high in Hyde Park or back to the future

Behind the liquor store, 5300 block of South Harper. 1-1-2005.

Smells like New Year's spirit…

taste of 26th Street

637 W. 26th Street, 12-24-2005.

taste of 95th Street

Fried Scallops & Fried Oysters at the south west end of 95th Street Bridge at the Calumet River, 1-2-2006.

http://lthforum.com
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/dining/27993,0,2195098.venue
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-308675.html

then there was one

Robert Taylor Homes, 4429 South Federal, 1-7-2006.
http://www.chicagosuntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cha07.html
"On Friday, laborer Mishael Crawford, 18, walked around collecting scrap metal from the brick pile. He works for the demolition company tearing down the building where his father used to live. 'I remember the fun parts,' he said. 'All of my family lived in these buildings. Now they're scattered.'"

The last remaining Robert Taylor Home @ 5135 S. Federal, 1-7-2006.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/138/chicago.html
"A year after she left Chicago's notorious Robert Taylor Homes public housing development, 30-year-old Lee-Lee Henderson said she was ready to return. 'I'd rather live in Robert Taylor,' she answered when asked whether she would prefer to live among private-market neighbors or public housing residents. A curious reply when one considers that popular and academic opinion has written off high-rise public housing as harmful for poor families. Yet this single mother of two, who has lived most of her life in public housing, says quite confidently that she prefers to inhabit the dark, distressed corridors of Robert Taylor. Sitting in the house that she moved into after leaving Robert Taylor, where rats are coming up through the vent from the basement, and where the landlord has repeatedly refused to make repairs, it is easy to understand why. Soon after stating her desire to return to Robert Taylor, Henderson says, 'It was not supposed to be this way. They told us they were tearing down the buildings 'cause we would have a better life. I'm still waiting.'

Overall, roughly 75 percent of all CHA families have expressed an interest in returning to their old neighborhood."

disco laundry

Get It Clean Laundromat, East 45th Street at Michigan Avenue in Bronzeville, 1-12-2006.

under the Skyway

9914 S. Avenue M, East Side (Community Area 52), 2-15-2006.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/406.html
"The East Side's geography, bordered by water on three sides and shielded by miles of mills, is perhaps symbolic of its voluntary social isolation."

"heg" as in "peg" followed by "wish" as in "dish"

Former bank// former tavern at NW corner of E. 134th and S. Brandon, in Hegewisch (Community Area 55), 2-20-2006.
http://hegewisch.net/primer.html
"A Diamond in the Rough. It has all the convenience that you would expect from a big city like Chicago, but all the charm of a small town."

Former Hegewisch Theatre at 13320 S. Baltimore, 2-20-2006.
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1990/ii901217.html
"Yes, welcome to Hegewisch, Chicago's most southeastern, most isolated and - as of February 14, 1990 - most endangered community. On that date, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announced his proposed site for a third major airport in Chicago, one that would displace part of the southeast side of the city - including all of Hegewisch. The present community of Hegewisch would be replaced by runway No. 2."

gatekeepers

Alley view of 9047 S. Mackinaw, in the Millgate neighborhood of South Chicago, 2-22-2006.
NE corner of Mackinaw at 91st Street, 2-21-2006.
http://www.mapquest.com

New City?

NE corner of South Ashland at 50th Street, in New City (Community Area 61), 2-25-2006.

SE corner of Ashland at 52nd Street, 2-25-2006.
5425 S. Ashland, 2-25-2006.
http://www.cagis.uic.edu/cgi-bin/camap_get

sky @ 4_25 pm

March 11, 2006.

Lesser Fuller

NW corner of 43rd Street at Wells, in Fuller Park (Community Area 37), 3-16-2006.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/490.html
"Fuller Park has always been home to the poor. In 1950, 24 percent of the community lacked indoor toilets."

For Sale by Owner, 253 W. 43rd Street, in Fuller Park, 3-16-2006.
"In the 1950s the community was overrun and split by the Dan Ryan Expressway, which displaced one-third of the population. The 1950s also saw the erosion of the local economy as trucking and interstate highways rendered the centralized Union Stock Yards unnecessary."

Fuller up

4234 S. Wentworth (west side of the Dan Ryan Expressway) in Fuller Park, 3-19-2006.


NE corner of LaSalle at Swann (east side of the Dan Ryan) in Fuller Park, 3-19-2006.
http://www.northwestern.edu
"1998 figures (for elevated blood lead levels) show a range of children affected, from zero in the O'Hare area to 46% in Fuller Park."

SE corner of LaSalle at Root Street, 3-19-2006.
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/980205/chas.shtml
"The overall death rate for African-American male Chicagoans is 51 percent higher than the death rate for African-American men nationwide. In one neighborhood, Fuller Park, the death rate for African-American men is 340 percent higher than the national average."

Curtis Locke