:South Side, Chicago

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There is some debate as to the South Side's boundaries. Originally the sides were taken from the banks of the Chicago River. The city's address numbering system uses a grid demarcating Madison Street as the east–west axis and State Street as the north–south axis. Madison is in the middle of the Loop.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, Streetwise Chicago, "Madison Street", p. 79, Loyola University Press, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-8294-0597-2}} As a result, much of the downtown "Loop" district is south of Madison Street, and the river, but the Loop is usually excluded from any of the Sides.

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One definition has the South Side beginning at Roosevelt Road, at the Loop's southern boundary, with the community area known as the Near South Side immediately adjacent. Another definition, taking into account that much of the Near South Side is in effect part of the commercial district extending in an unbroken line from the South Loop, locates the boundary immediately south of 18th Street or Cermak Road, where Chinatown in the Armour Square community area begins.

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Lake Michigan and the Indiana state line provide eastern boundaries. The southern border changed over time because of Chicago's evolving city limits. The city limits are now at 138th Street, in Riverdale and Hegewisch.{{cite web |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/calumet/Hegewisch.html |title=Hegewisch |access-date=November 25, 2012 |publisher=Field Museum of Natural History |archive-date=January 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121122204/http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/calumet/Hegewisch.html |url-status=live }} The South Side is larger in area than the North and West Sides combined.

Out of 77 community areas in the city, the South Side of Chicago comprises a total of 42 neighborhoods, with some divided into different regions of the area or consolidated into Chicago as part of the annexation of various townships within Cook County.{{Cite book |url=http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/Hyde%20Park%20Township%20-%20Chicago%20Annexed%20Neighborhood.pdf |title=Hyde Park Township, A Chicago Annexed Neighborhood |publisher=Living History of Illinois and Chicago® |pages=3 |access-date=February 9, 2023 |archive-date=February 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209215256/http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/Hyde%20Park%20Township%20-%20Chicago%20Annexed%20Neighborhood.pdf |url-status=live }}

• Armour Square
• Bridgeport
• Douglas
• Englewood (half of Englewood on its far left is connected with the Southwest Side of Chicago)
• Fuller Park
• Grand Boulevard
• Greater Grand Crossing
• Hyde Park
• Kenwood
• Oakland
• South Shore
• Washington Park
• Woodlawn

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• Archer Heights
• Brighton Park
• Chicago Lawn
• Clearing
• Gage Park
• Garfield Ridge
• McKinley Park
• New City
• West Elsdon
• West Englewood
• West Lawn

• Ashburn
• Auburn Gresham
• Beverly
• Morgan Park
• Mount Greenwood
• Washington Heights

• Avalon Park
• Burnside
• Calumet Heights
• Chatham
• East Side
• Hegewisch
• Pullman
• Riverdale
• Roseland
• South Chicago
• South Deering
• West Pullman

The exact boundaries dividing the Southwest, South, and Southeast Sides vary by source.{{cite news |url=http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2005/05/sides_up_in_the.html |author=Eric Zorn |title=Sides Up in the Air |date=May 30, 2005 |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=October 25, 2007 |archive-date=May 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529013111/http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2005/05/sides_up_in_the.html |url-status=live }} If primarily racial lines are followed, the South Side can generally be divided into a White and Hispanic Southwest Side, a largely Black South Side and a smaller, more racially diverse Southeast Side centered on the East Side community area and including the adjacent community areas of South Chicago, South Deering and Hegewisch.{{cite web |url=http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/sesidewlcme.html |title=Chicago's Southeast Side |year=2007 |publisher=Northeastern Illinois University |access-date=August 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709210603/http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/sesidewlcme.html |archive-date=July 9, 2007}}

The differing interpretations of the boundary between the South and Southwest Sides are due to a lack of a definite natural or artificial boundary. One source states that the boundary is Western Avenue or the railroad tracks adjacent to Western Avenue. This border extends further south to a former railroad right of way paralleling Beverly Avenue and then Interstate 57.

The Southwest Side of Chicago is a subsection of the South Side comprising mainly white, black, and Hispanic neighborhoods, usually dominated by one of these races. On the Southwest Side exclusively, the northern portion has a high concentration of Hispanics, the western portion has a high concentration of whites, and the eastern portion has a high concentration of blacks. Architecturally, the Southwest Side is distinguished by the tract of Chicago's Bungalow Belt, which runs through it.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1408.html |title=Bungalow Belt |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Chicago |author=Durkin Keatingj, Ann |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010132813/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1408.html |url-status=live }}

Archer Heights, a Polish enclave along Archer Avenue, which leads toward Midway Airport, is located on the Southwest Side of the city, as are Beverly and Morgan Park, home to a large concentration of Irish Americans.

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With its factories, steel mills and meat-packing plants, the South Side saw a sustained period of immigration which began around the 1840s and continued through World War II. Irish, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian and Yugoslav immigrants, in particular, settled in neighborhoods adjacent to industrial zones.

The Illinois Constitution gave rise to townships that provided municipal services in 1850. Several settlements surrounding Chicago incorporated as townships to better serve their residents. Growth and prosperity overburdened many local government systems. In 1889, most of these townships determined that they would be better off as part of a larger city of Chicago. Lake View, Jefferson, Lake, Hyde Park Townships and the Austin portion of Cicero voted to be annexed by the city in the June 29, 1889, elections.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2484.html |title=Townships |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Keating, Ann Durkin |access-date=October 23, 2007 |archive-date=November 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102122853/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2484.html |url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3716.html |access-date=October 23, 2007 |year=2005 |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Keating, Ann Durkin |title=Annexations and Additions to the City of Chicago |archive-date=April 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423213836/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/3716.html |url-status=live }}

After the Civil War freed millions of slaves, during Reconstruction black southerners migrated to Chicago and caused the black population to nearly quadruple from 4,000 to 15,000 between 1870 and 1890.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/27.html |access-date=August 10, 2007 |title=blacks |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Manning, Christopher |archive-date=January 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123215921/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/27.html |url-status=live }}

In the 20th century, the numbers expanded with the Great Migration, as blacks left the agrarian South seeking a better future in the industrial North, including the South Side. By 1910, the black population in Chicago reached 40,000, with 78% residing in the Black Belt.{{harvnb|Ralph|2006|p=175}} Extending 30 blocks, mostly between 31st and 55th Streets,{{harvnb|Ralph|2006|p=174}} along State Street, but only a few blocks wide, it developed into a vibrant community dominated by black businesses, music, food and culture.

As more blacks moved into the South Side, descendants of earlier immigrants, such as ethnic Irish, began to move out. Later housing pressures and civic unrest caused more whites to leave the area and the city. Older residents of means moved to newer suburban housing as new migrants entered the city,{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/916.html |access-date=August 10, 2007 |title=Oak Lawn, IL |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Gurlacz, Betsy |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820012230/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/916.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last1=Barnes |first1=R. |doi=10.1017/S0021875800020211 |title=Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960 (London: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983, £20). Pp. Xv, 362. {{Text|ISBN}} 0 521 24569 9 |journal=Journal of American Studies |volume=19 |pages=130 |year=2009 |s2cid=146381277}} driving further demographic changes.

