Opened its doors at 29th Street and Cottage Grove. In 1889 the Christian Brothers established De La Salle Institute at 35th Street and Wabash Avenue in the Douglas Community Area. They were soon joined by other groups, especially middle-class Hyde Park was especially transformed by the Columbian Exposition and by the opening in 1892 of theĪlong the Midway Plaisance just west of Frederick Law Olmsted's Jackson Park.Īmerican-born, white, middle-class families also pushed south along the boulevards, populating large sections of the Other prosperous residential districts developed farther south in Originally lived in the southeast quadrant of the Loop, but moved south along the lakefront, leaving behind an area increasingly devoted to industry,īy the 1870s and 1880s, elegant houses lined Prairie Avenue from 16th Street to 22nd Street (Cermak Road). The pattern of affluent residents moving outward from the central city was set early in Chicago's history. From 1890 to 1892, the South Side “Alley L” began to make its way south from the Loop to The expansion of horse-drawn streetcars and later cable cars (1880s) and electric trolleys (1890s) proved to be a boon to developers. Opened its first Hyde Park station at 51st and Lake Park Avenue in 1856. One year later Illinois Steel began operations at its massive South Works inīoth of these townships to the city in 1889, creating much of the South Side in the process. Palace Car Company brought its plant and model city to The late 1860s and 1870s also saw the movement of industry away from the Loop. The South Side expanded quickly as both the rich and the poor left the city's center. Neighborhoods developed south of the Loop as early as the 1850s. Of Gwendolyn Brooks, the paintings of Archibald Motley, Jr., the sculpture of Lorado Taft and Henry Moore, the The South Side has also provided a fertile site for creative energy, from the fiction of Upton Sinclair, James T. It long has served as the location for much of the city's convention business, first with the Chicago Coliseum and theĪnd later with the massive McCormick Place exhibition complex. The South Side boasts its own major league Population, it has actually accommodated remarkable diversity. Often identified in the second half of the twentieth century with the city's A contemporary perspective informed by historical circumstances points to the railroad tracks just east of Western Avenue, a marker that would have to be bent to accommodate a few blocks of westward drift to take in theĬhicago South Side has long had a distinct identity. The greatest uncertainty lies along the western edge, in part because neither a natural nor even an artificial dividing line provides a meaningful marker.
Chicago's expanding city limits have provided a dynamic, but readily identifiable southern boundary. Roosevelt Road (12th Street) provides a stable northern border. To the east,Īnd the Indiana state line have provided enduring points of demarcation. To a considerable extent the section is a state of mind: the South Side is that part of the city that houses people who consider themselves South Siders. The boundaries of Chicago's South Side have shifted over time and varied according to the diverse spatial and cultural perspectives that influence how Chicagoans label sections of the city.
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