Gang - South Side Chicago White Street Gang Joe Barry 685 subscribers Subscribe 38 Share 13K views 11 years ago The farthest South White street gang in Chicago - the. The Civic Opera House is to the left. 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. First, they were all taken in Chicago during the 1950s. The price of $23.99 includes shipping within the United States. I trust that the Trolley Dodger blog will continue as it is regardless of the future of ChicagoTransit. Burned in 1980s and in what was a real mindblower, the reporter on scene actually called it an old CTA facility. In the twenty years from 1890 to 1910, Chicago's African-American population increased from 15,000 to approximately (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 248 is at Crosby and Larrabee on May 17, 1954. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4037 is on Western at the Chicago River on June 10, 1956 just one week before the end of streetcar service on Route 49. Wonderful shots as usual. 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 . 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In the background, you can see the viaduct which is now part of the 606 Trail. After its peak in the 1950s, a variety of changes influenced the direction the Outfit took. Thank you. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7044 is on Western at Leland on June 10, 1956. Potomac Edison (Hagerstown & Frederick): 5:17 Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Displaced Chapter Titles: 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. A few years later, the CHA placed a light-skinned Black woman named Betty Howard in the previously all-white Trumbull Park Homes. 12:40 Car #202 (ex-1202), between Springfield and Decatur, February 1955 After that, the streetcars had to use the 77th and Vincennes barn. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western and Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. The "new" green streetcars - replaced the old, wooden-seat red ones. 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. The 1919 Race Riots, which were part of the racial violence seen across the country during a period known as the Red Summer, were provoked by an attempt to enforce segregation in the waters of Lake Michigan. Disc Three (Wien-Criss Archive), A CTA prewar PCC is on Western at Congress on June 11, 1956. Under the Plan for Transformation, the City began to knock down the projects one by one like dominos. Newly rediscovered and digitized after 60 years, most of these audio recordings of Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee interurban trains are previously unheard, and include on-train recordings, run-bys, and switching. Looks like between 1950 & 55 Burke Desoto/Plymouth became Burke Ford. 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? 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. A more detailed 1950s map showcases crowded clusters of Irish, Italian, and smaller ethnic groups establishing new communities across the city. Riverdale is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago since 478 crimes are reported annually in a small population of just 13,000 people. It is such a same they did not have the foresight to keep these lines going. The South Side experienced a population shift during the move to suburbs following World War II. 4:51 (Wien-Criss Archive), Riverview Park at Western and Roscoe on June 10, 1956. 1950s The Neighbourhood Siding Universe T Tom Dudones My Chicago - I grew up on the South Side in the 1950s & sixties. The cross street is 63rd St. (Wien-Criss Archive), The date at which this photo of CTA PCC 4421 could have been taken, southbound on Clark at Van Buren, is a bit of a mystery. This picture was taken on June 17, 1955 at Western and 71st. Look at this classic car in Rockford back in 1956. Their early presence is not reflected in our interactive map because the U.S. Census did not accurately track the Mexican population in Chicago during this time period. What was South Side Chicago like in the 1950s? ), Now Available On Compact Disc With maybe at least a few St.Louis-built cars being included in some of those orders; the Pullman cars were largely gone from the streets by the end of 1955. This picture is the reverse direction, looking north from the westbound platform of the Englewood L at Halsted. Store which was acquired by the Sears interests who replaced the original Becker-Ryan building. According to the Hyde Park Herald, since 1916, restrictive covenants kept Chicagos neighborhoods white from the northern gates of Hyde Park at 35th and Drexel Boulevard to Woodlawn, Park Manor, South Shore, Windsor Park, and all the far-flung white communities of the South Side.. Englewood Hospital that served the South Side of Chicago for nearly a hundred years was founded in 1894 as Englewood Union Hospital and was located at 426 West 69th Street. They were not all taken at the same time, however. Required fields are marked *. And this photo is at 69th and Western, showing a northbound Western car turning east on 69th to head to the 77th St. barn. 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. 