Skilled workers and factory workers lost their jobs during the crisis. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7213, the last streetcar to operate in Chicago, is on Western at 21st on July 16, 1951. Many immigrants were fleeing poverty and war, with many others coming to Chicago in pursuit of economic prosperity. Visit the website (wttw.com/firsthand) to explore the elements of the project. Between 1925 and 1950, Chicago's black literary output rivaled the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. 29:34 (Johnstown Traction recordings were made August 9, 1953) 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. (312 . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4060 is on Western at the Logan Square L on June 8, 1956. The YMCA Hotel was on the west side of the street; the car is northbound, as evidenced by the Downtown head sign. The original objective was to treat basic illness and to train nurses and interns. 5 . 1950s The Neighbourhood Siding Universe T Tom Dudones My Chicago - I grew up on the South Side in the 1950s & sixties. Edition illustrated 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!). 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. Altoona & Logan Valley/Johnstown Traction: 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4375 is at 69th and Hamilton on November 5, 1954. The rest of Madison was bussed. 04. chicago Go To Homepage Before You Go On the one hand, the South Side of Chicago was the "capital of black America." It was home to the nation's most powerful black politician, Democratic congressman William L. Dawson; the most prominent black man in America . 0:56 PCC car 1557, Route 20 Cabin John line, July 19, 1953 It appears that the street has already been made a one-way, which did not happen until November 16, 1953. Your caption says this streetcar is on 77th St. No, it is on Vincennes Ave., in front of the 77th St. barn, heading north. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. https://chicagology.com/wp-content/themes/revolution-20/century/194063rdhalsted.jpg. 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. Looks like between 1950 & 55 Burke Desoto/Plymouth became Burke Ford. Are We All Losing It? (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7044 is on Western at Leland on June 10, 1956. Dr. Martin Luther Kings visit to Chicago during the Freedom Movement campaign for fair housing made headlines in 1966. 05. Between 1950 and 1960, most white residents in Chicago's south side Woodlawn neighborhood fled as poor blacks moved in. (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. 1454 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605. Along with hundreds, or perhaps even a few thousand other onlookers, I watched as 30 ft flames gutted the building that July evening. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7227 is on Western at Bross on October 15, 1954. Chris Goes of Goes Lithography Co. had a plant at 61st Street beside the Dan Ryan. Yusay beer stands out on a lot of the photos. 06. 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 South Side is the area of Chicago lying south of the citys large Downtown area. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7157 is northbound on Western at 67th on June 15, 1955. Toledo & Eastern: 4:56 Car 5706, January 16, 1954 Halsted cars ended their runs at 63rd. 4. This northeast corner was originally occupied by the long defunct Becker-Ryan Dept. Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. 1:43 2008- University of Michigan launch a study Moving Towards Opportunity. The South Side's 87th Street, for instance, was a stronghold of Black businesses, particularly during the 1980s. Google view shows the approximate location from which #536 was taken. Keep up the excellent effort. (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. He would later say, I have been in the Civil Rights Movement for many years all through the South, but I have never seen not even in Alabama or Louisianamobs as hostile and hateful as this crowd. The Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968. From the Original Master Tapes (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. Tom. In 1950, 5% of the Chicago area Jews lived in suburbs. During the 1940s Mercury Records was founded from a Chicago base and emerged as a viable rival to the established major companies. You can see the shadow of the now-gone Ogden Avenue viaduct at the bottom of the photo. 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 Properties covered include: (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4050 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on November 11, 1955. African Americans were also denied access to white areas by means less violent, but no less destructive. I always knew about racism growing up in the 70s, recall seeing the hippies in Old town. Total time: 61:31 All rights reserved.. Espaol: Gua de recursos COVID-19 en el sur de Chicago, The Geography of Fear: Policing a Segregated Chicago. The introduction to Polk's Chicago Directory 1923 provides a brief history of Chicago directories and a list of published volumes. 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. Chicago Photos . The first waves of Black migrants fleeing the Jim Crow South were relegated to a vertical strip of land near Lake Michigan. The PCC is going to go northbound on Route 22 Clark-Wentworth. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 601 at Halsted, Grand, and Milwaukee on May 17, 1954. It should be taught in school. I trust that the Trolley Dodger blog will continue as it is regardless of the future of ChicagoTransit. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4373 is on Western near the Douglas Park L on October 5, 1953. and along with a sign alerting northbound motorists to stay left of the open running tracks. 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. And we thank you for sharing this helpful bit of history! (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4227 is on the turnback loop at Clark and Howard, the north end of Route 22. Check out these old photos of Illinois from the 1940s. Then, Douglas Park L trains used these tracks from 1954-58. 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. The ease of getting around that city is amazing. Sixty-three percent of the time, Black testers posing as potential renters holding CHA Housing Choice Vouchers experienced some form of discrimination. Beneath this L platform, along 63rd Place, were streetcar tracks for Halsted cars that ended at 63rd St., as well as curb space for the two suburban bus companies, South Suburban Safeway Lines and Suburban Transit System. 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. 3. 