(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. Squad cars block entrance to a block on Chicago's South Side after disturbances during which 10,000 persons milled about the area. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 4101 is westbound on Madison, but where did it cross the Chicago & North Western? https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic568.jpg Women approach a news stand in Chicago in 1940. along with a sign alerting northbound motorists to stay left of the open running tracks. A 1920s map by sociologist Frederic M. Thrasher placed the Polish and Bohemian enclaves throughout the entire West Side, including the Lower West Side near Halsted Street; Germans occupied the northern lakefront, with Jewish people settling north of Madison Street and also along the southern lakefront. The plan was ostensibly intended to decentralize Black poverty and relocate residents to mixed-income housing in integrated neighborhoods. Wonderful shots as usual. The heart of the Englewood shopping district on Chicago's South Side, photographed looking north on Halsted Street from the 63rd Street elevated train platform, circa May 1945. Here we see the curved track from 63rd place along with the nicely highlighted companion overhead wire. 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? In the 1950s, South Side Jewish communities also formed in Jeffery Manor, Beverly, and Calumet Heights. Stunning Vintage Historical Photos Show What Chicago Looked Like In The 1960s. The Trolley Dodger On the Air 02. 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. Author David Sadowski Join us in looking back on three swanky nightclubs from the '60s. The South Side's 87th Street, for instance, was a stronghold of Black businesses, particularly during the 1980s. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4004 is on Western at 26th on June 7, 1956. The materials include articles, correspondence, flyers, news clippings and reminisces. During street car years, the Illinois Central RR owned the entire embankment. 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. 60 years since the West Side Subway opened (June 22, 1958) Two laws in 1947, the Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act and the Relocation Act, helped create the Chicago Land Clearance Commission, enabling the City to raze areas that it deemed blighted without regard for who it would displace. Late 1950s. The other bus company running from the south suburbs into Englewood was the Suburban Transit System, which ran primarily east and west along 95th St. out to Oak Lawn and beyond. 07. Disc Three 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 first order to build rapid transit cars from PCC streetcars was in June 1953 for 150 cars; followed by a 100 car order in Feb. 1954, a 20 car order in Dec. 1954, an 80 car order in June 1955 and a 50 car order in Dec. 1955. All copies purchased through The Trolley Dodger will be signed by the author. Price: $15.99 I LOVE this article! Jacqueline Serrato is the Weeklys editor-in-chief. 06. March 20, 2019. Another clue that helps pinpoint the date is the light lettering on dark background seen on license plates in this image. 1. Disc One There were three subway anniversaries in 2018 in Chicago: 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. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Note the dark areas where some touch-up painting has been done on the PCC. I was born on the south side then raised in Logan Square. Todays photos have two things in common. 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. 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. 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. Railroad Record Club North Shore Line Rarities 1955-1963 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. But when industrial employment dried up in the 1950s and '60s, it descended into poverty and crime. (Wien-Criss Archive), The Western and Berwyn loop on June 10, 1956. 16. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7227 is on Western at Bross on October 15, 1954. 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. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic535.jpg 05. And we thank you for sharing this helpful bit of history! We look forward to hearing from you. In the background, you can see the viaduct which is now part of the 606 Trail. To replace workers at local factories, business brought in w. So, my best guess is this picture was taken during the summer of 1954. CHA high-rises were stigmatized by the city and the media, which portrayed them as vertical drug-ridden ganglands. Puerto Rican people are the second-largest Latinx group in Chicago. 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. 4. Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2018 4:17 Car 306 (ex-AE&FRE), September 27, 1953 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCC 7271 is northbound on Clark at Roosevelt. So we're diving into that jet-setting, Mad Men time when Michigan Avenue became the "Mag Mile.". 5:37 Cars #606, 605, and 601, December 31, 1954 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7213, the last streetcar to operate in Chicago, is on Western at 21st on July 16, 1951. US-born citizens make up 85.22% of the resident pool in South Side Chicago, while non-US-born citizens account for 7.1%. Look at the bottom of the photo. Streetcars were on rails, so they could maintain such clearances. Interesting experience for me,mind you I am Latina searching for African Americans to complete 2.5hrs survey ?and more details no problem. and You can see the shadow of the now-gone Ogden Avenue viaduct at the bottom of the photo. 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. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s and '60sliterally across the street from U.S. Steel. 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They were concentrated in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the North Side and are credited for pioneering the fight against displacement due to gentrification spurred by the expanding DePaul University campusa fight they lost. