With an eastern boundary of South Avenue K, few Chicago neighborhoods boast a closer proximity to the Indiana border than Arizona, also known as The Avenues. The five-block-wide sliver of Hegewisch bounded by Avenues K and O, 130th and 136th streets, and Wolf Lake and the William W Powers Conservation Area, is just a half-mile from the state line as the crow flies.
Arizona’s location puts it well outside the CTA and Metra service areas, so residents who want to head into downtown will either need to find a park-and-ride option near the Red Line’s 95th Street station or the Metra Electric District line, or prepare for a 30-minute drive in using the Skyway or the Bishop Ford Freeway.
All nine homes listed for sale in Arizona are single-families built between 1908 and 1962. Two bedrooms with one or two baths and less than 1,000 square feet of living space currently run from $63,900 to the $130s. Four three-bedroom homes, all with one bath and 1,000 to 1,100 square feet, are priced from the $140s to $160s. A single five-bedroom / two-bath home with 1,092 square feet is selling for almost $270,000.
Arizona has its share of distressed and foreclosed properties as well. According to RealtyTrac, nine homes in the neighborhood are in pre-foreclosure, three are bank-owned, and one is going to auction.
See dozens of photos from Arizona and thousands of other photos of Chicago neighborhoods and suburban towns through the YoChicago Flickr photostream.
Wow, I never thought that YoChicago would go that far south in looking at city neighborhoods. It’s great coverage though but it’s unfortunate that this area is largely isolated. That needs to change.
Levois,
We go everywhere in Chicago – every corner. Everything in between.
I shot the above photo – and many others – during two days of walking around Hegewisch and its sub-neighborhoods: Arizona, Avalon Trails, Harbour Point Estates and Old Hegewisch. You can see some of the results in our Hegewisch album at Flickr.
“Arizona’s location puts it well outside the CTA and Metra service areas.”
That’s not quite true. There’s a CTA bus that goes through Hegewisch. Also, South Shore Line station at Hegewisch is closer than Metra Electric.
Thanks, George. I meant CTA’s rail service and should have said so.
Also, if you look at Metra’s map (which was what I went off of when putting the post together) you’ll see that they consider the South Shore Line as a spur of the Metra Electric District line. But you’re right — that’s a lot closer than the rails to the west.
Joe, do you mean the South Shore Line or the South Chicago Line, which is a true spur off the IC (Illinois Central, aka Metra Electric). Of course, the South Shore runs on the IC tracks from Kensington (115th Street) to Randolph Street.
South Chicago, not South Shore. It all gets confusing after a while.