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. In the 1950s, the Chicago Transit Authority sought to . 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. We thank him for his generosity. The Southeast Side is a description that the city itself continues to resist, including this neighborhood with all of Chicago's South Side communities. Effectively acting as sundown towns, suburbs such as Cicero utilized police and mob violence to draw a line in the concrete. The tracks going to the right were for the 67th/69th/71st line, which used Western to travel between 69th and 71st. PCCs were taken off Madison on December 13, 1953. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7123 at Western and 69th on January 28, 1954. Our resident South side history expert M. E. writes: I have a lot of comments about your latest post #241. One day I got off at Damen and walked under the tracks to see where they went. I have produced some comments about your most recent photo group (Chicago in the 1950s). Nowadays, transit agencies have style manuals, used to maintain consistency, but such was not the case in the early 1950s. 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. 4 Board of Trustees/Directors minutes May 1952-Oct 1956 draft copy. Those canopies were short-lived after the end of streetcar service, as buses eventually ran into them. With all the different types of people Chicago attracted at this time, the entertainment industry became a powerful force to be reckoned with. Capital Transit: 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. 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. March 20, 2019. In the background, you can see the large Chicago Bridge and Iron Works, which fronted on the north side of 107th St. . (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7012 at Western and Congress, crossing over the new expressway, on June 11, 1956. If youre ever in the neighborhood, the TV house is located at 2119 South Homan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60623. Note the dark areas where some touch-up painting has been done on the PCC. The Near North Sides Cabrini-Green complex at one time had 3,606 apartments. (Wien-Criss Archive), An unidentified CTA red car is on Halsted at 63rd Street on September 16, 1953. 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. Notice the Yellow cabs waiting for L passengers. Railroad Record Club North Shore Line Rarities 1955-1963 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. Women approach a news stand in Chicago in 1940. It was converted to apartments in 1985. 1954 HOUSING SEGREGATION IN 1950S SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO (Setting: A Raisin in the Sun) 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. 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. The African-American population in Chicago now makes up 25 percent of the city, but racial segregation is high, and much of the South and West sides have become densely populated, marginalized, low-income areas. By 1960 there were 32,371 Puerto Rican residents in Chicago, a number that more than doubled within a decade. In the 1960s, the population of Chicago shrank dramatically. Notice CHICAGO If you think your neighborhood has changed since you first moved in, you should see what it looked like 60 years ago. The construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the 60s further othered the Street State corridor. 17. 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. Known as Bronzeville, the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. 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. Puerto Rican people are the second-largest Latinx group in Chicago. In its aftermath, white flight from Chicago accelerated. Another 537 were injured, more than half of whom were Black. 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). Your email address will not be published. https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic556.jpg 06. the streetcar tracks turning between Halsted and 63rd. South Side Chicago. Squad cars block entrance to a block on Chicago's South Side after disturbances during which 10,000 persons milled about the area. 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." Note that the platforms have been moved to the east and no longer extend over Halsted St. Through a century of discriminatory strategies from the City and the real estate industry, in addition to antiquated attitudes toward Black residents and people of color, Chicago continues to be a city of neighborhoodshighly segregated neighborhoods. Make No Little Plans (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4020 on Western at 73rd during track work on June 26, 1955. Cincinnati Street Railway: 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4060 is southbound on Western at 66th on October 9, 1955. Includes both Electroliners, standard cars, and locomotives. Although there are significant improvements we have made, there are still things that remain the same. There are pictures on my blog, and also in my book Chicagos Lost Ls. (Wien-Criss Archive), Passengers are getting off northbound CTA 7192 at Western and Van Buren on October 10, 1952. Coverage spans 1839-1928 but no directories are available for 1840-1842, 1918-1922, and 1924-1927. We look forward to hearing from you. With a location just south of the ever-expanding University of Chicago in Hyde Park, however . This is now the outdoor seating area for a restaurant. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4393 is on Western at 21st on July 6, 1950. 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. Chapter Titles: Railroad Record Club Traction Rarities 1951-58 I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s and '60sliterally across the street from U.S. Steel. 2. Chicago Youth Organize Townhall for Mayoral Candidates, Op-Ed: Chuy Garca Isnt Running as a Progressive This Mayoral Bid, Chicago Rapper 8MatikLogan Gives Himself A Second Chance, IRS Approves Federal Nonprofit Status for South Side Weekly NFP, Mayoral Debate was a Poor Night for Chicago, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4408 on Western at 66th on July 16, 1951. Seems to have been a good choice since the same building is still a Ford dealer today. Will Guy Fieri Cook The Bean Before It's Windexed? Pullman post-war PCCs did not disappear in one fell swoop. 