Size: 7 microfilm reels. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. During the 1950's, the time that the Younger family was living in Chicago, whites and blacks were living completely separate lives and a majority of the blacks were living in poverty. Can The New Affordable Requirements Ordinance Help Solve Chicagos Housing Inequality? 5:09 Passenger interurban #9 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7156, sporting unusual yellow numbers, is on Western at Van Buren on August 13, 1954. The significance that play takes place on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s because families like the Youngers experienced segregation from the white community.. What is the community? Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections. 10:36 (recorded May 3-7, 1958 line abandoned July 1958) In 1950, 5% of the Chicago area Jews lived in suburbs. As always, if you have any information to share about these pictures, or simply have a question or comment, do not hesitate to let us know. Required fields are marked *. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCCs 4103 and 4076 pass each other while crossing the Chicago River on Madison Street. CHA admitted they lost track of thousands of displaced people as they moved to other Black neighborhoods. Back then, you could live that close to the steel mills. 01. (Wien-Criss Archive), Passengers are getting off northbound CTA 7192 at Western and Van Buren on October 10, 1952. From north to south, they were Hull House, the Stockyards, Blue Island, South Chicago, East Chicago, and as far as Gary, Indiana. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. Last Run of the Hagerstown & Frederick: During the 1940s Mercury Records was founded from a Chicago base and emerged as a viable rival to the established major companies. The purpose was to find residents that were given Section 8 vouchers vs those who did not receive them. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4008 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. You can see the streetcar trackage reverting to street running headed south. In any case, thanks again for all you offer on this website. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 153 is northbound at Halsted and Congress on October 5, 1953. 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. All rights reserved.. Espaol: Gua de recursos COVID-19 en el sur de Chicago, The Geography of Fear: Policing a Segregated Chicago. The shots of Chicago will surprise you. Two things in this picture: Another fantastic series of photos. While the Gallaghers are said to live on Wallace Street, the house is actually located on Homan Avenue. It is very unlikely that he will ever be able to recoup his investment, but we support his efforts at preserving this important history, and sharing it with railfans everywhere. The photos come from the Illinois Department of Transportation and appear to have been made for the Chicago Park District's Engineering Section, according to the university. CHICAGO If you think your neighborhood has changed since you first moved in, you should see what it looked like 60 years ago. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 640 is running under the L on Halsted at 63rd Place on May 25, 1954. Maps of Chicagos early ethnic composition show that immigrants and their descendants lived in clusters. The streetcars shown here were Western Ave. cars, running east on 69th St. to get to the Vincennes / 77th St. barn. Rear View of Apartment House with Wood Staircase, South Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, April 1941. 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!). 01. Early 1960s: Unequal learning opportunities lead parents in Chicago's South Side to protest public school . (1) The red-and-white bus in the background belonged to the South Suburban Safeway Lines. As he led a march through Marquette Park on the Southwest Side, he was attacked with bricks by a racist white mob. South Side Chicago. Although the show is set in Chicagos Back of the Yards neighborhood, the house used for filming is actually located in the citys North Lawndale neighborhood. Shaker Heights Rapid Transit: I have produced some comments about your most recent photo group (Chicago in the 1950s). The Chatham 14 Theatre . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7253 is on Western at Leland (by the Ravenswood L, now the Brown Line) on June 10, 1956. By the 1960s, Black residents had moved into "grade B" (blue) communities in the South Side, such as Roseland and Beverly. #535 looks north on Halsted from the L station, this was the main crossroads of the Englewood shopping district. Yelp Says If You Want To Open A Business, Do It In These 5 Neighborhoods, When It Comes To Nuts, Squirrels Are Crazy, But Not Like A Fox, At UC, Katy Perry Jokes With Mom About Song 'You Pray For Me About': WATCH, Elena Delle Donne's Fiance Proposed On Chicago Dog Beach (And Pup Helped), Decapitated Doll Heads Seen Around West Town Spark Curiosity, Concern, Look Inside This Award-Winning School Converted to Luxury Apartments, TGIF: 13 Stories To Remind You How Awesome Chicago Is This Weekend, Thanks, La Nina: This Winter Expected To Be Snowier Than Usual, New Short Film 'BlacKorea' Set In Englewood, Solo Cup Is Psyched The New 'Star Wars' Movie Is Called 'Solo', Jake Arrieta's Most Incredible Delivery Came From His Nose Last Night. The YMCA Hotel was on the west side of the street; the car is northbound, as evidenced by the Downtown head sign. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive). I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s and '60sliterally across the street from U.S. Steel. 16. There are different types of segregation beyond the Black-white binary that normally, and rightfully, comes to mind. It radiates and lies south of the city's downtown area, the Chicago Loop . 04. A community can be described as a collection of individuals who share a common location or trait.People who live in the same neighborhood, work at the same company, or attend the same school together are . 