The Union Stock Yard finally closed its doors on August 1, 1971, after nearly 106 years of operation. Copyright 2009-2018, DNAinfo. The date is June 17, 1955. Required fields are marked *. All Rights Reserved. 16:26 sounds recorded on board a PCC (early 1950s) 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. 5:09 Passenger interurban #9 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 6154 is southbound at Halsted and Congress on October 5, 1953. 03. The PCC is going to go northbound on Route 22 Clark-Wentworth. I see no turning track from southbound Western to eastbound 69th. The River Tunnels Photos 534, 535 & 536 Englewood, at 63rd & Halsted was one of Chicagos largest and most important commercial shopping districts outside of the loop. Total time: 79:30 Are We All Losing It? Chicago Loop. 4:56 Car 5706, January 16, 1954 (2) As can be seen from each side of the street in this photo, Western Ave. was auto dealer row for a mile or so to either side of 63rd St. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic555.jpg 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. Total time: 74:02 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4373 is on Western near the Douglas Park L on October 5, 1953. Building Chicagos Subways is in stock and now available for immediate shipment. 5:17 The "new" green streetcars - replaced the old, wooden-seat red ones. (The Census Bureau didn't begin to identify "non-Hispanic whites" as a separate category until 1980, when that group accounted for . Note the difference in fonts used for the numbers. During its heyday, there was Soft Sheen Products, a $100 million-a-year. Looks like between 1950 & 55 Burke Desoto/Plymouth became Burke Ford. I remember old Chicago trolley buses from when I was a little girl. Roy lived in the Roseland area since his birth in 1963, at 103rd Street & Wentworth Avenue. Chicago in the 1950s - The Trolley Dodger Chicago in the 1950s October 29, 2019 15 Comments You would be forgiven for not recognizing this location, but that's the Western Avenue station on the Humboldt Park "L", just north of North Avenue. 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. They were in various neighborhood, suburbs. 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 . National Archives Stateway Gardens, a housing project on Chicago's South Side, housed nearly 7,000 people in 1973. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7284 is on Western at the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on October 8, 1953. There were 300 Pullmans in all. These restrictive covenants were outlawed in 1948, allowing Black residents to begin to spread out beyond the Black Belt and to pursue a middle-class life in better-resourced communities. My parents came from PR in 1950s. After that, the streetcars had to use the 77th and Vincennes barn. $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. I remember as a kid in late 1961 seeing the Humboldt Pk tracks from my seat on the Logan Sq El. People wait for a streetcar in downtown Chicago. A man walks down Clark Street in Chicago in 1940. (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), The conductor of CTA 7156 is throwing a track switch at Western and Archer on November 17, 1954. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7038 is on Western at Van Buren on June 11, 1956. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7123 at Western and 69th on January 28, 1954. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4201, operating on Route 36 Broadway-State, has apparently been diverted from State Street, possibly due to a parade, and is northbound on Dearborn at Lake Street. Streetcars were on rails, so they could maintain such clearances. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4393 is on Western at 21st on July 6, 1950. Third Avenue El (New York City): (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4053 at Western and Leland on June 10, 1956. 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. the streetcar tracks turning between Halsted and 63rd. Maps of Chicagos early ethnic composition show that immigrants and their descendants lived in clusters. Pullman post-war PCCs did not disappear in one fell swoop. by Eddie from Chicago, via Flickr, Gage Park High School undermined by budget cuts, constant attacks. I was born on the south side then raised in Logan Square. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. A few years later, the CHA placed a light-skinned Black woman named Betty Howard in the previously all-white Trumbull Park Homes. Another treasure trove of photos thanks to the Wien-Criss Archive. Interesting experience for me,mind you I am Latina searching for African Americans to complete 2.5hrs survey ?and more details no problem. The Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company was the first to successfully obtain right-of-way and permission to build an elevated passenger railway in Chicago. On the northeast corner, the 1933 art deco Sears store building with its tenant, the Hillmans Pure Foods grocery store are partially obscured by the Arthur Murray sign and the one in back of it. 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. 3:32 Box motor #5, May 24, 1953 The restaurant that once occupied this corner space had been gutted in a spectacular fire during the Summer of 1953, along with a tavern next door on the North Avenue side. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic566.jpg Yusay beer stands out on a lot of the photos. Went to kindergarten there. 4:19 Interurbans #83 and #80, October 1954 The South Side's 87th Street, for instance, was a stronghold of Black businesses, particularly during the 1980s. ca. #535 looks north on Halsted from the L station, this was the main crossroads of the Englewood shopping district. 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. