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In the mid-1800s, as Chicago’s downtown grew denser and dirtier every year, real estate speculators saw opportunity in the vast expanses of land that were at that time beyond the city limits – including some of the only “hilly” topography in the area, at least by Chicago standards.

It took some time, but new rail lines that linked formerly far-flung areas with downtown turned these plans from speculation to execution, and the truck farms and prairies of the 1800s gradually gave way to neighborhoods and the “Bungalow Belt“ of the early 1900s.


Far Southwest