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Pocket Town Portraits- Matias Matias Purnell, 12, poses for a picture on S. Chicago. S. Chicago was one of the main industrial corridors in this small, tight-knit neighborhood. Today, all the factories are closed and the future remains uncertain as…

Troy poses for a picture at the corner of 72nd and Woodlawn. I have photographed Troy posing for pictures in several locations of his choosing. He grew up in the neighborhood and has raised his family in the Pocket.

One of the last housing projects standing on the State St. corridor on Chicago's S. Side. The Robert Taylor and the Stateway Gardens were built in the early 1950's as part of the urban renewal movement.

A boy plays in Lake Michigan at 63rd St. beach.

A landscape of Hoard Park in the Pocket Town neighborhood on Chicago's South side.

Remains of the Acme Coke Plant at 106th and Torrance on Chicago's Southeast Side. The Southeast Preservation Society has made an effort to purchase and preserve some of the buildings on the site, but this past summer they failed to do so and the…

Many buildings are being bought, demolished, rehabbed by the Comer Foundation. This site across from the school on 72nd St. will be turned into a parking lot for the teachers so the current lot can be made into a playground for the children. The…

Many buildings are being bought, demolished, rehabbed by the Comer Foundation. This site across from the school on 72nd St. will be turned into a parking lot for the teachers so the current lot can be made into a playground for the children. The…

The last house standing on a block on the 8300 block of S. Burley on Chicago’s S. East side.

Willie Jones Sr. was born in Shably, Mississippi and moved to the neighborhood in the late 1950's. He was an institution in the Pockettown neighborhood. He worked at R.R. Donnelly for 25 years until his retirement in 1988. He was remembered for many…