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The South Side was racially segregated for many decades. During the 1920s and 1930s, housing cases on the South Side such as Hansberry v. Lee, {{ussc|311|32|1940}}, went to the U. S. Supreme Court.{{cite journal |last=Kamp |first=Allen R. |year=1986 |title=The History Behind Hansberry v. Lee |journal=U.C. Davis Law Review |volume=20 |pages=481 |url=http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/20/3/articles/DavisVol20No3_Kamp.pdf |access-date=November 15, 2012 |archive-date=May 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521152013/http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/20/3/articles/DavisVol20No3_Kamp.pdf |url-status=live }} The case, which reset the limitations of res judicata, successfully challenged racial restrictions in the Washington Park Subdivision by reopening them for legal argument. Blacks resided in Bronzeville (around 35th and State Streets) in an area called "the Black Belt". After World War II, blacks spread across the South Side; its center, east, and western portions. The Black Belt arose from discriminatory real estate practices by whites against blacks and other racial groups.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/514.html |title=Ghettoization |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Bennett, Larry |access-date=August 13, 2007 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102803/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/514.html |url-status=live }}

In the early 1960s,{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/440.html |title=Expressways |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=McClendon, Dennis |access-date=January 29, 2013 |archive-date=January 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102140013/http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/440.html |url-status=live }} during the tenure of then Mayor Richard J. Daley, the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway created controversy. Many perceived the highway's location as an intentional physical barrier between white and black neighborhoods,{{cite news |title=Chicago history and rebuilding the Dan Ryan |publisher=Real Times |newspaper=Chicago Defender |date=February 4, 2004 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-622354311.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518115840/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-622354311.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 18, 2013}} particularly as the Dan Ryan divided Daley's own neighborhood, the traditionally Irish Bridgeport, from Bronzeville.{{cite web |last=Royalty |first=Doug |url=http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_22/b3683058.htm |title=The Czar of Chicago |work=businessweek.com |publisher=Bloomberg Business Week |date=May 29, 2000 |access-date=May 3, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019173931/http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_22/b3683058.htm |archive-date=October 19, 2012 }}

The economic conditions that led to migration into the South Side were not sustained. Mid-century industrial restructuring in meat packing and the steel industry cost many jobs. Blacks who became educated and achieved middle-class jobs also left after the Civil Rights Movement to other parts of the city.

Street gangs have been prominent in some South Side neighborhoods for over a century, beginning with those of Irish immigrants, who established the first territories in a struggle against other European and black migrants. Some other neighborhoods stayed relatively safe for a big city. By the 1960s, gangs such as the Vice Lords began to improve their public image, shifting from criminal ventures to operating social programs funded by government and private grants. However, in the 1970s gangs returned to violence and the drug trade. By 2000, traditionally all-male gangs crossed gender lines to include about 20% females.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/497.html |access-date=August 10, 2007 |title=Gangs |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Diamond, Andrew J. |archive-date=August 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810024901/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/497.html |url-status=live }}

By the 1930s, the city of Chicago boasted that over 25% of its residential structures were less than 10 years old, many of which were bungalows. These continued to be built in the working-class South Side into the 1960s.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/186.html |title=Bungalows |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Bigott, Joseph C. |access-date=August 13, 2007 |archive-date=August 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827050919/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/186.html |url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1408.html |title=Bungalow Belt |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Keating, Ann Durkin |access-date=August 13, 2007 |archive-date=August 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816045406/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1408.html |url-status=live }} Studio apartments, with Murphy beds and kitchenettes or Pullman kitchens, comprised a large part of the housing supply during and after the Great Depression, especially in the "Black Belt".{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/692.html |access-date=August 13, 2007 |title=Kitchenettes |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Plotkin, Wendy |archive-date=August 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824231829/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/692.html |url-status=live }} The South Side had a history of philanthropic subsidized housing dating back to 1919.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1215.html |access-date=August 13, 2007 |title=Subsidized Housing |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Bowly Jr., Devereux |archive-date=November 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108130344/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1215.html |url-status=live }}

The United States Congress passed the Housing Act of 1949 to fund and improve public housing. CHA produced a plan of citywide projects, which was rejected by the Chicago City Council's white aldermen who opposed public housing in their wards. This led to a CHA policy of construction of family housing only in black residential areas, concentrated on the South and West Sides.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/253.html |title=Chicago Housing Authority |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Choldin, Harvey M. |access-date=August 13, 2007 |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820012245/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/253.html |url-status=live }} Historian Arnold R. Hirsch said the CHA was "a bulwark of segregation that helped sustain Chicago's 'second ghetto'".{{cite journal |title=Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953-1966 |journal=The Journal of American History |year=1995 |last=Hirsch |first=Arnold R. |author-link=Arnold R. Hirsch |volume=88 |issue=2 |pages=524 |doi=10.2307/2082185 |jstor=2082185}}

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Gentrification of parts of the Douglas community area has bolstered the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/511.html |access-date=August 10, 2007 |title=Gentrification |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Bennett, Larry |archive-date=September 7, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907080449/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/511.html |url-status=live }} Gentrification in various parts of the South Side has displaced many black citizens.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/901.html |access-date=August 10, 2007 |title=North Lawndale |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Seligman, Amanda |archive-date=January 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130063532/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/901.html |url-status=live }} The South Side offers numerous housing cooperatives. Hyde Park has several middle-income co-ops and other South Side regions have limited equity (subsidized, price-controlled) co-ops.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/325.html |title=Condominiums and Cooperatives |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Steffes, Tracy |access-date=August 13, 2007 |archive-date=August 20, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820012745/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/325.html |url-status=live }} These regions experienced condominium construction and conversion in the 1970s and 1980s.

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In the late 20th century, the South Side had some of the poorest housing conditions in the U.S., but the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) began replacing the old high-rise public housing with mixed-income, lower-density developments, part of the city's Plan for Transformation.{{cite web |url=http://www.thecha.org/transformplan/plan_summary.html |title=The CHA's Plan for Transformation |publisher=Chicago Housing Authority |year=2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809055852/http://www.thecha.org/transformplan/plan_summary.html |archive-date=August 9, 2007 }} Many of the CHA's massive public housing projects, which lined several miles of South State Street, have been demolished. Among the largest were the Robert Taylor Homes.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2478.html |title=Robert Taylor Homes |access-date=April 25, 2008 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |author=Gellman, Erik |archive-date=May 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516095724/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2478.html |url-status=live }}

Some census tracts (4904 in Roseland, 7106 in Auburn Gresham) are 99% black.{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/ |title=U.S. Census website |access-date=November 25, 2012 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709054630/https://www.census.gov/ |url-status=live }}

