I lived in a second floor apartment of a walkup three flat at 63rd and Cottage Grove Avenue right near the University of Chicago. My dad used to take me and my brother to Jackson Park when we were boys (1948) to escape the summer heat and the stench from the Union Stockyards. We used to lay on the grass and dad would point out the constellations to us. By 1952 we had three deadbolts on our doors and the gangs would routinely rattle our doorknob at night trying to get in. We moved out that year. It was a matter of safety. FU Moochell
“I lived in a second floor apartment of a walkup three flat at 63rd and Cottage Grove Avenue right near the University of Chicago”.
Almost my old ‘hood from the 40’s and 50’s. 75th and Coles to 84th and Ada to the fricken hell outta there to Iowa in 1953.