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. Roger W/Flickr 2. African Americans who settled in northern cities like Chicago, New York, and Detroit earned at least twice as much as those who stayed in the South in 1930, according to work by Leah Boustan, an. Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto: 03. This view is looking south along Western at 71st St. Properties covered include: So, my best guess is this picture was taken during the summer of 1954. The city, which had been 85.9 percent white in 1950 and 76.4 percent in 1960, saw that proportion fall to 65.6 percent in 1970 and 49.6 percent in 1980. Look at the bottom of the photo. Chapter Titles: In the mid-1950s Chicago faced its first postindustrial crisis as the major meatpacking companies began to close their production facilities. 1960. There were 300 Pullmans in all. Toledo & Eastern: Sixty-three percent of the time, Black testers posing as potential renters holding CHA Housing Choice Vouchers experienced some form of discrimination. 06. 1:39 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4108 is westbound on Madison at the Chicago River, running on the Madison-Fifth branch of Route 20. Potomac Edison (Hagerstown & Frederick): (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4044 is on Western at the Douglas Park L on June 22, 1955. Open in Google Maps. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7213, the last streetcar to operate in Chicago, is on Western at 21st on July 16, 1951. (Really! 1. Your financial contributions help make this web site better, and are greatly appreciated. The University of Illinois at Chicago's digital photo collections . In Chicago, most of the South and West sides have 40 to 60 percent of residents living below the poverty level. 5:37 Cars #606, 605, and 601, December 31, 1954 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. A few years later, the CHA placed a light-skinned Black woman named Betty Howard in the previously all-white Trumbull Park Homes. They were not all taken at the same time, however. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4238 is southbound on Wabash, crossing the Chicago River. 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. Are We All Losing It? Building Chicagos subways was national news and a matter of considerable civic pridemaking it a Second City no more! 1. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7012 at Western and Congress, crossing over the new expressway, on June 11, 1956. (The Census Bureau didn't begin to identify "non-Hispanic whites" as a separate category until 1980, when that group accounted for . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7243 is on Western at the Chicago River on June 10, 1956. What Time is Halloween Trick-or-Treating in Chicago? Black communities bore the brunt of the closings of fifty-plus Chicago Public Schools that were shuttered during former Mayor Rahm Emanuels administration. 10. As a field interviewer I had to look for displaced residents from the projects. If youre ever in the neighborhood, the TV house is located at 2119 South Homan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60623. First, they were all taken in Chicago during the 1950s. 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. Make No Little Plans Women approach a news stand in Chicago in 1940. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4060 is southbound at Wabash and Wacker, running on Route 4 Cottage Grove. Disc One Some southbound They were in various neighborhood, suburbs. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7240 is at 69th and Morgan on October 25, 1954. 143 followers . This corresponds to the white on dark green format of the 54 Illinois plates. At one point, Chicago boasted the largest Irish population and the second-largest Polish population of any city in the world. Chicago's South Side April 1941: Life In 'The Black Belt' In April 1941, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam arrived in Chicago, Illinois. All copies purchased through The Trolley Dodger will be signed by the author. During the 1940s to 1960s, the second ghetto is driven with tensions over housing and the dynamics of neighborhood change due to the rapid growth of black community. The Second Ghetto Unfortunately, public housing did not solve Chicago's housing problems. Streetcars were on rails, so they could maintain such clearances. The South Side has been home to some of the most significant figures in the history of American politics. You can compare the different CTA paint schemes on the first two cars. Between 1950 and 1960 Chicago's population shrank for the first time in its history, as factory jobs leveled off and people moved to the suburbs. The cross street is 63rd St. Cincinnati Street Railway: 0:56 PCC car 1557, Route 20 Cabin John line, July 19, 1953 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. It was converted to apartments in 1985. Many thousands gathered to celebrate the starting of work on the subway. 01. 4:51 Since 1950, there have been 271 tornadoes recorded across . (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. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic535.jpg Stunning Vintage Historical Photos Show What Chicago Looked Like In The 1960s. The River Tunnels Mexican residents of the area around Jane Addamss Hull House settlement housetodays University Villagehad a similar fate as the Puerto Ricans. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4096 is westbound on Madison, crossing over the Chicago River. And this photo is at 69th and Western, showing a northbound Western car turning east on 69th to head to the 77th St. barn. A more detailed 1950s map showcases crowded clusters of Irish, Italian, and smaller ethnic groups establishing new communities across the city. For Shipping to US Addresses: 06. If the station was open, there would be a sign advertising this, similar to ones seen in some of the other pictures in this post. Altoona & Logan Valley/Johnstown Traction: My Auntie Stell and her co-workers, Chicago. Most famously, the Clarks were a middle-class Black Chicago family that in 1951 attempted to move into a Cicero apartment, but couldnt last a day after thousands of white protesters set their belongings and the whole property on fire. Includes both Electroliners, standard cars, and locomotives. (Wien-Criss Archive). 