Chicago Neighborhoods 2015: Assets, Plans and Trends – A project of The Chicago Community Trust

WEST SIDE Housing and history set promise of revival for city’s ‘best side’

“The West Side is the Best Side,” say residents of this vast collection of neighborhoods, comparing their home to the South Side communities where African Americans have also lived for many years. The West Side, indeed, has just as storied a history, hosting one of the city’s first African-American communities back in the 1850s, along Lake and Kinzie Streets, and it remains an important and politically powerful part of Chicago and the region.

Source: Calculations by Institute for Today’s West Side is home to 229,000 Housing Studies at DePaul University using people in five distinct neighborhoods, 2010 Decennial Census. from East and West Garfield Park to North Lawndale, Austin, and Humboldt Park. The planning district is predominantly African American except for a few diverse enclaves in Austin and the Latino portions of Humboldt Park.

Well located along transit lines and railroads, the West Side was built up early in Chicago’s history, with developers erecting thousands of cottages, two-flats, and large apartment buildings to house workers from nearby factories and downtown businesses. Massive job centers, including metal fabricators, candy companies, appliance makers, and the 10,000-job Sears Roebuck complex, provided paychecks for generations of families, who in turn supported busy shopping districts on Madison Street, Chicago Avenue, North Avenue, Roosevelt Road, and Ogden Avenue. The West Side was never a rich community – though it had pockets of larger, fancier homes – but it was a solid, working-class area, four miles deep and four wide, that was home after World War II to more than 400,000 Chicagoans.

Economic and racial change Those post-war years marked the beginning of a major shift on the West Side as industrial companies began moving to the suburbs or out of state, making low-skill employment less available. After decades of hard use, the housing stock was deteriorating, and larger units were cut into “kitchenettes” to provide additional low-cost housing. In the 1950s, construction of the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) cut a block-wide ditch across the West Side, displacing thousands and separating neighborhoods. Then, starting in the 1950s, the destructive pattern of white flight further transformed the neighborhoods.

The black West Side was created by a mass exodus of white WEST SIDE OVER TIME households, moving east to west, block by block, as real estate 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 brokers fanned the flames – “panic peddling” – so that departing Population 395,501 335,696 277,073 269,031 229,317 families would sell at a low price. As African-Americans moved in, paying inflated prices, the blocks became 100 percent black, Share of population in poverty 20.5% 31.7% 34.8% 31% 33.4% and the selling moved on. In the Jewish community of North Percent owner-occupied/renter occupied Lawndale in the 1950s, the African American population grew 35/65 32/68 35/65 37/63 34/66 from 13,000 to 113,000. East Garfield Park started turning in the Sources: Calculations by Institute for Housing Studies mid-1950s and was 98 percent African American by 1970. West at DePaul University using U.S. Census data from US2010 Project at Brown University. Garfield Park shifted from 84 percent white to 97 percent black in the 1970s. Austin and Humboldt Park changed last, the wave moving west and north despite vigorous efforts by community groups and churches to create stable, mixed neighborhoods.

When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 5, 1968, two years after King lived briefly in North Lawndale to protest housing discrimination, the West Side reacted with riots and fires, destroying much of the 16th Street retail strip where King had lived and many buildings on Roosevelt Road and Madison Street. The emptiness and poverty of today’s West Side is often attributed to the

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 2 riots, but that is a half truth. The thousands of vacant lots resulted from decades of disinvestment before and after 1968. Changes in the job market and weak schools kept earning power low, which hurt local shopping districts. And as wealthier residents moved out, the share of population living in poverty grew to 33 percent, making the West Side among the poorest districts in Chicago.

Building new communities Some of the West Side’s current assets predate the racial turnover, in particular the thousands of historic structures that remain valuable today. But many were developed as the incoming African- American residents created wholly new communities from scratch. Block clubs were formed, churches established, family and geographic roots tapped to establish new networks. Larger community organizations and leaders emerged, including Nancy Jefferson and the Midwest Community Council, Belle Whaley of Operation Brotherhood in North Lawndale, Gale Cincotta and the Organization for a Better Austin, Jacqueline Reed of the Westside Health Authority, and José López of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.