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. In the early years of the twentieth century, Chicago was the fastest-growing city in the U.S. Another 537 were injured, more than half of whom were Black. 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. 04. 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. 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 PCC 4262 is on 77th, by the car barn at 77th and Vincennes. Amazing! Through the citys use of eminent domain, much of that neighborhood, which included Black, Italian, Greek, and Jewish residents, was razed in the 1960s for the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway and the development of the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus. 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. Total time 73:14 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 . A rapid exodus of Jews from the South Side began in the 1960s due to white flight. Visit the website (wttw.com/firsthand) to explore all of the elements of the project. Where is Rembrandt in The Night Watch painting? Chicago's South Side April 1941: Life In 'The Black Belt' In April 1941, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam arrived in Chicago, Illinois. 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). The Southeast Side is a description that the city itself continues to resist, including this neighborhood with all of Chicago's South Side communities. 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. Capital Transit: Up until the 1940s, Black residents were confined to this corridor, better known as the Black Belt, which ran along State Street roughly between Roosevelt Road (12th Street) and 79th Street. Our resident South side history expert M. E. writes: I have a lot of comments about your latest post #241. Photo 530 is at the south end of the Vincennes Ave. private right-of-way segment at the 10800 block of Vincennes (108th St. did not go through to Vincennes, there were no intersections along Vincennes between 107th St. and 109th St.). Then, Douglas Park L trains used these tracks from 1954-58. Most resided in Humboldt Park with Division Street being the heart of the neighborhood. Images of America What was South Side Chicago like in the 1950s? Baltimore Transit: All rights reserved.. Espaol: Gua de recursos COVID-19 en el sur de Chicago, The Geography of Fear: Policing a Segregated Chicago. Death of an Interurban The date is June 16, 1954. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4044 is on Western at the Douglas Park L on June 22, 1955. To date, we have received over 559,000 page views, for which we are very grateful. 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. 03. The ease of getting around that city is amazing. Edition illustrated 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. At one point, Chicago boasted the largest Irish population and the second-largest Polish population of any city in the world. Racially restrictive covenants were also common in the Chicago area, as in the rest of the country. 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. Chicago Hoods: West Side. 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. 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. St. Louis Public Service: Pullman post-war PCCs did not disappear in one fell swoop. This is one reason why the CTA began repainting these cars with a darker green around 1951-52. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), Passengers are getting off northbound CTA 7192 at Western and Van Buren on October 10, 1952. Altoona & Logan Valley/Johnstown Traction: While the Census doesnt follow traditional Chicago neighborhood boundaries, areas of Englewood, Park Manor and Woodlawn have poverty rates above 60 percent. A few years later, the CHA placed a light-skinned Black woman named Betty Howard in the previously all-white Trumbull Park Homes. 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. Total time: 61:31 Chicago South Side 1940s-1950s - Untitled During the 1940s & 50s During the 1940s and 50s, the South Side of Chicago, was the creatively teeming area called Bronzeville This was the home to poet Gwendolyn Brooks, playwright Richard Wright and dancer Katherine Dunham, and a lot more. Buses terminate at the nearby Howard L station. 2008- University of Michigan launch a study Moving Towards Opportunity. This bar is well-known by DePaul University students who frequent here on the weekends, and god knows also the weeknights. Burned in 1980s and in what was a real mindblower, the reporter on scene actually called it an old CTA facility. Your caption says this streetcar is on 77th St. No, it is on Vincennes Ave., in front of the 77th St. barn, heading north. In the Windy City, jazz started out in small local clubs on the South Side. 01. Recorded between 1955 and 1963 on the Skokie Valley Route and Mundelein branch. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4389 is southbound on Western near Leland Avenue, having just passed under the Ravenswood L (todays Brown Line), where a train of wooden cars are in the station. The South Side experienced a population shift during the move to suburbs following World War II. The YMCA Hotel, seen in the background, opened in 1916 and closed in 1979. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4008 is on Western at 65th on October 2, 1955. (David Sadowski Photo). From the Original Master Tapes Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. 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. 4:19 Interurbans #83 and #80, October 1954 1957: Civil Rights Act of 1957 is responsible for enforcing the civil rights laws passed. 4:46 Loco #400, August 17, 1955 08. (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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. By 1960 there were 32,371 Puerto Rican residents in Chicago, a number that more than doubled within a decade. the streetcar tracks turning between Halsted and 63rd. There were 300 Pullmans in all. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7193 has three followers at Western and 69th on October 13, 1953. Thank you. 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 601 at Halsted, Grand, and Milwaukee on May 17, 1954. The developments were primarily clustered into six groups in addition to scattered sites with low-rise buildings and row houses. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4060 is southbound on Western at 66th on October 9, 1955. $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. 1960. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA PCCs 4103 and 4076 pass each other while crossing the Chicago River on Madison Street. The streetcar in the photo is headed northbound, with the Rock Island Main Line to its right and Vincennes Ave to its left. While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. Black communities bore the brunt of the closings of fifty-plus Chicago Public Schools that were shuttered during former Mayor Rahm Emanuels administration. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4050 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. And this photo is at 69th and Western, showing a northbound Western car turning east on 69th to head to the 77th St. barn. With all the different types of people Chicago attracted at this time, the entertainment industry became a powerful force to be reckoned with. Look at this classic car in Rockford back in 1956. 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. (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. This move included the expansion of popular music styles, bringing jazz to Chicago and the rest of the country. Extending trolly lines is much easier and economical than L tracks. 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!). One of my enduring childhood memories, growing up in the 1970s and 1980s on Chicago's South Side, was something I called the "boundary." From north to south, they were Hull House, the Stockyards, Blue Island, South Chicago, East Chicago, and as far as Gary, Indiana. 5:17 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), CTA PCC 7057, a product of the St. Louis Car Company, is at Waveland and Halsted, the north end of Route 8. African Americans were also denied access to white areas by means less violent, but no less destructive. Notice The Robert Taylor Homes, located between 39th and 54th streets, had more than half of those apartments. 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. There are 223,867 residents in South Side Chicago, with a median age of 36. Re: pic508, car 4008 on Wabash Avenue. Technology advances enter the classroom and Chicago schools now have projectors, microscopes and early computer kits. (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. Known as Bronzeville, the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. Total time: 74:02 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7239 is on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4408 on Western at 66th on July 16, 1951. 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It was converted to apartments in 1985. Also, its wonderful to see all the old advertising signs on the street cars and the buildings. 8:40 Queens Plaza station, December 31, 1954 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. 80 years since subway construction started (December 17, 1938) All Rights Reserved. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 6154 is southbound at Halsted and Congress on October 5, 1953. 04. (Wien-Criss Archive), An unidentified CTA red car is on Halsted at 63rd Street on September 16, 1953. These 10 Photos of Illinois In The 1950s Are Mesmerizing Let's take a look back at some of the golden years of Illinois. So, where is the Shameless house located? Many thousands gathered to celebrate the starting of work on the subway. Building Chicagos subways was national news and a matter of considerable civic pridemaking it a Second City no more! ?etc Despite the simplicity of Chicagos famous grid system, designed for flat land and seemingly equitable on a map, residents of Chicago have never been equally dispersed or had the same freedom of movement and belonging. The light green paint originally used on these cars faded badly and was hard to match. 1. Median income and employment plummeted, and L ridership fell. 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. 18. It should be taught in school. 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. After that, the streetcars had to use the 77th and Vincennes barn. In 1950, 5% of the Chicago area Jews lived in suburbs. Recent publications have variously mentioned that either 107th St. or 109th st. was the south end of the Halsted lines private right-of-way segment in this area. 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. Along with hundreds, or perhaps even a few thousand other onlookers, I watched as 30 ft flames gutted the building that July evening. More than 1,000. 3:32 Box motor #5, May 24, 1953 A cropped version of this photo ran in one of our earlier posts, but this was scanned from the original negative. 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. 17:25 (Car 187, Brighton Car House, December 13, 1951 regular service abandoned April 29, 1951) In 1991 the Chicago White Sox began to play in a new Comiskey Park across the street from the old stadium. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7208 is on Western near 34th on September 3, 1950. In the twenty years from 1890 to 1910, Chicago's African-American population increased . Chapter Titles: Maps of Chicagos early ethnic composition show that immigrants and their descendants lived in clusters. I see no turning track from southbound Western to eastbound 69th. 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. 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