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. Contract-buying schemes during the 1950s and 1960s cost Black families between $3 billion and $4 billion, according to "The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago: New Findings on the Lasting Toll of Predatory Housing Contracts," published in 2019 by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center 02. I LOVE this article! The station was closed in 1952, probably just a few months before this picture was taken. Disc Two For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here. (Wien-Criss Archive), The conductor of CTA 7156 is throwing a track switch at Western and Archer on November 17, 1954. All Rights Reserved. 75 years since the State Street Subway opened (October 17, 1943) In the twenty years from 1890 to 1910, Chicago's African-American population increased from 15,000 to approximately One day I got off at Damen and walked under the tracks to see where they went. All those seem to date between 1952 and 1954. Many immigrants were fleeing poverty and war, with many others coming to Chicago in pursuit of economic prosperity. In the background, you can see the viaduct which is now part of the 606 Trail. Located in what used to a Buick showroom, it features a large taproom with a BYOF policy that encourages delivery. Known as Bronzeville, the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. (Wien-Criss Archive), PCC meets PCC in this famous Bill Hoffman photo, showing CTA PCC streetcar 4373 on Western Avenue, while a Garfield Park L train crosses on Van Buren temporary trackage. along with a sign alerting northbound motorists to stay left of the open running tracks. Chicago nightlife history is full of fun and fascinating stories. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7039 is at Western and 71st on August 12, 1955. 07. Seems to have been a good choice since the same building is still a Ford dealer today. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic512.jpg 2008- University of Michigan launch a study Moving Towards Opportunity. 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. Copyright 2009-2018, New York Public Radio. Your caption says this streetcar is on 77th St. No, it is on Vincennes Ave., in front of the 77th St. barn, heading north. Subways Since 1960 That would be the old Paulina L that ran to Logan Square and Humboldt Park from 1895 to 1951. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4373 and others at the Western and 79th loop on November 23, 1952. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 601 at Halsted, Grand, and Milwaukee on May 17, 1954. Nowadays, transit agencies have style manuals, used to maintain consistency, but such was not the case in the early 1950s. With its neighborhoods, parks, museums, and universities, the South Side continues to play an important role in the social, cultural, political, and economic life of the city. 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. #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. 5:07 December 31. 29:34 (Johnstown Traction recordings were made August 9, 1953) CTA PCC 4144 is southbound on Halsted. Total time: 74:02 Those canopies were short-lived after the end of streetcar service, as buses eventually ran into them. 2. Disc Three 08. Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. 10. 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. 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. 3:45 Box motor #5 This bar is well-known by DePaul University students who frequent here on the weekends, and god knows also the weeknights. 2023 2022 South Side Weekly. So the suburban bus line went as far as 63rd Place and Halsted (next to the L station). ), Now Available On Compact Disc The highest ratio of discriminatory acts to race-related tests occurred in the Near North Side neighborhood, where over half of the tests involved race discrimination, the Chicago Commission on Human Relations and the Chicago Lawyers Committee found. The plan was ostensibly intended to decentralize Black poverty and relocate residents to mixed-income housing in integrated neighborhoods. Chicago Southside 1950's 95 square miles of the 228 square miles were considered the "south side". Price: $24.99 Capital Transit: Constructed over alleys through the South side, the Alley "'L" opened for regular service on June 6, 1892. . 01. 4. Todays photos have two things in common. Between 1950 and 1960, most white residents in Chicago's south side Woodlawn neighborhood fled as poor blacks moved in. All Rights Reserved. chicago Go To Homepage Before You Go Re: pic508, car 4008 on Wabash Avenue. 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. In its aftermath, white flight from Chicago accelerated. 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. These housing projects, as they became known, are represented by orange dots on the interactive map. 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. Looks like between 1950 & 55 Burke Desoto/Plymouth became Burke Ford. By 1960 there were 32,371 Puerto Rican residents in Chicago, a number that more than doubled within a decade. A rapid exodus of Jews from the South Side began in the 1960s due to white flight. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 7057, a product of the St. Louis Car Company, is at Waveland and Halsted, the north end of Route 8. During the 1950s many residents called the northeast . (Wien-Criss Archive), Riverview Park at Western and Roscoe on June 10, 1956. 5:20 #80, October 1954 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7037 is on Western at the Chicago River on June 10, 1956. Edition illustrated The Dearborn-Milwaukee Subway 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. History. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western and Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4227 is on the turnback loop at Clark and Howard, the north end of Route 22. Where is Rembrandt in The Night Watch painting? 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