It was on the West Side that some of Chicago’s earliest and strongest nonprofit development corporations were formed: Bethel New Life, Inc., which used church-based organizing and sweat equity to rebuild parts of West Garfield Park and the St. Anne’s hospital complex in North Austin; Lawndale Christian Development Corp., which set up shop across from the church on Ogden Avenue and rebuilt hundreds of units of housing; and People’s Redevelopment and Investment Effort (PRIDE) in Austin, which bought and rehabbed corner apartment buildings to stabilize fragile blocks. Mt. Sinai Hospital pioneered the concept of a committed, community-based health services provider, and numerous social service and employment-related agencies served and continue to serve local residents.

On today’s West Side, there are many areas of strength and potential:  Historic structures – The West Side is rich with distinctive architecture and building styles. North Lawndale has stately greystone two-flats, East Garfield has brick cottages with arched entryways, and classic bungalows stretch across parts of Humboldt Park and Austin. Stunning structures include the mosaic-bedecked Laramie Bank building at Chicago and Laramie, the

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 3 Pioneer Bank building at North Avenue and Pulaski Road, the Guyon Hotel and Midwest Athletic Club in West Garfield Park, and various massive synagogue buildings in North Lawndale, including the landmark Anshe Sholom on Independence Boulevard.  Parks – Three of Chicago’s flagship parks – Douglas, Garfield, and Humboldt – provide recreational and natural opportunities and are connected by the city’s boulevard system. Columbus Park and its golf course are in South Austin. The Garfield Park Conservatory is just completing a three-year, $15 million renovation to repair roofs damaged in a 2011 hailstorm.

 Transportation – The West Side is linked to EMPLOYMENT – WEST SIDE downtown and suburban job centers by the Top six employment sectors (# jobs) 2005 2011 CTA’s Green, Blue, and Pink Lines, as well Health Care and Social Assistance 8,264 8,212 as bus routes, Metra lines, and the Manufacturing 10,090 6,401 Eisenhower Expressway (I-290). CTA Retail Trade 3,724 4,528 Admin, Support, Waste Mgmt, Remediation 7,550 2,563 ridership has grown at most West Side Wholesale Trade 3,765 2,512 stations. Construction 2,943 2,162 Total # private-sector jobs in district 51,662 37,254  Employment – The West Side supports 37,000 local jobs, including 8,200 in health District Citywide care and social assistance and 6,400 in Unemployment rate 2012 21.1% 12.9% Sources: Calculations by Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University manufacturing. More than 5,000 of these using Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data (top sectors) and 2012 Five-Year American Community Survey (unemployment). jobs are held by district residents.

CTA Green, Pink, and Blue Line Ridership (weekday boardings, year-end averages, 2009 and 2013) Green Line Lake Street California Kedzie Conservatory Pulaski Cicero Laramie Central Austin 2009 1,069 1,330 846 1,811 1,450 1,343 2,421 2,090 2013 1,094 1,600 901 1,916 1,413 1,410 2,304 1,989

Pink Line Blue Line Forest Park Branch Central Kedzie- California Kedzie Pulaski Kostner Cicero Pulaski Cicero Austin Park Homan 2009 1,182 860 1,039 1,041 416 1,127 1,734 1,478 1,176 1,859 2013 1,459 1,088 1,303 1,221 497 1,321 2,250 1,874 1,397 2,103

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 4 Source: Chicago Transit Authority Annual Ridership Reports. These core assets have supported new investments such as George Westinghouse College Prep, a $69 million selective enrollment high school on Franklin Boulevard; Breakthrough Urban Ministries’ new $20 million Multiplex, at 3211 W. Carroll, which includes a preschool, gymnasium, health clinic, and café; Lawndale Christian Health Center’s new Health and Fitness Center on Ogden Avenue, which includes medical facilities, a conference center, and restaurant; and the Galewood Yards conversion of former rail land to a 14-screen AMC Showplace theater complex.

The neighborhoods Each neighborhood has its own history and characteristics, so they are described separately here, followed by discussion of shared challenges and opportunities.