Hyde Park is home to the University of Chicago, as well as the South Side's largest Jewish population, centered on Chicago's oldest synagogue, the Chicago Landmark KAM Isaiah Israel.{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/K/KAMIsaiahIsrael.html |title=K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple |publisher=City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division |year=2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414081533/http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/K/KAMIsaiahIsrael.html |archive-date=April 14, 2008 |access-date=May 4, 2012}} The Southwest Side's ethnic makeup also includes the largest concentration of Gorals (Carpathian highlanders) outside of Europe; it is the location of the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America.{{cite web |url=http://www.zppa.org/kontakt/kontakt |title=Kontakt ZP |access-date=November 10, 2012 |publisher=zppa.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630154957/http://zppa.org/kontakt/kontakt |archive-date=June 30, 2012 |url-status=dead }} A large Mexican-American population resides in Little Village (South Lawndale) and areas south of 99th Street.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2462.html |title=Little Village |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Chicago |author=Gellman, Erik |year=2005 |archive-date=October 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013114148/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2462.html |url-status=live }}

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The South Side Irish Parade occurs in the Beverly neighborhood along Western Avenue each year on the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day. The parade, which was founded in 1979, was at one time said to be the largest Irish neighborhood St. Patrick's celebration in the world outside of Dublin, Ireland,{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200203/ai_mark03039308 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712044939/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200203/ai_mark03039308 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 12, 2012 |access-date=September 27, 2007 |date=March 2002 |publisher=FindArticles |work=Market Wire |title=South Side Irish Parade Expected To Draw Record Crowd}} and was—until being scaled back in 2012—actually larger than Chicago's other St. Patrick's Day parade in the Loop. The South Side parade became such an event that it was broadcast on Chicago's CBS affiliate.{{cite web |url=http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_070112246.html |access-date=September 27, 2007 |title=Pray, Parade and Party At South Side Irish Parade |author=Puccinelli, Mike |publisher=CBS Broadcasting, Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317220121/http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_070112246.html |archive-date=March 17, 2007 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=The South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee |title=Céad Míle Fáílte |publisher=South Side Irish Saint Patrick's Day Parade |date=March 25, 2009 |url=http://www.southsideirishparade.org/ |access-date=March 25, 2009 |archive-date=March 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329063840/http://www.southsideirishparade.org/ |url-status=live }}

Following the 2009 parade, organizers stated the group was "not planning to stage a parade in its present form". The parade was cancelled in 2010 and 2011 before being revived with more strict security and law enforcement.{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/south-side-irish-parade-fines_n_2057397.html |title=South Side Irish Parade: Fines Up To $1,000 Could Help Keep 'Idiots' Away |access-date=November 17, 2012 |date=November 1, 2012 |work=The Huffington Post |archive-date=November 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103070039/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/south-side-irish-parade-fines_n_2057397.html |url-status=live }} The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the second largest parade in the U.S. and the nation's largest black parade,{{cite web |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=ontv&id=4402494 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321184423/http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=ontv&id=4402494 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 21, 2007 |access-date=September 28, 2007 |year=2006 |title=ABC 7 Chicago Presents Live Broadcast Of The Bud Billiken Parade |publisher=ABC Inc., WLS-TV Chicago}} runs annually on Martin Luther King Drive between 31st and 51st Streets in the Bronzeville neighborhood, through the main portion of the South Side.

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Neighborhood rehabilitation, and in some cases, gentrification, can be seen in parts of Washington Park, Woodlawn (#42) and Bronzeville, as well as in Bridgeport and McKinley Park. Historic Pullman's redevelopment is another example of a work in progress. Chinatown is located on the South Side and has seen a surge in growth. It has become an increasingly popular destination for both tourists and locals alike and is a cornerstone of the city's Chinese community.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} The South Side offers many outdoor amenities, such as miles of public lakefront parks and beaches, as it borders Lake Michigan on its eastern side.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

Today's South Side is mostly a combination of the former Hyde Park and Lake Townships. Within these townships many had made speculative bets on future prosperity. Much of the South Side evolved from these speculative investments. Stephen A. Douglas, Paul Cornell, George Pullman and various business entities developed South Chicago real estate. The Pullman District, a former company town, Hyde Park Township, various platted communities and subdivisions were the results of such efforts.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1045.html |title=Real Estate |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=deVise, Pierre |access-date=August 13, 2007 |archive-date=August 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812032723/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1045.html |url-status=live }}

The Union Stock Yards, which were once located in the New City community area (#61), at one point employed 25,000 people and produced 82 percent of US domestic meat production.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagohs.org/history/stockyard/stock2.html |access-date=March 9, 2007 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |year=2001 |title=Meatpacking Technology |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404092653/http://www.chicagohs.org/history/stockyard/stock2.html |archive-date=April 4, 2007}} They were so synonymous with the city that for over a century they were part of the lyrics of Frank Sinatra's "My Kind of Town", in the phrase: "The Union Stock Yard, Chicago is ..." The Union Stock Yard Gate marking the old entrance to stockyards was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 24, 1972,{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/U/UnionStock.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203063051/http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/U/UnionStock.html |access-date=May 4, 2012 |title=Chicago Landmarks: Union Stock Yard Gate |publisher=City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division |year=2003 |archive-date=February 3, 2007}} and a National Historic Landmark on May 29, 1981.{{cite web |url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/IL01.pdf |title=National Historic Landmarks Survey: Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Illinois |access-date=March 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228124351/http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/IL01.pdf |archive-date=February 28, 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceID=1223&resourceType=Structure |access-date=March 30, 2007 |title=Old Stone Gate, Chicago Union Stockyards |publisher=National Park Service |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528154217/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceID=1223&resourceType=Structure |archive-date=May 28, 2008}}

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Other South Side regions have been known for great wealth, such as Prairie Avenue. 21st century redevelopment includes One Museum Park and One Museum Park West.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/600007.html |access-date=October 18, 2007 |title=The Worlds of Prairie Avenue |author=Reiff, Janice L. |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |archive-date=December 3, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203135028/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/600007.html |url-status=live }}

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The South Side accommodates much of the city's conference business with various convention centers. The current McCormick Place Convention Center is the largest convention center in the U.S. and the third largest in the world.{{cite web |url=http://www.ramada-chicago.com/conventions/ |access-date=October 22, 2007 |publisher=ramada-Chicago.com |title=Ramada Lake Shore Chicago |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015155519/http://ramada-chicago.com/conventions/ |archive-date=October 15, 2007}} Previously, the South Side hosted conventions at the Chicago Coliseum and the International Amphitheatre. The Ford City Mall and the surrounding shopping district includes several big-box retailers.

