Pockettown: Change and Transformation on Chicago's S. Side

Jon Lowenstein

Freelance

View looking Northwest from 73rd St. in the South Shore neighborhood. The South Shore neighborhood was one of the wealthier and more prosperous neighborhoods that at one time had a thriving Jewish population. By the early 1980's it was almost entirely African-American and today the number of whites are less than 1,000, according to the year 2000 Census.

Jon Lowenstein, "Pockettown: Change and Transformation on Chicago's S. Side," in POYi Archive, Item #45824, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/45824 (accessed April 19, 2025).