09. Second, they were all shared with our readers by Jeffrey L. Wien of the Wien-Criss Archive. Chicagos first rapid transit subway opened in 1943 after decades of wrangling over routes, financing, and logistics. Chicago's historic South Side neighborhood is a largely residential community defined by its red brick houses and tree-shaded sidewalks. Shameless fans, you are welcome to come inside the gate and take pictures on the porch, a sign in front of the house reads. Your financial contributions help make this web site better, and are greatly appreciated. Visit the website (wttw.com/firsthand) to explore all of the elements of the project. The deadliest tornado hit on April 21, 1967, traveling through Oak Lawn and the South Side of Chicago, killing 33 and injuring 500. . In the Windy City, jazz started out in small local clubs on the South Side. Buses terminate at the nearby Howard L station. . We appeared on WGN radio in Chicago last November, discussing our book Building Chicagos Subways on the Dave Plier Show. (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. So, my best guess is this picture was taken during the summer of 1954. In the twenty years from 1890 to 1910, Chicago's African-American population increased . . 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 From north to south, they were Hull House, the Stockyards, Blue Island, South Chicago, East Chicago, and as far as Gary, Indiana. 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. Poor neighborhoods were razed and replaced. 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. Known as "Bronzeville," the neighborhood was surprisingly small, but at its peak more than 300,000 lived in the narrow, seven-mile strip. 07. John White/U.S. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7240 is at 69th and Morgan on October 25, 1954. 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. Dates: 1936-2004. After its peak in the 1950s, a variety of changes influenced the direction the Outfit took. 4:51 Price: $24.99 The lack of such a track indicates that any Western car ending its run and heading to the 77th and Vincennes barn had to start at the 79th and Western terminal, go north on Western, then turn east on 69th. Interesting to look at photos 591 & 565 which show the same area on Western. 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. Black communities protested, and the strife culminated in five days of violence that left thirty-eight deadtwenty-three Black and fifteen white Chicagoans. Housing discrimination is still a significant problem in Chicago. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7238 is southbound on Western at the Douglas Park L on April 22, 1955. There are miscellanous directories available for later yearsbusiness directories and . 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. Note the circa 1953 Cadillac at left. One comment, the photo of CTA 687 is at Division and Crosby, not Larrabee. 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. 09. The conductor then raises the trolley pole onto the parallel wire. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4373 and others at the Western and 79th loop on November 23, 1952. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4059 on Western at 28th on November 20, 1955. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA prewar PCC 4027 (at left) passes a postwar car on Western at 24th on June 7, 1956. First, a nit: I think this picture is at 107th rather than 105th. It's a glorious and sloppy mess, but one that represents home for many South Siders. 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. 02. 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. Author David Sadowski 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. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7788385,-87.6447587,3a,75y,3.14h,91.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYcGafc7OK9fQ0w712doa2A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192, 63rd and Halsted in 1939 when this Sears store was 6 years old. A wooden Garfield Park L train is nearby, on temporary trackage. 4:35 August 27, 1954 Total time 73:14 These segregated communities maintained a tense coexistence until 1919, when racist white hostility bubbled over. Look at this classic car in Rockford back in 1956. 4:00 Master Unit car #74, August 8, 1953 For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here. Not quite CSL sold it in 1920s, but amazingly close! Rockwell is 2600 West. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Chicago's South Side was the center for African-American culture and business. 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. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 5248 at Vincennes and 105th on November 27, 1949. Chicago, though arguably racially diverse overall, is considered by researchers to be the nation's most racially segregated city. 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. Amazing! 03. 12:40 Car #202 (ex-1202), between Springfield and Decatur, February 1955 Our friend Kenneth Gear recently acquired the original Railroad Record Club master tapes. # of Discs 1 (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 4238 is southbound on Wabash, crossing the Chicago River. (The Census Bureau didn't begin to identify "non-Hispanic whites" as a separate category until 1980, when that group accounted for . Images of America 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. 4:53 Engine whistle signals, loco #12, January 17, 1954 He is still stuck on the poverty line, working a food delivery job to support his girlfriend Tami and their son Freddie. 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. 5:09 Passenger interurban #9 In 1979 there were still 10,000 employees at the plant, which was a 50% reduction, but starting in 1980 thousands more were left unemployed. 01. Todays photos have two things in common. 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). (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. 1957: Civil Rights Act of 1957 is responsible for enforcing the civil rights laws passed. CTA PCC 4144 is southbound on Halsted. For Shipping to US Addresses: Order your copy today! 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 addition, the greater Chicagoland areawhich encompasses northeastern Illinois and extends into southeastern Wisconsin and northwestern Indianais the country's third largest metropolitan area and . PCC 7151 is a two-man car, and passengers are boarding at the rear. (Wien-Criss Archive), CTA 7253 is on Western at Leland (by the Ravenswood L, now the Brown Line) on June 10, 1956. But future waves of immigration in the mid-twentieth century and, later, in the 1980s and 90s bolstered their numbers in the city. Re: pic508, car 4008 on Wabash Avenue. (Wien-Criss Archive). https://thetrolleydodger.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pic568.jpg There are different types of segregation beyond the Black-white binary that normally, and rightfully, comes to mind. 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. 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. The materials include articles, correspondence, flyers, news clippings and reminisces. 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