The South Side has been home to some of the most significant figures in the history of American politics. These include Richard J. Daley and his son, Richard M. Daley; the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama; the first black female U.S. Senator, Carol Moseley Braun; and the first black presidential candidate to win a primary, Jesse Jackson. Before them, Harold Washington, a Congressman and the first black Mayor of Chicago, as well as groundbreaking Congressman William L. Dawson, achieved political success from the South Side.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/11/02/obamas_home_has_long_produced_black_stars/ |title=Obama's home has long produced black stars |access-date=March 18, 2009 |date=November 2, 2008 |work=Boston Globe |author=Williams, Joseph |archive-date=April 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428030746/http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/11/02/obamas_home_has_long_produced_black_stars/ |url-status=live }}

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The University of Chicago is one of the world's leading universities, counting 97 affiliated Nobel laureates.{{Cite web |title=Nobel Prizes |url=https://www.uchicago.edu/who-we-are/global-impact/accolades/nobel-laureates |access-date=October 14, 2022 |website=www.uchicago.edu |language=en |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022065732/https://www.uchicago.edu/who-we-are/global-impact/accolades/nobel-laureates |url-status=live }} At Chicago Pile-1 at the university, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was achieved under the direction of Enrico Fermi in the 1940s.{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DEEDE123CF932A05750C0A9669C8B63&scp=32&sq=%22Jesse+Jackson%2C+Jr.%22&st=nyt |title=ON THE ROAD; Big Shoulders, Buffed for Action |access-date=April 20, 2008 |date=March 31, 2000 |work=The New York Times |author=Apple, R. W. Jr. |archive-date=May 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530084725/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DEEDE123CF932A05750C0A9669C8B63&scp=32&sq=%22Jesse+Jackson%2C+Jr.%22&st=nyt |url-status=live }}

Other four-year educational institutions there are the Illinois Institute of Technology, St. Xavier University, Chicago State University, Illinois College of Optometry and Shimer College.{{cite web |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php |access-date=October 17, 2007 |publisher=U.S. News & World Report, L.P. |title=America's Best Colleges 2008: National Universities: Top Schools |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730131502/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php |archive-date=July 30, 2008 }} The South Side also hosts community colleges such as Olive-Harvey College, Kennedy-King College and Richard J. Daley College.{{cite web |url=http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/Education_GraduateDegree_1.pdf |publisher=City of Chicago.org |title=Chicago Demographics:Distribution of Residents Whose Highest Education is a Master's Degree or Ph.D. (as of the 2000 Census) |access-date=October 31, 2007 |year=2007}}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Chicago Public Schools operates the public schools on the South Side, including DuSable High School, Simeon Career Academy, John Hope College Prep High School and Phillips Academy High School.Goldstein, Tom. "[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/24/archives/new-yorks-administrative-judge-herbert-bernette-evans-man-in-the.html New York's Administrative Judge; Herbert Bernette Evans Man in the News A Hankering for Administration Opinion in Murder Appeal Born in Kansas City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722221533/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/24/archives/new-yorks-administrative-judge-herbert-bernette-evans-man-in-the.html |date=July 22, 2018 }}." The New York Times. Saturday February 24, 1979."[https://abc7chicago.com/archive/6049909/ Student shot to death near high school] ." WLS-TV. March 29, 2008.Janson, Donald. "[https://www.nytimes.com/1969/04/04/archives/troops-patrol-in-chicago-as-slum-violence-erupts-guardsmen-patrol.html Troops Patrol in Chicago As Slum Violence Erupts; Guardsmen Patrol in Chicago as Violence Erupts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722213756/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/04/04/archives/troops-patrol-in-chicago-as-slum-violence-erupts-guardsmen-patrol.html |date=July 22, 2018 }}." The New York Times. Friday April 4, 1969. Page 1.Wallis, Claudia. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20070524105557/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1618468,00.html On a Listening Tour with Melinda Gates]." TIME. Tuesday May 8, 2007.

The De La Salle Institute, located in the Douglas community area across the street from Chicago Police Department headquarters, has taught five Chicago Mayors:{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1627286.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518120948/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1627286.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 18, 2013 |title=De La Salle expansion to save theater: Has deal with city to buy |publisher=Sun-Times News Group |work=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=October 11, 2007 |date=May 18, 2006 |author=Roeder, David}} Richard J. Daley, Michael A. Bilandic, Martin H. Kennelly, Frank J. Corr and Richard M. Daley. Three of these mayors hail from the South Side's Bridgeport community area, which also produced two other Chicago Mayors.{{cite web |url=http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LockZero/v.html |title=Political History of Bridgeport |access-date=November 27, 2012 |publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202759/http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LockZero/V.html |url-status=live }}

University of Chicago Lab School, affiliated with the University of Chicago, is a private school located there.

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The South Side is home to many official landmarks and other notable buildings and structures.{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/Maps/FarSouth.html |title=Far South |access-date=October 31, 2007 |publisher=City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. |year=2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529011356/http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/Maps/FarSouth.html |archive-date=May 29, 2008 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/Maps/South.html |title=South and West |access-date=October 31, 2007 |publisher=City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. |year=2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621115332/http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/Maps/South.html |archive-date=June 21, 2007 |url-status=dead}} It hosts three of the four Chicago Registered Historic Places from the original October 15, 1966 National Register of Historic Places list (Chicago Pile-1, Robie House and Lorado Taft Midway Studios).{{NRISref|2007a}}

One Museum Park, which is along Roosevelt Road, is the tallest building on the South Side.{{cite web |url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=1museumpark-chicago-il-usa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206033813/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=1museumpark-chicago-il-usa |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 6, 2007 |title=One Museum Park |publisher=Emporis.com |access-date=October 11, 2007 |year=2007}} One Museum Park West, which is next door to One Museum Park, is another of Chicago's tallest. 1700 East 56th Street in Hyde Park is the tallest building south of 13th Street. This neighborhood hosts several other highrises.

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Many landmark buildings are found in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District,{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/districtdetails.htm?disId=6&counter=28 |title=Black Metropolis |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009175454/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/districtdetails.htm?disId=6&counter=28 |url-status=live }} including Powhatan Apartments, Robie House and John J. Glessner House.{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1402 |title=Powhatan Apartments |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005020159/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1402 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1413 |title=Robie House |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005180316/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1413 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1315&counter=132 |title=Glessner House |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013101832/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1315&counter=132 |url-status=live }} The South Side has many of Chicago's premier places of worship such as Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, First Church of Deliverance and K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple.{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1293&counter=91 |title=Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006111245/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1293&counter=91 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1302&counter=115 |title=First Church of Deliverance |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012215609/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1302&counter=115 |url-status=live }}

The South Side has several landmark districts including two in Barack Obama's Kenwood community area: Kenwood District, North Kenwood District and (partially) Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District.{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/districtdetails.htm?disId=16&counter=181 |title=Kenwood District |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013145010/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/districtdetails.htm?disId=16&counter=181 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/districtdetails.htm?disId=21 |title=North Kenwood Multiple Resource District |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010212810/http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/districtdetails.htm?disId=21 |url-status=live }} The South Side hosts the Museum of Science and Industry,{{cite web |url=http://www.msichicago.org/ |access-date=October 11, 2007 |title=Museum of Science and Industrydate=2007 |archive-date=January 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114224844/http://www.msichicago.org/ |url-status=live }} located in the Palace of Fine Arts, one of the few remaining buildings from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition,{{cite web |url=http://www.msichicago.org/press/general/history0805.pdf |access-date=October 11, 2007 |title=New Release |publisher=Museum of Science and Industry |author1=Miner, Lisa |author2=Beth Boston |name-list-style=amp |work=msichicago.org |year=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925092714/http://www.msichicago.org/press/general/history0805.pdf |archive-date=September 25, 2006 |url-status=dead}} which was hosted in South Side.

