In this week's Vintage Tribune: The twists and turns of Englewood’s history have left the South Side neighborhood a checkerboard of rubble-filled blocks and streets lined with tidy homes.
The heart of the largest shopping district on Chicago's South Side, photographed looking north on Halsted Street from the 63rd Street elevated train platform, circa May 12, 1945.
The railroad acquired the homes of Payne and many of her neighbors through eminent domain. Generally, eminent domain is associated with the government’s power to take over property needed for projects in the public interest, such as a highway. Railroads were granted the right on the theory that they foster commerce that benefits all AmericansShe and her family fought for years, including by filing a counter lawsuit.
Children run in the street near the Englewood elevated train station and street car at 63rd and Halsted streets, circa 1920. But the landscape was changing. A well near what is now the intersection of 63rd and Halsted streets was a place to exchange gossip. Farmers sold produce there off their wagons. Stores followed,
Englewood’s boosters bragged that while a substantial police force was needed to keep the peace in the crowded Stockyards’ district, Englewood had only a few cops. They had little to do “other than to ornament the landscape and see the cows were not disturbed in their peaceful pastures,” an early resident recalled.[Don’t miss] While Norfolk Southern touts benefits expansion will bring to Englewood; residents and contractors reject railroad promisesThat didn’t last.
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