Chicago's Old Southwest Side: THIS is the real Chicago
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Today were in Chicago. No, not Wrigleyville, or the beautiful Loop, or in the fancy brownstone districts of Lincoln Park or Bucktown. Were on the city’s gritty and salt of the earth old southwest side. One of the oldest and most authentic areas of the city. In this video tour we will be traveling to four neighborhoods on Chicago's authentic and culturally rich old southwest side. These include:
Chinatown
Bridgeport
Canaryville
Back of the Yards
McKinley Park
These lively and historic working class neighborhood give Chicago it's edge and are considered the most authentic neighborhoods in the city. They have a long standing tradition, are fiercely proud of their southside Chicago pride, and have the quintessential Chicago accent. This area, began as a home for newly arrived immigrants- and now serve as an interesting look into the past- and an even more hopeful outlook for the future. Join me on a journey as we explore the southwest side of Chicago.
Bridgeport is one of the city's best neighborhoods. I completely agree with you about the authenticity of the south side.
Not that many decades ago, Marquette Park, Bridgeport, and Canaryville were very racist areas. I think they are more diverse now.
@@cocoaorange1Very, I remember in the late 90s I stopped into a small diner off of Halsted in Bridgeport, like a Mom and Pop place just to get a breakfast sandwich. The cashier took my order, they prepared my sandwich but you could really tell by the stares I received from the patrons eating and from her that my business wasn't really appreciated 😔 the breakfast sandwich was really delicious 😋 but I never went back.
@@derricklangford4725 healthy food . Lithuanian restaurant
@@cocoaorange1 More diverse now and significantly more crime. Back when they were so called "racist", they were significantly safer where grandparents and women could walk around without fear of being assaulted. Children could go out and come home when it was time for dinner or when it got dark without issue. Now you have assaults and carjackings everywhere. The diversity has been preying on Chinatown in particular for several years now. It's a little wild how bad it has become. Without question it was a better place to live prior than it is today.
Starting in the 1950's blacks, whites and Latino's from various neighborhoods would march over to other neighborhoods in the dozens to hundreds. They would then beat each other up and go home. This went on until the late 60's to 70's until some neighborhoods were devastated by gang violence and others moved to the suburbs. This more or less continued for the next several decades but has basically died out by the early to mid 2000's. To be clear this wasn't a white problem. As I said, blacks and Latino's partook in the ethnic and racial tensions.
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! So was Hegewisch, East Side, South Chicago, and South Shore.
Are you a Northsider? I ask because a Southsider would know that those aren't southwest
Thank you representing my beautiful neighborhood stockyards aka boty and my Favorite neighborhood Bridgeport Southside ! Go Sox
My Polish Grandparents lived at 47th and Damen in Back of the Yards until they passed around 2000. I can absolutely confirm the area still had an odd smell still in the 1990s.
'The Jungle' is one great book and a must-read.
Gj man. Mckinley Park was my old hood.
FYI those neighborhoods are the southside not southwest side McKinley Park sw corner is the beginning or the southwest side,
Great video! I enjoyed it but none of these hoods are southwest side. They are south loop to south side. Southwest side is st Rita st Laurence de Lasalle . In the 60's and Pulaski maybe
Great story Joe. I was born in Canaryville & still have family there. And I never thought that was a meat smell. Thanks for the memories and I enjoyed it.
@@pc0p 39th and Wallace....Ewwwww.
Mine were on Laflin by 47th by the Goldblatts. My Mom grew up there.
I grew up in Garfield Ridge by Midway.. in thr late 80s 90s.. loved it there.
Love the pics and history of some of our great neighborhoods. Thank you Joe!
I lived Southwest in Mt. Greenwood/West Beverly.
@zeidenmedia I loved those areas and everyone was related to police officers and firemen
pretty interesting video. I will pass it on to old friends. I'm glad you got Won Kow in the Chinatown clip. I loved Chinatown and still use my Wok and cleaver that I bought there over 35 years ago. Connie's pizza used to be near China town but I think they are gone now. While I didn't live in the the other 'hoods ' you showed, I went through them enough and loved Ricobene's. The rest of my neighborhoods before moving North were Pilsen, Heart of Chicago, Little Village and Englewood. There was a time when we would warn tourists to keep their eyes open because some of these areas abutted some rough sections & if you got lost you were on your own. I am somewhat curious as to how you got all those pictures without the gang graffiti. Thanks for sharing a great video.
Many people have commented that these neighborhoods are no longer the southwest side. The title states they are the OLD southwest side. Yes, growing up there when the wind bles in, the smells and pollution were atrocious. Not surprised the smells are still there. Besides the stockyards there were tanneries and the infamous incinerator. High incidence of cancer and respiratory issues in people who grew up there during the time those were active. Bridgeport was Mayor Daleys neighborhood and one of the safest places to live in the city
You are so wrong about the coach houses. They were the first buildings on the lot. When the owner started making money they pickup those coach houses and moved them to the back of the lot and built a new home.
Considering the stock yards closed in the early 70's, that is messed up the smell of the meat is still in the air.
Why didn't you go to the Fuller Park neighborhood? They have houses from the 1850's? It is the smallest neighborhood. It is on the other side of Canaryville. Also, once you passed the stitch on the expressway, you could smell the scent of bread 🍞 baking. There were a lot of bakeries in this neighborhood. But u scared 😱, so never mind😅❤
I ordered a full slab of ribs from Ricobene's two days ago. Yummy! These are the best ribs I've ever tasted except for Lem's, on the south side and my own. Their breaded steak 'sammich' (sandwich) is good too but gimmie their ribs, fries, garlic bread, and coleslaw. Much love from Little Italy (Chicago).