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The South Side is the residence of other prominent black leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. It is also where U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther leader, serves.

The South Side has been a place of political controversy. Although the locations of some of these notable controversies have not become official landmarks, they remain important parts of Chicago history. The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer of 1919 and required 6,000 National Guard troops.{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9023985/Chicago-Race-Riot-of-1919 |access-date=August 24, 2007 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |year=2007 |title=Chicago Race Riot of 1919 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804221249/https://www.britannica.com/event/Chicago-Race-Riot-of-1919 |url-status=live }} As mentioned above, segregation has been a political theme of controversy for some time on the South Side as exhibited by Hansberry v. Lee, {{ussc|311|32|1940}}.{{cite web |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/311/32/case.html |title=Hansberry v. Lee - 311 U.S. 32 (1940) |access-date=November 27, 2012 |publisher=Justia |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010052625/http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/311/32/case.html |url-status=live }}

President Obama announced in 2015 that the Barack Obama Presidential Center would be built adjacent the University of Chicago campus.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-obama-library-chicagos-south-side-30975359 |access-date=May 12, 2015 |date=May 12, 2015 |agency=Associated Press |author1=Babwin, Don |author2=Caryn Rousseau |name-list-style=amp |title=It's Official Obama Library Will be on South Side |publisher=Jalic Inc |work=ABC News |archive-date=May 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513063148/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-obama-library-chicagos-south-side-30975359 |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3854751/president-obama-library-chicago/ |title=President Obama's $600 Million Gift to Chicago: A Presidential Library |access-date=May 19, 2015 |date=May 12, 2015 |magazine=Time |author=Rhodan, Mary |archive-date=May 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521082145/http://time.com/3854751/president-obama-library-chicago/ |url-status=live }} Both Washington Park and Jackson Park were considered and it was announced in July 2016 that it would be built in Jackson Park.Katherine Skiba, [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamalibrary/ct-obama-library-jackson-park-announced-met-20160729-story.html Obama Foundation makes it official: Presidential library will go up in Jackson Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104033258/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamalibrary/ct-obama-library-jackson-park-announced-met-20160729-story.html? |date=November 4, 2016 }}, Chicago Tribune (June 29, 2016).

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The South Side is served by mass transit as well as roads and highways. Midway International Airport is located on the South Side.{{cite web |url=http://www.ifly.com/chicago-midway-international-airport |title=Chicago Midway (MDW) Airport |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=IFly.com |archive-date=November 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130082541/http://www.ifly.com/chicago-midway-international-airport |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://chicago-mdw.worldairportguides.com/ |title=Chicago Midway International Airport Guide |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Worldairportguides.com |archive-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117054437/http://chicago-mdw.worldairportguides.com/ |url-status=usurped }} Among the highways through the South Side are I-94 (which goes by the names Dan Ryan Expressway, Bishop Ford Freeway and Kingery Expressway on the South Side), I-90 (which goes by the names Dan Ryan Expressway and Chicago Skyway on the South Side), I-57, I-55, U.S. 12, U.S. 20 and U.S. 41.{{cite web |url=http://wrc.dot.il.gov/stateroadmap/images/pdf/chicago.pdf |title=Chicago and Vicinity |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Illinois Department of Transportation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081650/http://wrc.dot.il.gov/stateroadmap/images/pdf/chicago.pdf |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}

Several Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus and train lines and Metra train lines link the South Side to rest of the city. The South Side is served by the Red, Green and Orange lines of the CTA and the Rock Island District, Metra Electric and South Shore Metra lines and a few stops on the SouthWest Service Metra line. Standard local metropolitan bus service and CTA express service bus routes provide service to the Loop.{{cite web |url=http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/maps/2007C.html |access-date=September 27, 2007 |publisher=Chicago Transit Authority |title=Central System Map |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716183407/http://transitchicago.com/maps/maps/2007C.html |archive-date=July 16, 2007}}

Chicago's African American community, concentrated on the South Side, experienced an artistic movement from the 1930s until the 1960s. The movement was concentrated in and around the Hyde Park community area. Prominent writers and artists included Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Richard Hunt, Gordon Parks, and Richard Wright.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/72.html |access-date=August 10, 2007 |title=Art |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Warren, Lynne |archive-date=July 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718070349/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/72.html |url-status=live }}

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Other Chicago Black Renaissance artists included Willard Motley, William Attaway, Frank Marshall Davis, and Margaret Walker. St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton represented the new wave of intellectual expression in literature by depicting the culture of the urban ghetto rather than the culture of blacks in the South in the monograph Black Metropolis.{{google books|8RPgI6EhRvwC|Black Metropolis, Volume 1 - St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton}} In 1961, Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of African American History. By the late 1960s the South Side had a robost art movement led by Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum and others, who became known as the Chicago Imagists.

Music in Chicago flourished, with musicians bringing blues and gospel influences up from the South and creating a Chicago sound in blues and jazz that the city is still renowned for. The South Side was known for its R&B acts and the city as a while had successful rock acts. Many major and independent record companies had a presence in Chicago.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1048.html |access-date=August 13, 2007 |title=Record Publishing |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Clague, Mark |archive-date=August 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824114219/http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1048.html |url-status=live }} In 1948, Blues was introduced by Aristocrat Records (later Chess Records). Muddy Waters and Chess Records quickly followed with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, and Howlin' Wolf.

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Vee-Jay, the largest black-owned label before Motown Records, was among the post-World War II companies that formed "Record Row" on Cottage Grove between 47th and 50th Streets. In the 1960s, it was located along South Michigan Avenue.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1070.html |access-date=August 13, 2007 |title=Rhythm and Blues |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |author=Pruter, Robert |archive-date=August 25, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825131308/http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1070.html |url-status=live }} Rhythm and blues continued to thrive after Record Row became the hub of gospelized rhythm and blues, known as soul. Chicago continues as a prominent musical city.

