Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Chatham from Hands on Chicago

This map of Chatham I had scanned from the 1996 edition of The Guide to Black Chicago. I already scanned a description of Chatham from that booklet in October 2008.

Anyway Monday night I scanned the section on Chatham from the book Hands on Chicago by Kenan Heise & Mark Frazel. The book was published in 1987, but a few years ago I purchased an updated 1990s edition of the book.

Consider this book a very short version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago with brief entries on Chicago slang, people, legends, and places. In addition there is a section of the book dedicated to all 77 community areas of Chicago of which Chatham (well community areas are different than neighborhoods, although how much different is a question I can't answer) is numbered at 44. That is the excerpt that I scanned just for you Monday night. It took some work to get it as one image since the section on Chatham went over two pages. For the purposes of citation that pages 229-30.
Click on the scan for a better view!
BTW, you will see a basic experiment near the very beginning, perhaps you might be able to try this to see if it still holds true. Well just find a local phone book (perhaps a white pages) and see how many listings (especially for businesses) that may include the name of the neighborhood. Well the neighborhood name being Chatham, of course. If you attempt this, leave a comment and let me know what you find.
Have fun!

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