Daley oversaw the construction of the Robert Taylor Homes, the largest public housing project in the country at the time. It replaced the Federal Street slum, a collection of single and multifamily homes stretching from 39th to 54th Streets. It represents vision. It represents what all of us feel America should be and that is, a decent home for every family in every great community. The utopian dream of public housing was shattered by gang violence, intractable poverty, and poor building maintenance and management.
Daley, presided over the demolition of the last remaining building. The most drastic change happened in West Garfield Park, which flipped from 0. Did the presence of the expressway — or the demolition that cleared the way for it — have anything to do with these population changes? Equally, blacks sought new housing opportunities and moved into areas where vacancies occurred.
And David Satter believes the expressway was a major factor in why so many Jewish residents and other whites abandoned the West Side, just as many African-Americans began to move in. It was clear that the area was not going to stay all white. On Jan. Spatz says Chicagoans learned a lesson from the Eisenhower Expressway.
The traffic is still terrible. A lot of people were displaced. As Chicago built more expressways — the Kennedy, the Dan Ryan, the Stevenson — people stopped being so complacent. They complained against demolition and displacement. Protests were one reason why another highway never got built — the Crosstown Expressway, which would have followed a north-south route near Cicero Avenue. Construction of the Eisenhower Expressway, for example, destroyed long-established, flourishing, seemingly permanent Italian and Jewish communities on the West Side, robbing the city of part of its ethnic diversity.
The interstates also sped the loss of business and industry from the central cities because they were either displaced by the construction or lured away by the new business opportunities offered elsewhere by the expanded highway network. Our questioner Jillian finds that a little ironic. The Rev.
Jillian says she was fascinated by what she heard, but sounds eager to continue looking into the question. As it happens, her great-grandparents are buried at Forest Home Cemetery, one of the graveyards where some bodies were displaced by the construction of the Ike. But first, why was the Eisenhower built at all?
A 'Grand Axis' to modernity. They chose to follow the path of Congress Street. The Near West Side. Garfield Park. The area was known as the "Jewish West Side. The Western Suburbs.
Was the highway a factor in white flight? The public's changing mindset. At another Board meeting, a scientist requested money to buy cages for research dogs. Ryan was a dog lover. Ryan suffered from asthma all his life. In the spring of , he showed up at a political meeting breathing heavily. Everyone noticed. That was a Thursday. On Friday the asthma was worse, and Ryan went home to rest.
On Saturday morning he had a heart attack. He was taken to the hospital and died a few hours later. He was Signs for the road were unveiled quietly in March. Name that road: The people behind Chicago expressways. Daley, but was rerouted eight blocks to the east and served as a racial buffer between the neighborhood and the Robert Taylor Homes public housing project directly east of the highway. Twitter MikeRiopell. Skip to content.
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