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Chatham is one of the 77 community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the city's South Side. It includes the neighborhoods of Chatham-Avalon, Chatham Club, Chesterfield, East Chatham, West Chatham and the northern portion of West Chesterfield.
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Why we love it. Chatham is a friendly neighborhood filled with rich African American history, distinctive architecture, Black arts and culture, and a culinary corridor lined with locally loved, Black-owned restaurants. All that, plus a neighborly, friendly vibe makes it somewhere you’re going to want to stay awhile.
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Community Area 44, 10 miles S of the Loop. Since the mid-1950s, Chatham has been a stronghold of Chicago's African American middle class. Defined by a jagged boundary lying within 79th and 95th Streets, the Illinois Central Railroad and the Dan Ryan Expressway, Chatham contains one of the most solidly middle-class African American populations in the city, and is home to several of the most ...
Dec 8, 2012 · CHICAGO (CBS) – At one time, Chicago's Chatham neighborhood was one of the best neighborhoods on the South Side -- home to many famous Chicagoans, including Mahalia Jackson. It has seen...
Feb 16, 2023 · Chatham: Jewel of the South Side. February 16, 2023. 01 / 12. Chatham. lies on the south side between 79th & 95th. Over the last ~150 years the area has grown from a marshy swampland to a bastion of Chicago's African-American middle class. [1]
Aug 30, 2016 · Chatham represents the old bastion of black economic mobility in Chicago, where working class folk, political movers and shakers, business people and other professionals have formed the foundation of the tight-knit community since the 1950s.
Chatham is a south side neighborhood that straddles the busy Dan Ryan Expressway. As Chicago has evolved and changed throughout the past half a century, Chatham has been one constant and remains as one of the most family-friendly neighborhoods in the area.