Many other artists have left their mark on Chicago's South Side. These include writers Upton Sinclair and James Farrell, Archibald Motley Jr. via painting, Henry Moore and Lorado Taft via sculpture and Thomas Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson via gospel music. The South Side has many art museums and galleries such as the DuSable Museum of African American History,{{cite web |url=http://www.dusablemuseum.org/ |title=Dusable Museum of Art |access-date=October 11, 2007 |year=2007 |archive-date=August 16, 2015 |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20150816064809/http://www.dusablemuseum.org// |url-status=live }} National Museum of Mexican Art,{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/ |publisher=National Museum of Mexican Art |title=National Museum of Mexican Art |access-date=October 24, 2007 |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012073906/http://nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/ |url-status=live }} National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum,{{cite web |url=http://www.nvvam.org/ |access-date=October 24, 2007 |publisher=National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum |title=National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023063750/http://www.nvvam.org/ |url-status=live }} and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (known as the Smart Museum).{{cite web |url=http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/ |title=Smart Museum of African American Art |publisher=The University of Chicago |access-date=October 11, 2007 |year=2007 |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311082927/http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/ |url-status=live }} In addition, cultural centers such as the South Shore Cultural Center, South Side Community Art Center, Harold Washington Cultural Center and Hyde Park Art Center bring art and culture to the public while fostering opportunities for artists.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/73.html |title=South Side Community Art Center |access-date=October 25, 2007 |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |archive-date=August 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830005658/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/73.html |url-status=live }} The Bronzeville Children's Museum is the only African American Children's museum in the U.S.{{cite web |url=http://www.bronzevillechildrensmuseum.com/ |title=About the Bronzeville Children's Museum |access-date=May 11, 2010 |publisher=Bronzeville Children's Museum |archive-date=April 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413105344/http://www.bronzevillechildrensmuseum.com/ |url-status=live }}

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The Chicago Park District boasts {{convert|7300|acre|km2}} of parkland, 552 parks, 33 beaches, nine museums, two world-class conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and ten bird/wildlife gardens.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.home.cfm |access-date=October 17, 2007 |publisher=Chicago Park District |title=Parks & Facilities |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071009223604/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.home.cfm |archive-date=October 9, 2007}} Many of these are on the South Side, including several large parks that are part of the legacy of Paul Cornell's service on the South Parks Commission. He was also the father of Hyde Park.

Chicago Park District parks serving the South Side include Burnham Park,{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Burnham-Park/ |title=Burnham Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102020035/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Burnham-Park/ |url-status=live }} Jackson Park,{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/jackson-park/ |title=Jackson Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905154616/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/jackson-park/ |url-status=live }} Washington Park,{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/washington-park/ |title=Washington Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107133343/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/washington-park/ |url-status=live }} Midway Plaisance,{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Midway-Plaisance-Park/ |title=Midway Plaisance Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-date=April 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416014900/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Midway-Plaisance-Park/ |url-status=live }} and Harold Washington Park.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Harold-Washington-Playlot-Park/ |title=Harold Washington Playlot Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223073411/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Harold-Washington-Playlot-Park/ |archive-date=February 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }} Away from the Hyde Park area, large parks include the {{convert|69|acre|adj=on}} McKinley Park,{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/McKinley-Park/ |title=McKinley Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905181136/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/McKinley-Park/ |url-status=live }} {{convert|323|acre|adj=on}} Marquette Park,{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Marquette-Park/ |title=Marquette Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-date=October 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020065100/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Marquette-Park/ |url-status=live }} the {{convert|198|acre|adj=on}} Calumet Park,{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Calumet-Park/ |title=Calumet Park |access-date=November 18, 2012 |publisher=Chicago Park District |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010054232/http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Calumet-Park/ |url-status=live }} and the {{convert|173|acre|adj=on}} Douglass Park.{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/douglass-anna-frederick-park |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306165841/https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/douglass-anna-frederick-park |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |title=Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park |access-date=December 21, 2020 |publisher=Chicago Park District}} The parks of Chicago foster and host tremendous amounts of athletic activities.

The South Side has the only Illinois state park within the city of Chicago: William W. Powers State Recreation Area. Other opportunities for more "natural" recreation are provided by the Cook County Forest Preserve's Dan Ryan Woods and the Beaubien Woods on the far south side, along the Little Calumet River{{cite web |url=http://www.fpdcc.com/downloads/Region9FA.pdf |title=Region 9 Map Of Natural Areas & Activities |access-date=July 25, 2009 |publisher=The Forest Preserve District of Cook County |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009015936/http://www.fpdcc.com/downloads/Region9FA.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2007}}

Various events cause the closure of parts of Lake Shore Drive. Although the Chicago Marathon causes many roads to be closed in its route that goes as far north as Wrigleyville and to Bronzeville on the South Side, it does not cause closures to the drive.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagomarathon.com/CMS400Min/uploadedFiles/Chicago_Marathon/Runner_Information/07_Course_Map_Vert_CMYK.pdf |access-date=September 27, 2007 |title=The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon 2007 Course Map |publisher=chicagomarathon.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007105323/http://www.chicagomarathon.com/CMS400Min/uploadedFiles/Chicago_Marathon/Runner_Information/07_Course_Map_Vert_CMYK.pdf |archive-date=October 7, 2007}} On the South Side, the Chicago Half Marathon necessitates closures{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagohalfmarathon.com/ |access-date=September 27, 2007 |publisher=Devine Sports |title=The Chicago Half Marathon |archive-date=September 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922125857/http://www.chicagohalfmarathon.com/ |url-status=live }} and the entire drive is closed for Bike The Drive.{{cite web |url=http://www.bikethedrive.org/ |access-date=September 27, 2007 |title=Bank America Bike The Drive |publisher=Chicagoland Bicycle Federation |archive-date=September 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922184225/http://bikethedrive.org/ |url-status=live }}

Beginning in 1905, the White City Amusement Park, located on 63rd Street provided a recreational area to the citizens of the area.{{Cite news |page=9 |title=White City is Opened |newspaper=Chicago Record Herald |date=May 27, 1905 |url=http://chicago.urban-history.org/sites/parks/w_city03.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530133753/http://chicago.urban-history.org/sites/parks/w_city03.htm |archive-date=May 30, 2008}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/48.html |title=Amusement Parks |access-date=December 13, 2008 |year=2005 |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |encyclopedia=The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago |author=Barker, Stan |archive-date=December 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209093537/http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/48.html |url-status=live }} Until the early 1920s, a dirigible service ran from the park, which was also where Goodyear Blimps were first produced, to Grant Park. This service was discontinued after the Wingfoot Air Express Crash.{{cite news |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:CTRB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0FF6710610505244&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420 |title=The Roller-Coaster Life Of Towering And Tawdry White City |access-date=December 13, 2008 |date=April 6, 1986 |publisher=Newsbank |work=Chicago Tribune |author=Estep, George |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313114354/https://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:CTRB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0FF6710610505244&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420 |url-status=live }} A fire destroyed much of the park in the late 1920s and more was torn down in the 1930s. The park filed for bankruptcy in 1933 and 1943. Despite attempts to resurrect the park in 1936 and 1939, by 1946 all the remaining equipment was auctioned off.{{cite news |title=Fiery White City Comes to Blazing End |work=Chicago Tribune |author=Bond, Jean |date=December 6, 1959 |page=SW2}}

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The South Side hosts three major professional athletic teams: Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox play at Rate Field in the Armour Square neighborhood, while the National Football League's Chicago Bears and Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer play at Soldier Field, adjacent to the Museum Campus on the Near South Side.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagobears.com/tickets/IndividualGameTickets.asp |access-date=October 8, 2007 |publisher=CHICAGO BEARS |title=Individual Game Tickets |year=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011013758/http://www.chicagobears.com/tickets/IndividualGameTickets.asp |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ballpark/cws_attractions_map.jsp |access-date=October 8, 2007 |publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P. |title=U.S. Cellular Field Attractions |year=2007 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145550/http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ballpark/cws_attractions_map.jsp |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last=Mikula |first=Jeremy |title=Chicago Fire are returning to Soldier Field beginning with the 2020 MLS season: 'This can change the whole tenor of the club' |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/soccer/ct-chicago-fire-soldier-field-20191008-57jrs5qatvgoxhwipathptuq5i-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=December 27, 2019 |date=October 8, 2019 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220012240/https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/soccer/ct-chicago-fire-soldier-field-20191008-57jrs5qatvgoxhwipathptuq5i-story.html |url-status=live }}