Austin remains the strongest of the West Side neighborhoods with hundreds of blocks of intact, well-maintained housing. Brick bungalows, two-flats, and large apartment buildings make Austin a desirable place to live for both owners and renters; the community’s 34 percent homeownership rate is the highest in the district. Unique areas include the far-west section called Galewood, which has strong housing values alongside suburban Oak Park; Austin Village around West Midway Park, where mansions and Victorian houses have attracted a diverse community; and The Island on the far southwest corner, isolated by Columbus Park and industrial properties. The landmark 1870 Austin Town Hall buildings, 5610 W. Lake Street, now house park district dance and music programs and a branch library.

Austin is Chicago’s most populous community area with 88,514 residents and a strong commercial area along Madison Street near Austin Boulevard. Its three main industrial corridors have evolved into mixed industrial-commercial centers. Roosevelt Road has larger buildings that have been repurposed as multi-tenant facilities; the Cicero Avenue corridor includes manufacturing and distribution facilities plus the former Brach Candy factory, which was demolished in 2014 for redevelopment by owners ML Realty; and the Armitage Industrial Corridor includes the M&M Mars candy factory at Oak Park Avenue and smaller factories to the east. A big-box shopping

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 5 center at North and Cicero is anchored by Planet Fitness and Food 4 Less.

North Lawndale was densely built to house workers at huge factories including the McCormick Reaper plant; Western Electric telephone plant in Cicero, which employed 45,000; and the Sears headquarters and catalog fulfillment center at Homan and Arthington. Several times North Lawndale became severely overcrowded, peaking at 125,000 residents in 1960, but today after sustained housing loss, it is home to 36,912 people. Redevelopment efforts, including those of Lawndale Christian Development Corporation and the 23-company Lawndale Restoration project, have improved thousands of units, while private owners have maintained solid blocks of greystones, bungalows, and other housing styles on side streets and in the so-called K-Town area. North Lawndale was the initial focus of the Chicago Historic Greystone Initiative, a now-citywide effort by Neighborhood Housing Services.

On 16th Street at Hamlin, where Martin Luther King, Jr. lived, Lawndale Christian Development Corporation developed the $18 million, 45-unit Dr. King Legacy Apartments and the MLK Fair Housing Exhibit Center. Private and public efforts have transformed the once-vacant Sears complex into a residential community that now includes 350 units of mixed-income rental and ownership housing. The area includes the Homan Square community center and Henry Ford Academy Charter School; in 2015, Mercy Housing Lakefront plans redevelopment of the vacant printing and product-testing building into 161 units of affordable housing. Phase VI of the Homan Square housing development will add 52 additional units in 2015, and the original Sears Tower is being rehabbed for nonprofit and training uses. Nearby at Fillmore and Independence, UCAN is building a $34 million campus to provide programming for at-risk youth.

West Garfield Park is the smallest of the West Side community areas with just 18,000 residents. The Madison and Pulaski area was once the West Side’s commercial center and continues to be a major retail node. The community has the West Side’s largest skyscrapers, the 14-story Midwest Athletic Center at 6 N. Hamlin, whose 276 units were rehabilitated by Holsten Development, and the 10-story, Guyon Hotel at 4000 W. Washington Boulevard, now vacant. Both are on the National Register of Historic Places. The rest of the neighborhood is residential except for the industrial

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 6 corridor along Lake Street and Kinzie Avenue, which includes metal fabricators and a CTA rail maintenance facility.

East Garfield Park is separated from its western neighbor by the Garfield Park Conservatory and adjoining Garfield Park, both of which are regional attractions. Home to 20,567 residents, East Garfield has attracted reinvestment in both housing and commercial corridors, driven in part by its proximity to the Near West Side and downtown. Lake Street and the eastern ends of Fulton, Carroll, and Kinzie have active industrial and commercial businesses including specialized manufacturers, recycling companies, and landscape-supply businesses. The Garfield Park Community Council has targeted Kedzie Avenue with greening improvements, business development, and public events including a farmers’ market. About 75 artists work out of the West Carroll Art Studios, 3200 W. Carroll, and the Switching Station Artists Lofts at 15 S. Homan house 24 work-live spaces.