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic544.jpg From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. Constructed over alleys through the South side, the Alley "'L" opened for regular service on June 6, 1892. . After returning from World War II, American service members brought back memories and souvenirs from the South Pacific. There were 28 buildings which was originally housed for 11,000 residents but soon became over 27,000- Population Crisis These demarcations were shaped by racist sentiments toward Black residents and non-whites and manifested through urban planning, housing policies, discriminatory banking, and other practicesall effectively confining people from different demographic groups to certain parts of the city. By 1960 there were 32,371 Puerto Rican residents in Chicago, a number that more than doubled within a decade. Hollstein School was a one-room schoolhouse in Tinley Park. Street Scenes of Chicago in the 1970s Through Amazing Photos October 24, 2020 1970s, Chicago, Illinois, life & culture, street Charles William (Bill) Brubaker (1926-2002) was a member of the Chicago-based architecture firm Perkins & Will from 1950 until 1998. 1. 02. 08. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7160, viewed from the Douglas Park L (todays Pink Line), is operating on Western at 21st on June 15, 1955. 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 Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto: In Chicago, most of the South and West sides have 40 to 60 percent of residents living below the poverty level. Yes, there were significant traffic jams in Chicago back in 1958. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic558.jpg (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7236 is at Archer and Western on November 17, 1954. Photo 513 has a pet peeve caption as far as I am concerned. 1:39 The deadliest tornado hit on April 21, 1967, traveling through Oak Lawn and the South Side of Chicago, killing 33 and injuring 500. . After Chicagos incorporation by Yankees in 1837, European immigrants flocked to the city through the early 1900s; Irish, Jewish, Polish, German, Italian, Czech/Bohemian, Swedish, and Lithuanian immigrants among them. Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1s: To commemorate these anniversaries, we have written a new book, Building Chicagos Subways. 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. It should be taught in school. The tracks going to the right were for the 67th/69th/71st line, which used Western to travel between 69th and 71st. All copies purchased through The Trolley Dodger will be signed by the author. Death of an Interurban 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. Wonderful shots as usual. In 1991 the Chicago White Sox began to play in a new Comiskey Park across the street from the old stadium. 3. White flight caused redlining as the community was now at almost 90% black by 1960. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 248 is at Crosby and Larrabee on May 17, 1954. 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. The big building on other side is the old Madison carbarn. 13. At the turn of the twenty-first century, as the City realized the projects sat on prime real estate, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley introduced a plan to transform public housing in 1999. Queensboro Bridge Company (New York City): From the 1910s to the 1920s, thousands of Mexicans were recruited by industrial contractors to work seasonally in the Midwest, in some cases as strikebreakers in the steel mills. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western and Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. 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. This picture is the reverse direction, looking north from the westbound platform of the Englewood L at Halsted. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCCs 4103 and 4076 pass each other while crossing the Chicago River on Madison Street. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7113 is in an area where tracks are being worked on, and is crossing over from one track to another using a temporary switch. The locality has a violent crime rate of 743 crimes per 100,000 individuals and a property crime rate of 2,830 crimes per 100,000 individuals. In the early years of the twentieth century, Chicago was the fastest-growing city in the U.S. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic530.jpg Altoona & Logan Valley: Look at the bottom of the photo. 06. ISBN 1467129380, 9781467129381 As a field interviewer I had to look for displaced residents from the projects. For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here. Not quite CSL sold it in 1920s, but amazingly close! Rockwell is 2600 West. Shaker Heights Rapid Transit: . Capital Transit: Visit the website (wttw.com/firsthand) to explore the elements of the project. Another fantastic series of photos. The South Side experienced a population shift during the move to suburbs following World War II. Chance The Rapper Will Host 'Saturday Night Live' Next Month, How To Look Like Svengoolie: Sven Shows You How To Do The Makeup (VIDEO). I wish they could just appreciate from afar without taking and still destroying everything in their way. Keep up the excellent effort. Toledo & Eastern: Striking B&W Photos Capture the Black Experience in 1940s South Side Chicago. 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. 12. Many of the photos show the same area from a number of different angles, giving a snapshot early transportation worked and everyday life through a look at businesses, fashion, architecture and more. 18. This segment focuses on the Chicago Outfit during the period after Prohibition. 06. These housing projects, as they became known, are represented by orange dots on the interactive map. It was converted to apartments in 1985. 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. Of this, 46.22% are males and 53.78% are females. Chicago Southside 1950's 95 square miles of the 228 square miles were considered the "south side". (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4059 on Western at 28th on November 20, 1955. Your email address will not be published. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7208 is on Western near 34th on September 3, 1950. 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). (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7213, the last streetcar to operate in Chicago, is on Western at 21st on July 16, 1951. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 5248 at Vincennes and 105th on November 27, 1949. 3. In the background, you can see the viaduct which is now part of the 606 Trail. Original Rainbow Cone on Western Ave in Beverly, Chicago: Grandma would take us on the bus to visit the cemetery and after we would stop at the Rainbow Cone! Re: pic508, car 4008 on Wabash Avenue. (Wien-Criss Archive), An unidentified CTA red car is on Halsted at 63rd Street on September 16, 1953. In 1950, Miller's Pub was a dark, no-frills saloon and a reputed front for a . st jerome croatian catholic church - celebtates 104th year. 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. This view is looking south along Western at 71st St. Open in Google Maps Foursquare 1312 W 111th St, Chicago, IL 60643 (773) 238-7171 homeofthehoagy 1,461. Building Chicagos subways was national news and a matter of considerable civic pridemaking it a Second City no more! With yt people spreading almost all across Chicago and changing so much of the neighborhoods cultures and its peoples.. its hard to imagine those areas without them. 4:00 Master Unit car #74, August 8, 1953 . 4:13 Loco #12 4. 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. While the Census doesnt follow traditional Chicago neighborhood boundaries, areas of Englewood, Park Manor and Woodlawn have poverty rates above 60 percent. This led to disinvestment and redlining to . 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!). 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. 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. Two restaurants were bombed last weekend, the damage at one estimated at $40,000. It appears that the street has already been made a one-way, which did not happen until November 16, 1953. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7012 at Western and Congress, crossing over the new expressway, on June 11, 1956. Amazing! (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 7271 is northbound on Clark at Roosevelt. 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. To date, we have received over 559,000 page views, for which we are very grateful. Chicago's South Side. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7156, sporting unusual yellow numbers, is on Western at Van Buren on August 13, 1954. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4050 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7239 is on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. 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. The segment actually ran not quite two and a half miles from 89th St. to the 10800 block of Vincennes (where 108th St. would have been had it gone through). He is still stuck on the poverty line, working a food delivery job to support his girlfriend Tami and their son Freddie. Extending trolly lines is much easier and economical than L tracks. 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. 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 prewar PCC 4039 is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of Route 4. 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.. (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. The Last Street Railway 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 developments were primarily clustered into six groups in addition to scattered sites with low-rise buildings and row houses. In my book Chicago Trolleys (page 107) there is a picture of track work being done at this location on July 17, 1954. The construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the 60s further othered the Street State corridor. (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. While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. The comments about the photo at Division and Crosby are confirmed by the street sign at left showing that street to be Burling Street. Chicago Skyline Downtown Chicago Chicago Restaurants Chicago Illinois Chicago Area Chicago City White Castle Restaurant White Castle Hamburgers South Side Chicago Your caption says this streetcar is on 77th St. No, it is on Vincennes Ave., in front of the 77th St. barn, heading north. There were approximately 813,000 Black residents in Chicago by 1960. 04. Chicago nightlife history is full of fun and fascinating stories. 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." 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. 09. Burned in 1980s and in what was a real mindblower, the reporter on scene actually called it an old CTA facility. What makes this picture so interesting is the road sign, Keep left of tracks. Thats because, precisely at this spot, the streetcar tracks moved off the street and onto private right-of-way between Vincennes Ave. and the main line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad. Riverdale. 05. RRCNSLR 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. 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. 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. 1.5k Views. The discriminatory practice known as redlining was a color-coded classification system implemented by the Federal Housing Administration that determined the value of housing based on the racial demographics of a neighborhood. 09. 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. Baltimore Transit: (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western-Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. 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. 4 Board of Trustees/Directors minutes May 1952-Oct 1956 draft copy.