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. Here we see the curved track from 63rd place along with the nicely highlighted companion overhead wire. The deadliest tornado hit on April 21, 1967, traveling through Oak Lawn and the South Side of Chicago, killing 33 and injuring 500. . 4:19 Interurbans #83 and #80, October 1954 Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. Take a look at these stunning historical photos of Chicago in the 1960s that shows the street, roads, transport, nightlife, and everyday life. Western Ave. cars had used the carbarn at 69th and Ashland until it closed. 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. Late 1950s. RRCNSLR (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 601 at Halsted, Grand, and Milwaukee on May 17, 1954. Your financial contributions help make this web site better, and are greatly appreciated. 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. He is still stuck on the poverty line, working a food delivery job to support his girlfriend Tami and their son Freddie. 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. During the 1940s Mercury Records was founded from a Chicago base and emerged as a viable rival to the established major companies. 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. Effectively acting as sundown towns, suburbs such as Cicero utilized police and mob violence to draw a line in the concrete. I always knew about racism growing up in the 70s, recall seeing the hippies in Old town. 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. Brace Yourself: Chicago's 'Hawk' Winter Wind Turns 50, Lin-Manuel Miranda Touts New Song To Raise Money For Puerto Rico: LISTEN, 'Stranger Things 2' Uses Wrong Skyline For 1980s Chicago, Obama Doesn't Want To Take A Selfie With You, And This Is Why, Chicago Is Close To Prince Harry's Heart: His GF Is A Northwestern Alumna. Re: pic508, car 4008 on Wabash Avenue. The color pictures were taken by the late Bill Hoffman. The construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the 60s further othered the Street State corridor. After returning from World War II, American service members brought back memories and souvenirs from the South Pacific. Chicago Skyline Downtown Chicago Chicago Restaurants Chicago Illinois Chicago Area Chicago City White Castle Restaurant White Castle Hamburgers South Side Chicago 12. While the Gallaghers are said to live on Wallace Street, the house is actually located on Homan Avenue. 05. The State Street Subway Amazing! https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic556.jpg Shaker Heights Rapid Transit: Google view shows the approximate location from which #536 was taken. View of members or supporters of the Almighty BlackStone Rangers as they march on 63rd Street, in Chicago's southside, Chicago, Illinois, 1969. White Flight, which I titled "Midnight Flight: One family's experience of White Flight and the racial transformation of Chicago's South Side (an online novel)" which you can read here for free . Black residents did not enjoy the same geographic freedom. PCCs were taken off Madison on December 13, 1953. 17. 05. The comments about the photo at Division and Crosby are confirmed by the street sign at left showing that street to be Burling Street. CHA high-rises were stigmatized by the city and the media, which portrayed them as vertical drug-ridden ganglands. Photos 534, 535 & 536 Englewood, at 63rd & Halsted was one of Chicagos largest and most important commercial shopping districts outside of the loop. (David Sadowski Photo). Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2018 143 followers . 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. Foursquare. All Rights Reserved. This view is looking south along Western at 71st St. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7037 is on Western at the Chicago River on June 10, 1956. Yusay beer stands out on a lot of the photos. Also, its wonderful to see all the old advertising signs on the street cars and the buildings. 02. By 1928, there were at least six Mexican settlements parallel to Lake Michigan that were referred to as colonias. 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. The introduction to Polk's Chicago Directory 1923 provides a brief history of Chicago directories and a list of published volumes. 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. Racially restrictive covenants were also common in the Chicago area, as in the rest of the country. This is our 241st post, and we are gradually creating a body of work and an online resource for the benefit of all railfans, everywhere. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4008 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7208 is on Western near 34th on September 3, 1950. With all the different types of people Chicago attracted at this time, the entertainment industry became a powerful force to be reckoned with. 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. Capital Transit: The Second Ghetto Unfortunately, public housing did not solve Chicago's housing problems. All rights reserved.. Espaol: Gua de recursos COVID-19 en el sur de Chicago, The Geography of Fear: Policing a Segregated Chicago. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4227 is on the turnback loop at Clark and Howard, the north end of Route 22. 