Morgan Park, Chicago
Morgan Park | ||
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Community area | ||
Community Area 75 - Morgan Park | ||
Coordinates: 41°41.4′N 87°40.2′W / 41.6900°N 87.6700°W | ||
Country | United States | |
State | Illinois | |
County | Cook | |
City | Chicago | |
Neighborhoods | list
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Area | ||
• Total | 3.19 sq mi (8.26 km2) | |
Population (2020) | ||
• Total | 21,186 | |
• Density | 6,600/sq mi (2,600/km2) | |
ZIP Codes | parts of 60643 and 60655 | |
Median income | $60,747[3] | |
Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services |
Morgan Park, located on the far
History
The community was initially settled in the mid-19th century and known as North Blue Island because of its geographic relationship to the already established settlement of
Both the president and the treasurer of the Blue Island Land and Building Company were executives of the
Because of its ecclesiastical associations (George Walker's father was affiliated with the old University of Chicago and Walker himself would play an influential role in the creation of the present University of Chicago, both of which were founded by organizations with Baptist connections) Morgan Park prohibited the sale of alcohol east of Western Avenue when it was incorporated as a village in 1882 – a ban which stands to this day. The suburb became a city neighborhood when it was annexed in 1914.[13]
Geography
Morgan Park is located south of the Beverly neighborhood and shares a border at 107th St. with Beverly on the north, Halsted St. (north of 115th St.) and Ashland Ave. (south of 115th St.) on the east, 119th St. on the south, and (roughly) California Ave. on the west, as well as Mount Greenwood Cemetery. Beverly and Morgan Park share the same ZIP Code.
Horse Thief Hollow
In the early 1840s, a small section of what was to become southern Morgan Park had an unsavory reputation with the settlers in the region.[14] What follows are the recollections of Isaac T. Greenacre, an early 19th-century resident who settled at the north end of the ridge. The area he describes below is today what is roughly the stretch of Vincennes Avenue from 115th Street to 121st Street:
"On the edge of the hill on which Morgan Park is situated, and a little south, is a deep and exceedingly steep ravine. This in early times was covered with long grass and thick underbrush, and was not only a very discreet hiding place, but a very formidable fortress for horse thieves. These notable gentry were rather nocturnal in their habits, as they traveled during the night and by day were wont to refresh themselves in Horse Thief Hollow. I imagine it must have been a solitary place as the long grass, thick underbrush, and the forest overhead must have entirely excluded the sunlight from it. The farmers are confident of the character of this den, having found in it bags of oats and other commodities which proved the use of the ravine for horse stealing. The bottom of the ravine was trampled into a mire by horses' hoofs, and once in a while they would find a horse shoe. The farmers have watched these gentry and proved to themselves the purpose of their frequent visitations. The horse thieves generally traveled by the aid of a buggy, in which they kept all the utensils necessary for their business."[15]
Rotary International
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1930 | 12,747 | — | |
1940 | 15,645 | 22.7% | |
1950 | 22,618 | 44.6% | |
1960 | 27,912 | 23.4% | |
1970 | 31,047 | 11.2% | |
1980 | 29,315 | −5.6% | |
1990 | 26,740 | −8.8% | |
2000 | 25,226 | −5.7% | |
2010 | 22,544 | −10.6% | |
2020 | 21,186 | −6.0% | |
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As of 2013[update] 54.8% of the residents were black and 37.2% of the residents were white. As of that year it was, within Chicago, the black-majority area with the highest percentage of whites.[18]
Government and infrastructure
The United States Postal Service operates the Morgan Park Post Office.[19]
Politics
The Morgan Park community area has supported the
Education
Chicago Public Schools operates public schools in Morgan Park.[24] Morgan Park High School, Clissold School, and Esmond Elementary School (one of the Chicago Public School's oldest school buildings, having been being built in the 1890s, and added to in the early years of the 20th century and again in the 1970s) represent the public educational institutions that today call Morgan Park home.
Zoned
St. Cajetan and St. Walter, both private Catholic schools, are located in Morgan Park.