Nine other teams—five now defunct, two playing in other media markets, and two now playing in another part of Chicago—have called the South Side home. When the National League baseball team now known as the Chicago Cubs was founded in 1870, their first playing field was Dexter Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. From 1874 to 1877 they played at 23rd Street Grounds in what is now Chinatown, and from 1891 to 1893 they played some of their games at South Side Park, which was located in the same place that Comiskey Park was built for the Chicago White Sox in 1910. South Side Park was also home to the Chicago Pirates of the short-lived Player's League in 1890. Another baseball field, also known as South Side Park, stood nearby in 1884 and was home to the Chicago Unions of the equally short-lived Union League.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-chicago-lost-sports-venues-htmlstory.html |title=Chicago's lost sports venues |date=August 17, 2017 |access-date=June 11, 2018 |publisher=ChicagoTribune.com |archive-date=June 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611191139/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-chicago-lost-sports-venues-htmlstory.html |url-status=live }}

The defunct Chicago American Giants baseball club of the Negro leagues played at Schorling's Park from 1911 to 1940, and then at Comiskey Park until 1952. In football, the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League originally played at Normal Park but eventually moved to Comiskey Park in the late 1920s. The Cardinals left Chicago for St. Louis in 1960 and in 1988 for Phoenix, where they became the Arizona Cardinals.{{cite web |url=http://www.azcardinals.com/history/franchise.html |title=History |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=AZCardinals.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105212420/http://www.azcardinals.com/history/franchise.html |archive-date=November 5, 2012 |url-status=dead }} In hockey, the Chicago Cougars of the WHA played in the International Amphitheatre, located next to the Union Stock Yards, from 1972 until their demise in 1975.{{cite web |url=http://www.whahockey.com/cougars.html |title=Chicago Cougars |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=WHAHockey.com |archive-date=May 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523044015/http://www.whahockey.com/cougars.html |url-status=live }}

Two NBA teams also briefly played on the South Side. The Chicago Packers played at the Amphitheatre in their inaugural season of {{nbay|1961}}. The following season, they changed their name to the Zephyrs and played at the Chicago Coliseum on the Near South Side. The team moved to Baltimore after that season and now plays in Washington, D.C., as the Washington Wizards.{{cite web |url=http://www.nba.com/wizards/WizHistory_010806.html |title=A Colorful Tradition |access-date=November 13, 2012 |work=NBA.com |author=Hareas, John |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111012508/http://www.nba.com/wizards/WizHistory_010806.html |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |url-status=dead }} Chicago's current NBA team, the Bulls, played at the Amphitheatre during their first season{{cite web |url=http://www.nba.com/bulls/history/chicago_stadium.html |title=Chicago Stadium History |access-date=December 12, 2012 |work=NBA.com |archive-date=November 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116213129/http://www.nba.com/bulls/history/chicago_stadium.html |url-status=live }} before moving away from the South Side to Chicago Stadium and eventually to United Center.

The Chicago Sky of the WNBA moved to Wintrust Arena, which opened in 2017 at McCormick Place on the Near South Side, in 2018. The venue is also home to both the men's and women's basketball teams of DePaul University, with the men exclusively using Wintrust Arena and the women splitting home games between that venue and DePaul's North Side campus.{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/ct-sky-home-games-wintrust-arena-20170725-story.html |title=Sky will play next season at new Wintrust Arena in South Loop |access-date=July 26, 2017 |date=July 25, 2017 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |first=Shannon |last=Ryan |archive-date=July 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726105437/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/ct-sky-home-games-wintrust-arena-20170725-story.html |url-status=live }}

The defunct Chicago Sting soccer club played at Soldier Field and Comiskey Park from 1974 to 1984.{{cite web |url=http://www.stadiumsusa.com/stadium/soldier-field-60605/Chicago+Bears |title=Soldier Field |access-date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=StadiumsUSA.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526020354/http://www.stadiumsusa.com/stadium/soldier-field-60605/Chicago+Bears |archive-date=May 26, 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.redeyechicago.com/sports/redeye-wrigley-fields-nonbaseball-events-20120-008,0,1524599.photo |title=Chicago Sting: 1974–1984 |access-date=November 13, 2012 |date=May 16, 2012 |work=RedEye |archive-date=May 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530014444/http://www.redeyechicago.com/sports/redeye-wrigley-fields-nonbaseball-events-20120-008,0,1524599.photo |url-status=live }}

In NCAA Division I sports, the Chicago State Cougars represent the South Side, competing in the Northeast Conference. As noted above, DePaul began playing its home men's basketball games on the South Side in 2017, though most of its other sports (including part of the women's basketball home schedule) remain on or near its main North Side campus.

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The South Side played a prominent role in Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Olympic Village was planned in the Douglas (#35) community area across Lake Shore Drive from Burnham Park.{{cite news |url=http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=24588&bt=Olympic+Bid&arc=n&searchType=all |access-date=September 27, 2007 |date=April 14, 2007 |title=USOC picks Chicago for 2016 Olympic bid |author=Hinz, Greg |publisher=Crain Communications, Inc. |work=ChicagoBusiness |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219160710/http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=24588&bt=Olympic%2BBid&arc=n&searchType=all |archive-date=December 19, 2007 }} In addition, the Olympic Stadium was expected to be located in the Chicago Park District's Washington Park located in the Washington Park (#40) community area.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=23589 |access-date=September 27, 2007 |title=Glitz, guarantees added to Olympic bid |author=Hinz, Greg |date=January 23, 2007 |publisher=Crain Communications, Inc. |work=ChicagoBusiness |archive-date=July 9, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709231123/http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=23589 |url-status=live }} Many Olympic events were planned for these community areas as well as other parts of the South Side.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicago2016.org/News_story.aspx?NewsStory=25 |title=Chicago 2016 Venue Plan |access-date=October 17, 2007 |date=January 23, 2007 |publisher=Chicago 2016, City of Chicago, Applicant City, 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210031326/http://www.chicago2016.org/News_story.aspx?NewsStory=25 |archive-date=February 10, 2007}}

The South Side's gritty reputation often makes its way into popular culture.

