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Douglas, located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois is one of 77 well-defined Chicago community areas. The neighborhood is named for Stephen A. Douglas, a famous Illinois politician, whose estate included a tract of land given to the federal government. The Douglas tract later became the infamous Civil War Union prison camp, Camp Douglas, located in what is now the eastern portion of the Douglas neighborhood. As part of the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid, the Olympic Village was planned to be located on a 37-acre (150,000 m2) truck parking lot south of McCormick Place that is mostly in the Douglas community area and partly in the Near South Side.[1] The Douglas community area stretches from 26th Street South to Pershing Road along the Lake Shore including parts of the Green Line along State Street and the Metra Electric and Amtrak passenger railroad tracks which run parallel to Lake Shore Drive. The community area contains part of the famous neighborhood of Bronzeville, a very famous center of African-American culture in the city.
[edit] Neighborhoods[edit] BronzevilleBronzeville is a neighborhood located in the Douglas and Grand Boulevard community areas on the South Side of city of Chicago around the Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois College of Optometry. It is accessible via the Green, Red Lines of the Chicago Transit Authority or the Metra Electric District Main Line. In the early 20th century, Bronzeville was known as the "Black Metropolis," one of the nation's most significant landmarks of African-American urban history. Between 1910 and 1920, during the peak of the "Great Migration," the population of the area increased dramatically when thousands of African-Americans fled the oppression of the south and emigrated to Chicago in search of industrial jobs. Many famous people were associated with the development of the area including: Andrew "Rube" Foster, founder of the Negro National Baseball League; Ida B. Wells, a civil rights activist, journalist and organizer of the NAACP; Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman pilot; Gwendolyn Brooks, famous author and first African-American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, actress Marla Gibbs, the legendary singers, Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls, and Louis Armstrong, the legendary trumpet player and bandleader who performed at many of the area's night clubs. The neighborhood contains the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District.[2] 47th Street was and remains the hub of the Bronzeville neighborhood and in recent years has started to regain some of the former glory of years gone by. Gone though for good is the Regal Theater (demolished in 1973) where many great performers took the stage. During the 1950s and 1960s, a decision was made to replace the "slums" with several straight miles of high-rise public housing projects, managed by the Chicago Housing Authority, essentially isolating and simultaneously concentrating the poor black population in this section of the city. The largest complex was Robert Taylor Homes. [edit] Origins of the nameThe name itself was first used in 1930, by James J. Gentry, a local theater editor for the Chicago Bee publication. It refers to the brown skin color of African-Americans, who predominated that area. It has become common usage throughout the decades[3] [edit] Prairie ShoresOriginally a housing project erected by Michael Reese Hospital in order to provide living quarters for its employees, Prairie Shores is now simply a middle-class community. [edit] Groveland ParkOut of all the portions of modern-day Douglas that were originally developed by Stephen A. Douglas, only Groveland Park survived intact. Its design is somewhat unusual - all homes were built around an oval-shaped park. It is located between Cottage Grove Avenue, 33rd Street, 35th Street and Metra Electric railroad tracks. [edit] EducationThe following Chicago Public Schools campuses serve Bronzeville: Beethoven School, Phillips Academy High School, Bronzeville Scholastic Institute, Chicago Military Academy, Walter H. Dyett High School are schools within this community. Bronzeville is also home to the renowned Illinois Institute of Technology, which is famous for its engineering and architecture programs. It also is home to the VanderCook College of Music and the Illinois College of Optometry; in 2006 the Great Books liberal arts school Shimer College moved into the neighborhood. [edit] References
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