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A neighborhood with great bones and institutions working on its next chapter: one of the Park District’s loveliest early fieldhouses, a college campus with a public restaurant, two L lines, and housing priced for a first foothold.
Halsted and 63rd was once one of the busiest shopping corners outside the Loop, and the neighborhood’s frame is still that of a place built substantial: wide streets, brick storefront rows, and Hamilton Park, whose 1905 fieldhouse is among the earliest and finest of the neighborhood-parks movement. Kennedy-King College rebuilt its whole campus at the historic corner, including the Washburne Culinary Institute and its student-run dining rooms, and community organizations here plant, build and buy with unusual persistence, the Englewood Nature Trail, a rails-to-trails project on an old elevated freight line, among the plans taking shape.
Two Green Line branches and the Red Line serve the neighborhood, a combination few places this far south can claim, and the Ryan is beside it for drivers. Downtown runs about twenty-five minutes by train.
Frame cottages, brick two-flats and greystones, with vacant lots between them that the city has been selling to neighbors and builders at modest prices. Prices here are among the lowest in Chicago, which makes the arithmetic of a careful purchase interesting, and makes inspection everything: our foundations guide, electrical guide and older-homes guide are the required reading, and we will tell you plainly, block by block, what we see.
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