Go to the Digital Library top page!


Social Studies





Click here to go to introduction.


Grand Boulevard — Washington Park Tour: Sites C & D
« Back to Tour Map « previous 3 of 10   next »
Site C
At 55 E. Garfield Boulevard is the Good Shepherd Tower, a privately owned seven-story highrise for senior citizens and the handicapped. The first new housing constructed in the area in more than fifteen years, the project was initiated by a black congregation and built by a black contractor, C.F. Moore. Members of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Congregational), 5700 S. Prairie, established a non-profit corporation and secured financing from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under Section 8. The first tenants moved into the building in August 1984, and the formal dedication occurred on June 2, 1985. Longtime property owners in this section of Washington Park who remember Garfield Boulevard's heyday welcomed the construction of Good Shepherd Tower.

Another recent building on the boulevard is the Life Center Church of Universal Awareness (1982) at 5500 S. Indiana Avenue. Every Sunday hundreds of black Chicagoans attend services here to hear Rev. T.L. Barrett preach "the gospel of success."

Site D
Turn left on Indiana Avenue and go eight blocks north to 47th Street. On a clear day Chicago's Loop is visible in the distance. Like Michigan and Wabash Avenues, Indiana was one of the South Side's most fashionable streets. In 1873 the Chicago Times noted that these three streets were "wide, handsome, perfectly straight and level," suitable for housing Chicago's "middle classes and substantial bourgeois."

« previous 3 of 10 next »
 


Need help searching?
Search help


Search eCUIP:

Examples: or
Contact eCUIP!
Contact

Need help?
Help

Return to the eCUIP top page!
Home