Humboldt Park is a larger neighborhood with 56,323 residents on and around the east-west corridors of Chicago Avenue, Division Street, and North Avenue. Large newer developments include the Menard’s and Walmart stores on North Avenue east of Cicero; a $24 million, 80-unit senior building at North and Pulaski, built in 2014 by Hispanic Housing Development Corporation; and the West Chicago Avenue Rebuild Initiative, led by the Chicago Community Loan Fund and West Humboldt Park Development Council. That effort has brought the Turkey Chop restaurant to 3506 W. Chicago Avenue and created a new Special Service Area taxing district to advance further improvements, including a marketing campaign.

Humboldt Park’s housing was hit hard by the foreclosure crisis but has seen renewed investment in recent years. The City of Chicago Micro Market Recovery Program has reoccupied 154 units in a target area centered around Homan Avenue, and the nonprofit Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation continues to build and manage affordable housing in the area. Latin United Community Housing Association is advancing the 42-unit Tierra Linda development on 10 scattered sites near the western end of the Bloomingdale Trail, which will open in 2015 and has already attracted private-sector housing and retail development to the east. The eastern part of the

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 7 neighborhood is seeing housing price increases as buyers move west from Wicker Park and Bucktown.

Despite relatively low incomes – about 40 percent of all households earn less than $28,000 per year – the West Side’s population density supports substantial retail districts that include more than 1,500 small businesses. All of the major corridors show some areas of strength and recent reinvestment, but all also struggle with vacancies; some blocks, even along major arteries like Madison Street, have few or no businesses.

Challenges and opportunities The West Side’s primary challenge in coming decades is to rebuild its residential and economic base, which in turn will support stabilization and growth along the retail corridors. Having lost more than 204,000 residents since its peak in 1960, there is plenty of room for growth.

Source: Easy Analytic Software, Inc., updated January 2014, as displayed on Woodstock Institute Data Portal.

But with the population still falling across most areas of the West Side, there is little short-term likelihood for substantial new housing development. Three quality-of-life plans created in 2005 as part of LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program all emphasized the need to cluster new development around strong nodes of existing activity, and to help residents improve education and employment skills. The plans for East Garfield Park, North Lawndale, and Humboldt Park recommended interim

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 8 use of vacant land for community gardens, side yards, and recreation space, along with improvements at major intersections on the retail corridors.

Some of these goals have been accomplished. Community gardens and urban farms have expanded across the West Side, with strong networks of gardeners in East and West Garfield Park, a new production garden at 16th and Ridgeway in North Lawndale, and a 2.6-acre farm at 407 N. Kedzie operated by Heartland Human Care Services. The city’s Large Lots program attracted more than 280 applications from neighbors interested in buying vacant city-owned parcels in East Garfield Park, and residents of Austin became eligible to apply starting December 1, 2014.

Commercial space has also seen demand for agriculture uses. Metropolitan Farms has erected three greenhouses for hydroponic farming on formerly vacant land at 4250 W. Chicago Avenue, and Urban Till employs 25 people growing hydroponic herbs and greens for restaurants in a 30,000-square-foot space in the former Sunbeam factory, 5420 W. Roosevelt Road.

Further industrial development shows promise as prices and demand have risen in the Kinzie and Pilsen corridors closer to the Loop. Metal fabricators, a cabinet maker, window factories, set designers, and granite supply houses are among those investing in West Side facilities. Freedman Seating in West Humboldt Park recently expanded into two adjacent buildings, employing more than 500 to make seats for transit vehicles including CTA buses. Freedman and dozens of other manufacturers work with Austin Polytech high school to prepare students for careers in modern factories. Several nonprofits also help residents gain job skills, including North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN), which serves the formerly incarcerated and other hard-to-employ populations. NLEN trainees raise bees in North Lawndale and sell the resulting honey and beauty products under the beeloveTM brand.

A challenge shared by all West Side neighborhoods is a shortage of high-quality local schools. There are some top-rated public schools and a few options for selective-enrollment or private schools, including Providence St. Mel’s, but the vast majority of local schools are Level 2 or Level 3, and quality high school options are limited. Because of sustained population decline, Chicago Public Schools closed

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 9 13 West Side schools in 2013, creating empty buildings and sidewalks as students shifted to other schools.

Creating a stable, high-performance educational system on the West Side, and improving safety and perceptions about the neighborhoods, will be major long-term challenges as the district rebuilds around its areas of strength.