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. Jacqueline Serrato is the Weeklys editor-in-chief. It was converted to apartments in 1985. Located on the south side of Chicago, Bronzeville became an established neighborhood around the turn of the twentieth century. Southside 1-1000 - 1950 is rated/received certificates of: Finland:K-16 Sweden:15 USA:Passed (National Board of Review) USA:Approved (PCA #14768) West Germany:16. 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. The Watch for Reopening sign in the window, visible just above the newsstand in the Humboldt Park L photo, makes me think this was taken in early 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. 06. 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. 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). In my book Chicago Trolleys (page 107) there is a picture of track work being done at this location on July 17, 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. Andre Kristopans says it is Crossing under CNW and PRR at Rockwell. We mapped out hundreds of the photos and compared them with Google Street Viewto show just how much Chicago has changed. Buses terminate at the nearby Howard L station. John White/U.S. The Last Street Railway Greg Nye. by Eddie from Chicago, via Flickr, Gage Park High School undermined by budget cuts, constant attacks. 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. 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. (312 . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4060 is southbound on Western at 66th on October 9, 1955. There are miscellanous directories available for later yearsbusiness directories and . I remember old Chicago trolley buses from when I was a little girl. $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. Take a trip underground and see how Chicagos I Will spirit overcame challenges and persevered to help with the successful building of the subways that move millions. (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. Two restaurants were bombed last weekend, the damage at one estimated at $40,000. the streetcar tracks turning between Halsted and 63rd. There were 28 buildings which was originally housed for 11,000 residents but soon became over 27,000- Population Crisis The YMCA Hotel was on the west side of the street; the car is northbound, as evidenced by the Downtown head sign. Two CTA bus routes served the 79th and Western station: West 79th (to almost Cicero Ave.) and South Western (to 119th St.) The buses shown were manufactured by ACF Brill, probably in the 1940s, because they had stick shifts. What I would also love to see is pictures of what the Chicago neighborhoods and its residents looked like during that specific time period. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4373 and others at the Western and 79th loop on November 23, 1952. Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott built in 1907, Other Restaurant & Fast Food Advertising for sale | eBay, PHOTO - CHICAGO - SOLDIERS FIELD - AERIAL - NIGHT - SKYLINE BACKGROUND - ALL-STAR GAME - 1953, Chicago, Marshall Field & Co. The conductor then raises the trolley pole onto the parallel wire. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4101 is westbound on Madison, but where did it cross the Chicago & North Western? There were three subway anniversaries in 2018 in Chicago: 07. Beautiful Vintage Postcards of Chicago's Restaurants from the 1950s and 1960s. One of my enduring childhood memories, growing up in the 1970s and 1980s on Chicago's South Side, was something I called the "boundary." Seen as one of the most massive internal movements in United States history, it was an era that sparked the Harlem Renaissance . Length 128 pages Immigrants typically lived in inadequate housing near railroads and industryin bunk houses, boxcars, and section houses. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. The neighborhood surrounding the East 63rd Street L lost more than 83 percent of its population over the next 30 years. The date is June 17, 1955. Despite the Citys first settler, Jean-Baptiste Point DuSable, being of Haitian descent, Chicagos infamous segregation is still intact, and it joins a list of large cities with similar rates of racial polarization, such as Cleveland, Newark, Philadelphia, and Houston. During street car years, the Illinois Central RR owned the entire embankment. Their numbers fell off during the Depression amid intensified immigration crackdowns, according to researchers. South Side Chicago Chicago School Al Capone Al Capone's Chicago home, old Prairie avenue home, 7244 South Prairie Avenue. During the 1950s many residents called the northeast . 09. Photos depict intersections, streets, bridges, snow removal and other traffic features in the city, mainly along major streets. 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. Properties covered include: 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. We look forward to hearing from you. (The Census Bureau didn't begin to identify "non-Hispanic whites" as a separate category until 1980, when that group accounted for . There were 679 murders and . 05. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 640 is running under the L on Halsted at 63rd Place on May 25, 1954. Note the difference in fonts used for the numbers. 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.