Love this video, i grew up in Bridgeport, went to Healy School which was founded in 1885 (since torn down, was on 30th and Wallace), Went to Tilden Tech high school in Canaryville. I am passing this on to my kids who went to college in the London, UK and Krawkow Poland andmy youngest who graduated from UIC in once was the old italian neighborhood.
That's not the real south side. Those neighborhoods are just southwest of downtown. If you were going that route, why not include Bronzeville. You got Garfield Park, Englewood, Auburn-Gresham, Roseland. Hyde Park, etc. You went with areas that are not predominantly black populated.
Ah he’s about 6 blocks of white Sox park and your standing in front of 29 th Wells that Armour Square ! Hey ! Find out some history of that corner building! I’m interested in its history!
By the way thank you for your presentation! It was pretty great and updated.
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Great video!
Soooo are you going to go further south? Are you going to go over the bridge to the just as historic Bronzeville neighborhood. By the way, the southeast side also has the bridge edge sidewalks. The neighborhood is called South Chicago. That's where most of the Chicago shots from the BLUES BROTHERS movie was filmed.
Technically, this nice gentleman is right in presenting the “southwest side” because anything west of State Street is technically west in numbering the grid as opposed to east on the other side. But, these neighborhoods are recognized as “south-side”, not southeast.
White Sox fans are NOT "fair weather fans". Sox fans are always loyal. You're thinking of the fickle Cubs fans. Ask any Southsider.
You mean how the White Sox post such stellar attendance numbers?
Hahahahahhahahhahahahahahhahaha. Okay. Y’all dont show up unless you’re good.
That's not the southwest side my dude. Learn your directions and next time head towards midway. I'll give you a hint of where it's at, start from downtown and head Southwest until you hit an airport in the middle of a neighborhood
Great video. I live in McKinley Park and utilize the park itself a lot. It’s a good place to raise a family wirh CTA access, and a very short commute to Sox Park.
Hit Bronzeville,
Brighton Park Englewood and Hyde Park next
Thanks for all the history and information. I thought the whole south side was a bad area, so thank you for breaking that stereotype. I was in Chicago a couple of times, but didn't get down here- but thanks to your video I will next time because it looks like a great collection of neighborhoods.
Bridgeport is an "Evil step-child?" Hardly.
SouthSide or no side... born & raised. We're on the 5th ans 6th Bridgeport generations, in an 1872 workman's cottage for the last 3 or 4
You are on south side and begin your video in ARMOUR SQUARE of which Chinatown is a part of. It isn't Bridgeport. Chinatown used to be an Italian neighborhood when the Chinese business was forced out of downtown area around Clark Street. Our neighborhood along with Bridgeport, Canaryville & Back-of-the Yards are a melting pot of various nationalities Irish, Croatian, Italian, Chinese, Lithuania, Polish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Black, Germans & Swedish. All working immigrants. Bringing families from the "old lands" to live with them. I laughed at your comment of servants living in coach house. Armour Square used to have a small steel work in it that my grandfather worked at. A lot of manufacturing. Mostly poorly paid people, but who took care of their buildings with pride.
I remember Riccobene's as a tiny "stand" no tables, just a kitchen of cooking & a counter to order from.
The southwest side, and I’m 68, and NOT speaking WOKE,.. was the hotbed of Chicago’s racist legacy. I used to say, “ everything west of State Street( south side),.. was Idaho!” The legacy of Marquette Park, Beverly and Mount Greenwood neighborhoods still carry the stench. SOUTHEAST side!!! That’s a different story ( although in some areas, just as racist ). It’s not as virulent , or as young people say,” toxic “ as the Southwest side south of Madison Street. Only Back of the Yards holds true to an area I respect ( my ma worked at the Stockyards)
These neighborhoods are Southside, not "southwest".
Thanks for not mentioning pilsen . They're way over thier heads over there
Um, those neighborhoods are not southwest
FYI the Chicago river is where the Chicago outfit was back in the day it was under control of Al Capone would dump bodies of killed mobsters in the Chicago River often chopped up and never notice why would they not notice because the slaughter yards of the stockyard were Chicago ones house thousands of cattle thousands of pigs thousands of lands and with slaughtered animals for the meat and throw the remaining of the carcass into the river so there was all kinds of body parts just floating around you couldn’t tell what it was but you know it was a body part sometimes some of them would be human and you never knew
Brighton park
It would be more accurate to call it the Near Southwest SIde.
ugh cars but cool neighborhoods
@ Chinatown is over rated 💯
Hey! Let's buy some Temu junk in person! 😂
Or hey, let's go eat some food that was cooked yesterday but was reheated today! 😂😂
Real Chicago???
Hello we built Chicago for over a 143 years we the Carpenter union Chicago st Luis and KC together are the mid-America Carpenters I live in Bridgeport currently there’s a good PBS documentary on Bridgeport Chicago at a time it was thee worst place to live because the smell from the Chicago river AKA Bubbling Creek because there were no EPA and factory’s dumped all wast in the rive like animals carcass now we have giant snapping turtles so big they made National Geographic FYI we Real Bridgeport go to Geo’s 27 Lowe for Breaded steak also check out Zelle’s for affordable breakfast and burgers and for fine Dining Franko’s
canaryville, the most toughest white neighborhood from Chicago
This is a great story! I will say, your background music is horrible. Definitely turned me off.
BOTY!
Bye
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