• The opening lines of Jim Croce's 1973 song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" state that the South Side is "the baddest part of town".{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jAoyUkCVWAC&q=Croce+%22Bad,+Bad+Leroy+Brown%22+%22the+baddest+part+of+town%22&pg=PA2 |page=2 |title=Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope |publisher=Globe Pequot |author=Lightfoot, Elizabeth |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-59921-521-1 |access-date=November 21, 2020 |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313114450/https://books.google.com/books?id=9jAoyUkCVWAC&q=Croce+%22Bad,+Bad+Leroy+Brown%22+%22the+baddest+part+of+town%22&pg=PA2#v=snippet&q=Croce%20%22Bad%2C%20Bad%20Leroy%20Brown%22%20%22the%20baddest%20part%20of%20town%22&f=false |url-status=live }}
• Richard Wright's novel Native Son ({{ISBN|978-0-06-083756-3}}) takes place on the South Side and focuses on the plight of African Americans in the ghetto, including the housing practices that created such slums.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/books/a-native-son-in-exile.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=December 29, 2012 |title=A Native Son in Exile |work=The New York Times |author=Anderson, Michael |date=August 26, 2001 |archive-date=May 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522095444/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/books/a-native-son-in-exile.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |url-status=live }}
• Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle ({{ISBN|978-1-884365-30-0}}) was a revelation about the Union Stock Yards at the turn of the 20th century.{{cite web |url=http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/ |access-date=October 15, 2007 |title=Upton Sinclair |publisher=Jalic Inc |work=The Literature Network |archive-date=March 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317204438/http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/ |url-status=live }}
• A Raisin in the Sun ({{ISBN|978-0-451-18388-0}}) is a story of Lorraine Hansberry's youth growing up in the Woodlawn community area.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/raisin/ |access-date=October 17, 2007 |title=A Raisin in the Sun |date=March 12, 2002 |publisher=National Public Radio |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020003812/http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/raisin/ |archive-date=October 20, 2007 |url-status=dead }}
• Barbershop and parts of The Blues Brothers take place on the South Side. David Auburn's play Proof takes place exclusively in the Hyde Park neighborhood; the 2005 film adaptation expands the setting.{{cite web |url=http://www.enjoyillinois.com/movies/region-chicago.html |title=On Screen Illinois |access-date=August 11, 2008 |publisher=Universal Studios |work=Illinois Mile After Mile |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403230610/http://www.enjoyillinois.com/movies/region-chicago.html |archive-date=April 3, 2008 |url-status=dead}}
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a novel and film dealing with the integration of the CIA. The majority of the story takes place on the South Side of Chicago where the sole graduating black cadet is from.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hF_xjFL6_NEC&q=The+Spook+Who+Sat+by+the+Door&pg=PA161 |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought |access-date=September 6, 2012 |year=2010 |volume=1 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533473-9 |last1=Irele |first1=Abiola |first2=Biodun |last2=Jeyifo |page=161 |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313114442/https://books.google.com/books?id=hF_xjFL6_NEC&q=The+Spook+Who+Sat+by+the+Door&pg=PA161#v=snippet&q=The%20Spook%20Who%20Sat%20by%20the%20Door&f=false |url-status=live }}
• The Boondocks, a comic strip and animated series, stars the Freeman family, who have recently moved from the South Side of Chicago to an affluent suburb.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9DxH3QcR4MC&q=Boondocks+freeman |title=The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper |access-date=September 6, 2012 |year=2000 |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |isbn=978-0-7407-0609-7 |last=McGruder |first=Aaron |page=5 |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313114355/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9DxH3QcR4MC&q=Boondocks+freeman#v=snippet&q=Boondocks%20freeman&f=false |url-status=live }}
• James T. Farrell's novels, collectively called the Studs Lonigan Trilogy, are set in an Irish neighborhood on the South Side.{{cite web |url=http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=203 |access-date=November 20, 2007 |title=Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy |publisher=The Library of America |archive-date=October 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014234216/http://loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=203 |url-status=live }}
• Iceberg Slim, the author of Pimp, was raised on the South Side of Chicago, which is the setting of most of his stories. He sold over six million books, which were translated, further disseminating his depiction of life of the South Side.{{cite web |url=http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/21/ice.html |title=A Tribute to Iceberg Slim |access-date=March 28, 2009 |year=1998 |publisher=WFMU |archive-date=April 7, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090407002325/http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/21/ice.html |url-status=live }}
• Chicago's South Side is the setting for the Showtime series Shameless and the Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago PD TV series produced by Dick Wolf.
• The South Side is seen in Netflix's Sense8 series, in the scenes of Will.
• Kanye West was raised in Chicago's South Side and frequently mentions it in his music. His lyrical references are heard in the song "All Falls Down" where he can be heard saying "South Side, South Side, we gon' set this party off right". Other examples include "All Day" ("South, South, South Side"), "Feedback" (You borrow our motto, I'm a Chicago south sider) Famous ("For all my Southside n***as that know me best), and Wash Us in the Blood ("South Side let it bang, outside let it rain", and later in the song - "South Side what it does").
• In the 2004 film Mean Girls, which takes place in Evanston, Illinois, Mr. Duvall responds to a school-wide fight with, "Oh hell no, I did not leave the South Side for this!"
• The TV series South Side was co-created and written by Bashir Salahuddin, who was born and raised on the South Side.
• Chief Keef was raised on the South Side of Chicago, in the Parkway Garden Homes. He references the South Side in his music, such as the song "South Side". He references the South Side in the song "Almighty Gnar", with Lil Gnar.

• South Side Irish
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• Bachin, Robin F. Building the South Side: Urban space and civic culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
• Carroll, Christopher R. "Catholicism (s) on Chicago's Southside: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among Early-Generation Irish and Mexican Americans" (Diss. Northwestern University, 2018) [https://www.proquest.com/openview/fa94cd1a6d989ba1ec77c6c69335df15/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 online].
• Kennedy, Bridget Houlihan. Chicago's South Side Irish Parade (Arcadia Publishing, 2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=3fIRPexyX-AC&dq=South+Side+Irish+Chicago&pg=PA6 online].
• Moore, Natalie Y. The south side: A portrait of Chicago and American segregation (Macmillan, 2016) [https://books.google.com/books?id=EAyGCwAAQBAJ&dq=South+Side+Irish+Chicago&pg=PR11 online].
• Pacyga, Dominic A. Polish immigrants and industrial Chicago: Workers on the south side, 1880-1922 (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• {{cite book |last=Ralph |first=James |year=2006 |editor=Reich, Steven A. |title=Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration |volume=1 |isbn=0-313-32983-4 |location=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood Press |chapter=Chicago, Illinois}}
• Rotella, Carlo. The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (2020) [https://www.amazon.com/World-Always-Coming-End-Neighborhood/dp/022675961X/ excerpt]
• Borrelli, Christopher. "A writer comes home to ever-changing South Shore to find the middle class disappearing" [https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-carlo-rotella-south-shore-chi-0512-story.html Chicago Tribune May 9, 2019]
• Rodkin, Dennis. "Why does South Shore resist gentrification? Carlo Rotella is a Boston-based author of a new book that explores race, class and history in the lakefront Chicago neighborhood where he grew up." [https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/why-does-south-shore-resist-gentrification Crain's Chicago Business June 26, 2019]
• Small, Mario Luis. "Is there such a thing as ‘The Ghetto’? The perils of assuming that the South Side of Chicago represents poor black neighborhoods." City 11.3 (2007): 413–421.

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