History of education
There was a serious attempt made by the Blue Island Land and Building Company to have Morgan Park become a great center of learning, an effort which was successful to a degree in that it brought to the community Morgan Park Academy (founded in 1873 as Mt Vernon Military & Classical Academy), the Chicago Female College (established 1875), Baptist Union Theological Seminary (which relocated to Morgan Park from Chicago in 1877 and where the noted educator William Rainey Harper was granted a professorship at the age of twenty-three[27]), and the American Institute of Hebrew.[28]
There was also an effort made in 1888 to bring the new
In 1988 the Walgreen family donated their home on the ridge at 116th & Longwood Drive to the Mercy Home for Girls.[34]
Morgan Park High School is home to the Morgan Park Mustangs, who are one half of the biggest rivalry in Chicago Public Schools between themselves and the Simeon Wolverines
Notable people
- Attorney General of Illinois (1959-1960). He resided at 10900 South Oakley Avenue in 1952.[35]
- offensive tackle who played professionally for the Denver Broncos in the American Football League from 1965 to 1966.[36]
- Emmet Byrne (1896–1974), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 3rd congressional district from 1957 to 1959. He resided at 2124 West 116th Street while a member of Congress.[37]
- Peter Cetera, former bassist, vocalist and founding member of the band Chicago, lived on Vincennes Avenue when growing up.[38]
- NBA. Dosunmu graduated from Morgan Park High School, played for Illinois, then was drafted by his hometown Bulls in 2021.
- Fred Evans, defensive tackle who played for the Minnesota Vikings.[39]
- Aja Evans, Olympic bobsled bronze medalist in 2014 and World Championships Bobsled Bronze medalist in 2017.[40]
- Paul P. Harris, founder of Rotary International. He lived at 10856 S. Longwood Dr. The home is now owned and managed by the Paul and Jean Harris Home Foundation; affiliated with Rotary International.[41]
- African-American woman to travel in space as part of a NASA crew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour.[42]
- Jeremih (born 1987), recording artist and producer[43]
- Emil Jones, 37th president of the Illinois Senate, born in Morgan Park.[44]
- Jeremiah E. Joyce (born 1943), member of the Illinois Senate from 1979 to 1993. He was a resident of Morgan Park while serving on the Chicago City Council.[45]
- Otis McDonald (1933–2014), plaintiff in McDonald v. City of Chicago, which struck down Chicago's longstanding ban on handguns based on the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.[46]
- Jeremy Rifkin (born 1945), economist, writer and public speaker; founder of Foundation on Economic Trends.[47]
In popular culture
Lena Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun", reminisces about her early life as a married woman with dreams of buying a "two-story house" in the Morgan Park section of Chicago.
References
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- ^ "Citizens to Hail Library Jubilee at Morgan Park - Branch's History Partly that of Whole Area". Chicago Daily Tribune: SW2. April 21, 1940.
- ^ a b c "Community Data Snapshot - Morgan Park" (PDF). cmap.illinois.gov. MetroPulse. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
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- ^ "Washington Heights". Chicago Daily Tribune: 1. April 29, 1869.
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- ^ The Blue Island Land & Building Company (1886). Suburban Homes - Morgan Park. Chicago: American Publication Society of Hebrew. p. 3.
- ^ "Death Claims James Morgan - Millionaire Pioneer of Hyde Park Expires at his home in East End Avenue - TO BE BURIED TOMORROW - Half a Century of his Life Devoted to Business Activity in Chicago". Chicago Daily Tribune: 13. November 27, 1898.
- ^ "EXCITED SUBURBANITES - WASHINGTON HEIGHTS OBJECTS TO FOOTING IT TO THE STATION - Rock Island Proposes to Moving the Dummy Tracks a Half a Mile West - Residents Say it is a Real Estate Scheme and Get an Injunction". Chicago Daily Tribune: 2. December 4, 1888.
- ^ "Metra Rock Island District - 111th St. Morgan Park". Commuter Rail Division of the Regional Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
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- ^ "Morgan Park". The Newberry Library. Retrieved September 2, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Schapper, Ferdinand (1917). Southern Cook County and History of Blue Island before the Civil War. Manuscript. p. 104.
