South Chicago finds new life after steel
South Chicago had been a proud working-class community for a century when the steel industry began a precipitous decline in the 1980s and early 1990s. The USX South Works mill, on the eastern edge of the community, employed 20,000 people at its peak but closed its gates in 1992. Other nearby mills including Wisconsin Steel also closed, leaving a shattered community of brownfields, empty stores and worn out housing.
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Southeast Chicago goes from steel to green 5/6/2009
Where steel once was king, a green economy is beginning to bloom. The Second Annual Green Summit in South Chicago, scheduled for Saturday, offers area residents a snapshot of currently available green, eco-friendly and healthy initiatives designed to enhance the quality of life.
South Chicago toasts soon-to-open senior center 11/21/2008
More than 100 South Chicago community leaders and residents gathered on a sun-splashed morning Oct. 29 for a “topping off” ceremony at the Victory Centre senior complex at 3251 E. 92nd St.
Video: South Chicago teens install mural 11/13/2008
Teenagers from South Chicago worked together to create and install a 90-foot-long mural that addresses gangs, violence and local history. After months of work on a project that started in May of 2007, the mural panels were glued to a wall at 91st Street and Commercial Avenue on Saturday, November 1.
- Claretian New Homes reaches Phase IV 9/23/2008
- Youth internships provide job, life skills 8/29/2008
- Foreclosures spike; communities respond 8/5/2008
- New video captures 'History from the Mill' 7/6/2008
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