The Willis Tower and the Hancock Building were built from South Chicago steel.
South Chicago is not currently connected to the Chicago "L" rapid transit system. The nearest Red Line station is located 3 miles west, at 95th Street & Dan Ryan Expressway.
Burnside, Chicago
Burnside is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the city's south side. It had a population of 2,254 in 2016. It is also the least populous community area.
This area is also called by locals, "The Triangle", as it is bordered by railroad tracks on every side; the Illinois Central on the west, the Rock Island on the south and the Nickel Plate Railroad (now Norfolk-Southern) on the east.
Originally thought to be part of Roseland and the Chatham communities.
Calumet Heights, Chicago
Calumet Heights, located on the South Side of the city. It is one of the 77 well defined community areas of Chicago, Illinois. Calumet Heights is bounded by 87th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (along 95th Street).
It includes the neighborhoods of Calumet Heights and Pill Hill.
56% of Calumet Heights residents are in the labor force. 83% of those are considered to be employed and 17% to be unemployed.
Calumet Heights is a stronghold for the Democratic Party. In the 2016 presidential election, Calumet Heights cast 7,840 votes for Hillary Clinton and cast 184 votes Donald Trump. Despite this landslide victory, it was actually Clinton's 20th largest margin of victory by percentage points in the 76 community areas she won.
Liza Egbogah
Liza Egbogah is a Canadian health care professional and wellness expert based in Toronto, Ontario. She is also known as a manual osteopath.
Liza obtained a degree in Pharmacology from the University of Alberta in 2003. She also received clinic honors and graduated with a doctorate of chiropractic from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College.
Liza specializes in manual osteopathy and is an expert consultant for celebrities and professional athletes on health matters, injury prevention and safety on the set. Liza appeared on several national TV shows including The Morning show, Global TV, The Social, Marilyn Denis, Cityline, KTLA and the Hallmark Channel as a body and posture expert.
Liza founded "the fix", a manual osteopathy and chiropractic center which is known for working with Hollywood celebrities.
Pill Hill, Chicago
Pill Hill is a neighborhood in the Calumet Heights community area on the South Side of Chicago.
The neighborhood is the more affluent portion of the Stony Island Heights neighborhood that occupies the eastern two-thirds of Calumet Heights. he neighborhood is known for homes with built-in one-car garages and private yards. The region has little commercial development.
Roseland, Chicago
Roseland, located on the far South Side of the city, is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It includes the neighborhoods of Fernwood, Princeton Park, Lilydale, the southern portion of West Chesterfield, Rosemoor, Sheldon Heights and West Roseland.
George Pullman planned a model industrial city built around a factory that manufactured his "Palace" railway coaches.
The much lauded mural "I Welcome Myself to a New Place: Roseland Pullman Mural," by Olivia Gude, Jon Pounds, and Marcus Jefferson, 1988, was designed to unite the predominantly African American community.
The community is known for being one of the most violent of the city with high numbers of gang violence.
Pullman, Chicago
Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas. It is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side. Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop. It is named after Chicago industrialist George Pullman.
Since the late 20th century, the Pullman neighborhood has been gentrifying. Many residents are involved in the restoration of their own homes, and projects throughout the district as a whole. Walking tours of Pullman are available.
Pullman has many historic and architecturally significant buildings; among these are the Hotel Florence; the Arcade Building, which was destroyed in the 1920s. The area is home to churches in Chicago built in Polish Cathedral style, the former church of St. Salomea. It is now used by Salem Baptist Church of Chicago.
In a contest sponsored by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Pullman was one of seven sites nominated for the Illinois Seven Wonders.
South Deering, Chicago
South Deering, located on Chicago's far South Side, is the largest of the 77 official community areas of that city. It is part of the 10th Ward, once under the control of former Richard J. Daley ally Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.
It is an industrial neighborhood, a small group of homes exists in the northeast corner and Lake Calumet takes up a large portion of the area. 80% of the community is zoned as industrial, natural wetlands, or parks. The remaining 20% is zoned for residential and small-scale commercial uses.
Louis Rosen documented the racial transition of this and nearby communities in his 1998 book "The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood".
West Pullman, Chicago
West Pullman is a neighborhood located on the far south side of the Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago. West Pullman is not a part of the historic Pullman company town.
It is bounded on the north by 115th Street, on the east by the former Illinois Central Railroad, on the south by the Calumet River and Riverdale, on the west by Calumet Park, Blue Island and Ashland Avenue.
At the local level, West Pullman is located in Chicago's 9th and 34th wards represented by Democrats Anthony Beale and Carrie Austin respectively.
Riverdale, Chicago
Riverdale is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois and is located on the city's far southeast side.
As originally designated by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago and officially adopted by the City of Chicago, the Riverdale community area extends from 115th Street south to the city boundary at 138th Street.
In 1880, George Pullman began constructing his model city just north of 115th Street.
Currently, the area has the highest "hardship index" of any Chicago community area.
Hegewisch, Chicago
Hegewisch (pronounced "heg-wish" by the locals) is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's far south side.
It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Riverdale and South Deering to the west, the East Side to the north, the village of Burnham to the south and the city of Hammond, Indiana to the east.
The community area is named for Adolph Hegewisch, the president of U.S. Rolling Stock Company who hoped to establish “an ideal workingman's community” when he laid out the town along a rail line in 1883, six years before Chicago annexed the town.
There are approximately 2,550 jobs in the Hegewisch community area.
Under the most recent version of Red Ahead, the Red Line extension plan would reach to Hegewisch.
Chicago Tylenol murders
The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. A total of seven people died in the original poisonings, with several more deaths in subsequent copycat crimes.
These incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter medications and to federal anti-tampering laws. The actions of Johnson & Johnson to reduce deaths and warn the public of poisoning risks have been widely praised as an exemplary public relations response to such a crisis.