- ^ Volp, John Henry (1938). The First Hundred Years - 1835-1935, an Historical Review of Blue Island, Illinois. Blue Island: Blue Island Publishing. pp. 38–39.
- ^ "Home". paulharrishome.org.
- ^ Paral, Rob. "Chicago Community Areas Historical Data". Archived from the original on March 18, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
- ^ McClelland, Edward (May 6, 2013). "White Flight, By The Numbers". www.nbcchicago.com. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ^ "Post Office™ Location - MORGAN PARK Archived 2011-08-29 at the Wayback Machine." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on April 4, 2011.
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- ^ Palliser, Palliser Company, Architects (1878). Palliser's American Cottage Homes. Bridgeport: Palliser, Palliser & Co. pp. Design 35.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Palliser's Cottage Home No. 35". City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. 2003. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ^ "Morgan Park." City of Chicago. Retrieved on January 11, 2017. Compare this map to CPS attendance boundary maps.
- ^ "Far South" (Elementary School Zone Map). Chicago Public Schools. February 8, 2013. Retrieved on January 11, 2017.
- ^ "Far South" (High School Zone Map). Chicago Public Schools. February 8, 2013. Retrieved on January 11, 2017.
- ^ "The University of Chicago Centennial Catalogues - The Presidents of the University of Chicago - a Centennial View - William Rainey Harper". Retrieved September 5, 2013.
- ^ The Blue Island Land & Building Company (1886). Suburban Homes - Morgan Park. Chicago: American Publication Society of Hebrew. pp. 8–11.
- ^ "SITE FOR CHICAGO'S UNIVERSITY - A Tract of Land Donated by Marshall Field - Money That Was Collected". Chicago Daily Tribune: 6. January 19, 1890.
- ^ Goodspeed, Thomas Wakefield (1916). A History of the University of Chicago - The First Quarter-Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. p. 46.
- ^ Harper, William Rainey (1903). The President's Report - Administration - The Dicennial Publications - First Series Volume 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 215.
- ^ Judson, Harry Pratt (1908). The President's Report - July 1906-July 1907 - With Publications of Members of the University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 11.
- ^ Johnson, Geoffrey and Kaitlin Peterson (November 11, 2011). "The Top Private Schools in Chicago and the Suburbs". Chicago.
- ^ Mullen, William (August 12, 1990). "Mission of Mercy - A home away from harm for boys and girls who want a second chance". Chicago Tribune: 14.
- ^ Howard, Robert (January 7, 1952). "GOP Chooses Beardsley". Chicago Tribune. p. 1 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Lee Bernet Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, database Football. Accessed August 30, 2007.
- ^ Illinois Blue Book 1957-1958 page 92
- ^ Jisi, Chris (December 2007). "The Inspiration". Bass Player. pp. 36–47. Archived from the original on December 1, 2007. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
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- ^ Edwards, Lee (January 22, 2014). "Aja Evans Details Her Journey to the 2014 Winter Olympics". TheChicagoCitizen.com. The Chicago Citizen Newspaper. Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
- ^ Flynn, Carol (August 13, 2019). "Project preserves home, Rotary history". The Beverly Review. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- Tronc. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
- Chicago Defender. Real Times. Archived from the originalon May 22, 2010. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- Sangamon State University. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
- ^ Illinois Blue Book 1975-1976. p. 547. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
- ^ Glanton, Dahleen (April 6, 2014). "Otis McDonald, 1933-2014: Fought Chicago's gun ban". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ Sweet, Lynn. "Denmark's museums are as varied as its herrings", Chicago Sun-Times, August 23, 1987. "While strolling, I heard activist Jeremy Rifkin (A former Chicagoan who attended Morgan Park High School) warn of the dangers of genetic engineering."
- Anderson, Jon (July 14, 2005). "Hilltop mansion holds history of a fellowship; Century-old Rotary International took shape in gatherings at a picturesque and inviting home on the Far South Side, now preserved as a legacy to its founder". Chicago Tribune: Section 2c p.3.
- Paul Harris Home
External links
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