Kick off South Triangle week at YoChicago with a little history lesson on the neighborhoods we’re looking at:
Chatham, which “has the distinction of being perhaps the only neighborhood in Chicago that developed from a European American middle-class community into one composed of middle-class African Americans.”
Avalon Park, known as “Pennytown” in the early 1900s.
Burnside (including West Chesterfield), Chicago’s smallest community area, bounded entirely by railroads.
Calumet Heights and Pill Hill, “said to be named for the large number of doctors from nearby South Chicago Hospital who own spacious homes perched upon the Stony Island ridge.”
Sections of the Park Manor and Grand Crossing neighborhoods of Greater Grand Crossing, where development began after an 1853 train accident that killed 18 people and injured 40.
For a photographic history, try tracking down Images of America: Chicago’s Southeast Side at the library or your favorite used books store.