Examples of development opportunities Place Location Status Notes Industrial corridors Numerous areas have Existing buildings range from Demand for industrial and distribution space has been growing; there is market available space and open modern to obsolete. activity in most West Side industrial areas. land. Vacant land on Numerous locations on Mixed-use buildings with housing retail corridors most major arteries. above retail could help increase population, demand for retail. Vacant residential Numerous locations. Uses other than housing may be City’s Large Lots program is likely to convey hundreds of lots to neighbors in East lots and properties most appropriate except in Garfield Park and Austin. strongest market areas. Lake Street corridor Under CTA Green Line Many vacant lots and Inspiration Café runs restaurant and training facility at 3504 W. Lake Street; Illinois from California to underutilized buildings, but also State University Teacher Education Pipeline has offices at 2934 W. Lake. Industrial Laramie. substantial recent investments. and landscaping supply firms continue to invest in the corridor. Kedzie at CTA Green Kedzie Avenue and Lake The southeast and southwest A conceptual plans was developed as part of the 2014 Kedzie Corridor Preliminary Line station Street corners include about 10 acres of Study. vacant land. Armstrong School 5345 W. Congress Pkwy. 1.34-acre site; no major repair Post-WWII building in South Austin is not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) needs. Calhoun School 2833 W. Adams St. 3.62-acre site; mechanical repairs East Garfield Park building is not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) needed. Dodge School 2651 W. Washington Blvd. 2.85-acre site; needs no major Three-story building in East Garfield Park is not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) repairs. Emmet School 5500 W. Madison St. 3.58-acre site; building-envelope Decorative brick building may be eligible for National Register of Historic Places; (closed 2013) repairs needed. redevelopment could have a positive impact on nearby South Austin area. Goldblatt School 4257 W. Adams St. 2.07-acre site; building needs West Garfield Park building is not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) mechanical and envelope repairs. Hensen School 1326 S. Avers Ave. 2.44-acre site; building envelope Building is not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) repairs needed.

Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 Summary of Assets – West Side – February 2015 – Page 10 Key School (closed 517 N. Parkside Ave. 2.13-acre site; building needs Dwight Perkins-designed structure, built in 1907, is adjacent to Austin Town Hall 2013) envelope repairs. and may be eligible for National Register; rehabilitation could contribute to local area. Building identified by Preservation Chicago as one of seven most threatened in 2014. Leland School 5221 W. Congress Pkwy. .95-acre site; no major repairs One-story South Austin building not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) needed. Marconi School 230 N. Kolmar Ave. 2.46-acre site; no major repairs Three-story structure in West Garfield Park is not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) needed. Melody School 412 S. Keeler Ave. 1.92-acre site; building needs West Garfield Park school is not a priority for historic preservation. (closed 2013) mechanical and envelope repairs. Paderewski School 2221 S. Lawndale Ave. 1.67-acre site; needs mechanical School served populations from both North Lawndale and adjacent South Lawndale (closed 2013) repair. (Little Village); was one of few bridges between neighborhoods. Includes recent Knowledge Is Power mural on exterior. Not a priority for historic preservation. Pope School (closed 1852 S. Albany Ave. 1.67-acre site; no major repairs Next to Douglas Park in North Lawndale, building has been proposed to National 2013) needed. Register of Historic Places as part of Boulevards submission. Ward School (closed 410 N. Monticello Ave. 1.58-acre site; needs mechanical East Garfield Park building is not a priority for historic preservation. 2013) and envelope repairs.

Data note: Demographic and other data is compiled by Chicago Community Area, which may differ slightly from the boundaries of the CN2015 Planning Districts. Community Areas included in this profile are Austin, East Garfield Park, West Garfield Park, Humboldt Park, and North Lawndale.

Research support for Chicago Neighborhoods 2015: Assets, Plans and Trends was provided by a team convened by The Chicago Community Trust. The summary of assets for this planning district was created by LISC Chicago and Teska Associates with materials from Metropolitan Planning Council, Place Consulting, Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University, and many other sources. Author: Patrick Barry.

Learn more about the West Side and Chicago Neighborhoods 2015 at cct.org/CN2015/WestSide. Learn more about data and sources at cct.org/CN2015/DataSources.

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